civil-service-reform

Updated: May 17, 2025

I think the heaviest piece of work I ever undertook was when, some months before, I had endeavored to convert him to the civil-service-reform forces; but while I had succeeded in converting a good many others, he remained intractable, and on that subject we were at opposite poles.

Andrew Dickson White - Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 1

But he was not big enough, nor strong enough, to contend with the powerful men who were antagonized, especially by his civil-service-reform tendencies. When the Republican convention met in 1884 and nominated a new ticket, it was universally recognized by everybody, including the president, that his political career had closed.

Chauncey M. (Chauncey Mitchell) Depew - My Memories of Eighty Years