New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-04-09
THE .fN~TSPOILS LEAGUES UORh.

PUSHING \ IoPt'fAR MOVEMENT IN ALL THE
STATES SOME OF THE WORKERS
The National civil Service Reform League has
Initiated n popular movement toward the abolition
Of the spolls system great enrolment OF the
voters Of the country who favor administrative re-
form has been undertaken. the work hlyins beeh
recently begun by end now being carried on from
the Office % the league. 80 !! Wliam-st The IN
mediate purpose OF ,nis enrolment is 10 form a
s.ug.r popular ORGANIZATION. working into every
STATE arI having for rs members every person en-
rolled This organization viii then he'rsed as 81
;ectlvely as possible IN the effort toward the Aool-
ti,u ~ The sool's system under the National. state
and local governments. II T. - be known a. the
An,l-spols LEAGUE with Car! schlrz a. president
Wu:iam Potts secretary. ana Colonel SI,as W. Burt
treasurer.
The civil Service Reform League. which has be-
gun this movement. has active membership al
present Of about five thousand, divided among TWEEN
tythrce resolutions and smaller leagues. Its p7ln-
c,pal centres are at New York. Brooklyn. Boston.
BlrIa.o Philadelphia, Baltimore. indianapolis. chi
cago AMI 81 Louis Each Of these i've thousand
members has been enlisted In the missionary work
" the movement, nj the outset IL Is being carried
on through a number Of active agencies ami with
all possible expedition. A signature to a card b.
voter IS all that f. required - secure membership
In the league.
There are already almost ten thousand names en-
rolled Including many OF the men foremost III
every wax OF NE Every State AMI Territory -
rcfrrsrnted About seventy thousand addltoAh!
cards are in the hands Of those who are securing
slguntures The secretary Of the league VIII giadIN
furnish To- any writing him numbers or me
carls or explanatory literature Among those VINO
pre actively engaged I'm the work are Richard W vat
son Glider Jamcs G. carter. Henry Charles Lea.
Seth Low J. c. Schurman. Wheeler II. Peckham.
Richard Henry Dana william Dudley Fnu!He. Sh'r-
man : Rogers Il Fuiton Cutting. Theodore Roose-
vii Alfred r White. oscar r Straus. stephen u.
Elkins. Edward Atkinson. -. {. Gilman william
Dean IloTels. Arson Phelps Stokes George Eos
ter Peabody Charles Theodore Russell. tr.. Horace
r. Dening Oswald OttendOrfer. Charles Dudley
Warner William Walter Phelps. Colonel Charles
T. Goldman. William X. Grace Everett T. Wheeler,
Hugh : Thompson. william g. Low. Abram :.
Hewitt James I'enifnOre Cooper Walter II. Page,
Joseph jefferson William EndicOu tr Robert n
dorwJod Johnson Bishop Henry G. Potter. Edward
Cary H. H. BOycsen. Charles Richardson. Bishop
William {. Doane, Samuel L. Clemens c'Mark
Twain'O Dornan H. Eaton. Frank VI. LOOMS.
William g. Schermerhorn Judge Henry Y. Freeman.
Charles Eliot Norton. General William a. Aiken,
Augustus Hemenway. Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
Colonel Alfred \ Pope George G. Buell.. jr. Angus
tus 81 Caudens. the Rev. Or. Washington GLADDEN..
Samuel !. Barrow. the Rev. DR.. ". :. Rainsford.
Charles j Ronaparte David \. Wills John HarseH
Rhoades General Alexander :. Webb. jonathan
'rrumbull Charles G. Blnney. FREDERICK Law Olm-
s,ed the Rev. Or. Lyman Abbott Merrill f.. Gates,
the Rev. Or. W. y. McVickar. w Bayard Cutting,
the Rev John W. Chadwick. William NJ Sloane.
Joseph u. Glider. Edward H. Coates. Brandcr
Matthews A. Schwarzman. X. NJ. Hunt. Spencer
Trask Wacott Gibbs and Matthew Haze.