He was especially concerned in promoting a non-partisan civil service.
A non-partisan board composed of citizens who must not be physicians has general control of the city's hospitals and health department.
A non-partisan association for political reform did excellent work from 1890 to 1900, when it was superseded by a nonpartisan party.
Nearly every one of his most glaring non-partisan faults has been exposed brutally and on a massive scale.
By a law of 1907 cities with a population of 25,000 or more may adopt a commission form of government, with a mayor and four councilmen elected at large on a non-partisan ticket.