They typically focused on urban sanitation, better schools, and especially on the need for nonpolitical civil service rules to replace the "spoils of victory" approach by which the winners of an election replaced city and school employees.
They typically focused on urban sanitation, and especially on the need for nonpolitical civil service rules. This was to replace the "spoils of victory" approach by which the winners of an election replaced city and school employees. Urban sanitation was better schools.