spoilsman

• “To the astonishment of almost everyone, when Chester Arthur—the quintessential spoilsman—finally took the dead Garfield's place, he discovered that he had principles after all, turned against the system and pushed through the country's first Civil Service Act.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Presidential Malpractice

• “If mental hospitals “can be provided with adequate funds and can be kept free from the slimy hands of spoilsman politics,” observed Overholser, “the psychiatrists of this country may be trusted to raise the standards of the mental hospitals even higher than they are at present.””

  Simon & Schuster: The Mad Among Us

• “But he was certain to be a partisan, a spoilsman, a tool of Tammany Hall and its corrupt boss.”

  Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular Phases of Metropolitan Life

• “Senator Orville H. Platt, of Connecticut; Senator Cockrell, of Missouri; Congressman (afterwards President) McKinley, of Ohio, and Congressman Dargan, of South Carolina -- who abhorred the business of the spoilsman, who efficiently and resolutely championed the reform at every turn, and without whom the whole reform would certainly have failed.”

  An Autobiography

• “The Administration of Chester A. Arthur proved that the President had never been so discreditable a spoilsman as the reformers had believed, or else that he had changed his spots.”

  The New Nation

• “The decision of Arthur to take counsel from the Stalwarts aroused fears among others of the party that his would be the administration of a spoilsman.”

  The New Nation

• “When he became engaged his immediate thought was to find work, and one of his friends secured a position for him in the Boston customhouse, where he weighed coal until he was replaced by a party spoilsman.”

  Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived

• “Another friend obtained for him political appointment as surveyor of the Salem customhouse; again he was replaced by a spoilsman, and again he complained bitterly.”

  Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived

• “Bassett's name had been linked to that of Miles, the erring treasurer, in the "Advertiser's" headlines; and its leading editorial had pointed to the defalcation as the sort of thing that inevitably follows the domination of a party by a spoilsman and corruptionist like the senator from Fraser.”

  A Hoosier Chronicle

• “When silver was the cry every spoilsman took it up, and the fact is that some of the loudest shouting was done by men who cared not at all for the doctrine.”

  The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10

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