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DIVISIONBIBLIOGRAPH'C MICROFORM TARGE T\n\nORIGINAL MATERIAL AS FILMED·EXISTING BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD  \nswift,Lucius B.Will1am Dudley Fou1ke of Indiana in the contest for themerit'system;an address delivered before the Rotary club,of Richmond,Indiana,November 20,1925 by Lucius B.Swift.Indianapolis,Kautz StationaryCo.,1927 p,20  \n## RESTRICTIONS ON USE:\n\n Roprodu tions may not be11de without permission from Columbla University Lbraries.              \n# TECHNICAL MICROFORM DATA\n\nFILM SIZE:            mmREDUCTION RATIO:            10:1IMAGE PLACEMENT:IAIAIB IIB  \nDATE FILMED:            5-8-97.INITIALS:                    追  \nTBACKING\\#:                                                                                                  23862   \nFILMED BY PRESERVATION RESOURCES,BETHLEHEM,PA.  \nw  \n# William Dudley Foulke\n\nOf Indiana  \n# IN THE CONTEST FOR THEMERIT SYSTEM\n\nAN ADDRESS DELIVERED BEFORETHE ROTARY CLUB,OF RICHMOND,INDIANA,NOVEMBER 20,1925  \n乙  \n3cx249  \nBY  \nLucius B.SwiftOF THE INDIANAPOLIS BAR  \nTHE KAUTZ STATIONERY CO.INDIANAPOLIS1927  \n丁a.17,143o UA  \n## WILLIAM DUDLEY FOULKEIN THE CONTEST FOR THE MERIT SYSTEM\n\n一  \n## THE ADDRESS\n\nWhen I look over this audience I feel that a miracleis being wrought in this room;a prophet is being hon-ored in his home community;my share is to show whathe did in the Civil Service Reform movement.This is not a written speech.I have here only a listof things done by our guest and so long that I can onlychoose here and there and can give,after all,only anoutline.In considering the size of his job let us reviewthe growth of the spoils system.  \nEvery one of the first six presidents of the republic,Washington,John Adams,Jefferson,Madison,Monroeand John Quincy Adams,was a statesman.They rep-resented all the political parties then in existence,andright there is,for our times,a startling truth—not oneof them felt that he had a right to use any public officeor place for personal or party benefit.The conclusiveproof lies in the fact that during the forty years of theirtotal presidency they dismissed from the public serviceonly an average of one and five-eights men a year.Then came Andrew Jackson who is a national herowhen marshalling his Kentucky and Tennessee riflemen,his Creole battalions,his San Domingo contingent,hisFree Men of color,and his La Fitte pirates and hold-3  \ning them in their tracks until they swept away theBritish line with rifle and cannon at New Orleans andagain when later defying thefirst assault of Nullifica-tion.But it was a doctrine with him to reward hisfriends and punish his enemies;and the report spreadthat he would do it with the civil service.At his in-auguration Washington swarmed with place hunters;a mob poured into the White House and at one time hisfriends had to form a rampart around him to preventhis being crushed against the wall of his own receptionroom.  \nThen he began what we have come to call the “cleansweep.”Up to that time men had 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