Excerpt from The Merit System and the New Democratic Party: AddressThe League congratulates itself on the strength throughout are country of the movement in favor of the commission form of government in cities, and of the movement in favor of a short ballot, and welcomes with the utmost cordiality the strong support which both these movements bring to the cause of civil service reform.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.