One mode of the misappropriation of public funds is avoided when appointments to office, instead of being the rewards of partisan activity, are awarded to those whose efficiency promises a fair return of work for the
compensation paid to them. To secure the fitness and competency of appointees to office and remove from
political action the demoralizing madness for spoils, civil-service reform has found a place in our public policy
and laws. The benefits already gained through this instrumentality and the further usefulness it promises entitle
it to the hearty support and encouragement of all who desire to see our public service well performed or who
hope for the elevation of political sentiment and the purification of political methods.
President Grover Cleveland
Second Inaugural Address
March 4, 1893
Given his sentiments in his inaugural address, President Cleveland would have been a critic of which U. S. President?
A)
Andrew Jackson
B)
Thomas Jefferson
o
James A. Garfield
D)
Franklin D. Roosevelt