Word: corrupt
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...allowed to vote for the men who represent them? The injustice exists and there must be some remedy. In connection with civil service reform, what has been the result while Cleveland was president? He had made more changes than was made in any other administration. There are corrupt men in the Republican party but they do not control it. The Democratic party has descrted the American system of protection, it opposes the fitting reward of the very men who made its existence possible, and allies itself to corruption. The Republican party has manfully met and mastered all problems...
...proposition namely the possibility of the vast number of the better class of both Democrats and Republicans, who agrees in the main of holding independent conventions to protest against the candidates of the party before country principle. Such action, he said, alone would defeat the nomination of insignificant and corrupt men in place of the men of ability and high principle. Unless some such action as this shall be taken in New York there is but little doubt but that the influence of Hillism and Tammany will defeat Mr. Cleveland's nomination...
...lost the confidence of the country: Nation, Vol. 51, pp. 375, 393, 413.- (a) It is a notably corrupt party in its leaders Quay and Dudley: N. A. Review, Vol. 150, p. 706; N. Y. Herald, Nov. 3, 1888, p. 8.- (b) Corrupt methods to gain power: N. Y. Herald, October...
...Lynch law is justifiable only in a rude and uncivilized state of society.- [a] Presupposes corrupt or weak courts; e g Vehmgericht: Kohlrausch, History of Germany, 278-285.- [b] Is an evidence of a tendency to anarchy.- [c] Leads the community to neglect its regular system of laws and justice.- [d] The evil in the Louisiana courts must be attacked from within; the mob has not settled the matter permanently: Nation, March...
...present system of party administration is unsatisfactory. a. It leaves the government in the hands of bosses; Bryce II, 96, 98, 102, 118; Forum II, 532; IX, 117. b. Offices are sought merely for the salaries attached; Bryce II, 56, 126-134. c. By corrupt party measures men of conspicuous unfitness are appointed, e. g.; Tweed, Carter Harrison, Judge Reilly O'Dyvver; Bryce II, 117. d. Parties have become an end and not a means; Bryce II, 20; Forum IX. 430-436. e. There are no vital differences between the parties; Bryce...