A subsequent paragraph stated clearly that this was not meant to introduce the 'spoils system,' but to apply only to the heads of departments and to the other members of the Executive Council.
I may mention the occupation of the best lands by white settlers, with or without our consent; the ration system; and the "spoils system" as applied to the appointment of our superintendents and instructors in farming.
Civil Service under Washington and Adams; under Jefferson; "Spoils System" in the; reform of the.
Even the "Spoils System," whatever its evils, tended to strengthen the Elect of the People.
This action, which inaugurated what is called in America the "Spoils System" and has been imitated by subsequent Presidents down to the present time, is legitimately regarded as the least defensible part of Jackson's policy.
These details of the establishment of the "spoils system" in New York politics seem necessary to be told, that Van Buren's own participation in the wrong may be fairly judged.
For it must be remembered that the "spoils system" was not then offensive to the more enlightened citizens of New York.
During the same years there began an extension into federal politics of the "spoils system," which has been an evil second only to slavery, and from which we are only now recovering.
This "spoils system" which Jackson inaugurated has proved fatal to all dignity of office, and all honesty in elections.
He regarded the measure as a part of the "spoils system" which marked Jackson's departure from the policy of his predecessors.
For many years the course of politics throughout the country had been preparing and foreshadowing the advent of the "spoils system.
President Hayes also tried to lessen the evil of the "spoils system.
In time this became known as the "spoils system," because in a speech a senator talking of this matter said, "to the victor belongs the spoils of the enemy.
But in spite of all this worrying the new President determined to do what he could to end the "spoils system," and appoint people only for the sake of the public good.
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