Civil Service

We denounce the action of the republican administration in its violations of the principles of civil service by its partisan removals and manipulation of the eligible lists in the postoffice department and other governmental departments; by its packing the civil service commission so that commission became the servile instrument of the administration in its wish to deny to the former service men their preferential rights under the law and the evasion of the requirements of the law with reference to appointments in the department.

We pledge the democratic party faithfully to comply with the spirit as well as the regulation of civil service; to extend its provisions to internal revenue officers and to other employes of the government not in executive positions, and to secure to former service men preference in such appointments.

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Chicago: "Civil Service," Democratic Party Platform of 1924 in Donald B. Johnson, Ed. National Party Platforms, 1840–1976. Supplement 1980. (Champaign-Urbana: University of Illinois), P.248 Original Sources, accessed July 11, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=48UNP7WPJ6YQ65B.

MLA: . "Civil Service." Democratic Party Platform of 1924, in Donald B. Johnson, Ed. National Party Platforms, 1840–1976. Supplement 1980. (Champaign-Urbana: University of Illinois), P.248, Original Sources. 11 Jul. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=48UNP7WPJ6YQ65B.

Harvard: , 'Civil Service' in Democratic Party Platform of 1924. cited in , Donald B. Johnson, Ed. National Party Platforms, 1840–1976. Supplement 1980. (Champaign-Urbana: University of Illinois), P.248. Original Sources, retrieved 11 July 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=48UNP7WPJ6YQ65B.