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.
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.
Since 1904 the public school system has been administered by a non-partisan Board of Education chosen from the city at large, and not by wards as theretofore.
