They call that the spoils system.

All right; Tammany is for the spoils system, and when we go in we fire every anti-Tammany man from office that can be fired under the law.

It's an elastic sort of law and you can bet it will be stretched to the limit Of course the Republican State Civil Service Board will stand in the way of our local Civil Service Commission all it can; but say!--suppose we carry the State sometime, won't we fire the upstate Board all right?
Or we'll make it work in harmony with the local board, and that means that Tammany will get everything in sight.

I know that the civil service humbug is stuck into the constitution, too, but, as Tim Campbell said: "What's the constitution among friends ?" Say, the people's voice is smothered by the cursed civil service law; it is the root of all evil in our government.

You hear of this thing or that thing goin' wrong in the nation, the State or the city.