The era of patronage mongering in the petty offices ceased suddenly, and the spoilsmen had the right to say that in this respect the policy of McKinley had not been followed.
It must have made the spoilsmen chuckle and the friends of civil service reform squirm.
The seed of the birth of the Progressive party of 1912 was sown by that feeling of Theodore Roosevelt of the difficulty to do much “between two sets such as the spoilsmen and the mugwumps.
Of course, however, my political life is but an interlude--it is quite impossible to continue long to do much between two sets of such kittle-kattle as the spoilsmen and the mugwumps.
Sidenote: =Fights spoilsmen of all parties=] He served as Civil Service Commissioner for four years under President Harrison and for two years under Grover Cleveland, a Democrat.
It took away from the spoilsmen a few thousand government positions, but it formed no check on the practice of rewarding party workers from the public treasury.
In excluding spoilsmen from public office, the reformers were, in a sense, engaged in a negative work: that of "keeping the rascals out.
The movement then gained ground slowly and the spoilsmen began to foresee that if it spread to the extent which seemed likely, it would deprive them of much of their clandestine and corrupting power.
With both feet caught in the man-trap, the Gentle Shepherd was suffering much pain, but Truth is so great a stranger to spoilsmen that he found difficulty in getting within speaking distance of her.
This he urged at all times, and ten years later, when he was himself President, he added more than fifty thousand offices to the list of those which the spoilsmen could not clutch.
By these and similar spurious questions the spoilsmen hoped to get rid of the reformers.
When the spoilsmen failed to get rid of the Commission by ridicule and by open attack, they resorted to the trick of not appropriating money for it in this or that district.
The spoilsmen were in strength, but they were prudently slow in persuading themselves that the Greeks were unarmed, and incapable of defending the Church.
Cox, Secretary of the Interior, who had found it necessary to resign his office because he could not purge his own department of spoilsmen and incompetents foisted upon him by Senators and Representatives.
All the most corrupt spoilsmenof either side are either with him now or preparing to go to him.
Do we condone the offenses of our grafters and spoilsmen by remaining silent regarding their crimes?
His revolution is seldom more than a violent squabble among greedy spoilsmen for control of the loose-jointed administration.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spoilsmen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
