Word: blackmailed
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...hyphenates saw their cause attacked and felt they were playing "a losing game." They felt something must be done to down the Loyal Coalition. They first attacked the character of some of its officers in what appears to be a "frame up," a case of blackmail. Next they were sued for money, and finally came the so called "expose" of the Loyal Coalition when a former official of that organization turned traitor and joined the Hearst papers in their recent attack on March 6. The first attack on the Executive Secretary seemed to have fallen flat. The same case...
...treaty. Then also the power of patronage is never so great as at the beginning of an administration, when a new president asks that a treaty be ratified. Nevertheless the minority senators are fighting on the side of the American people in preventing the secret passage of a "blackmail" treaty which does meet with public approval...
These union grafters, with their $10,000 salaries apparently added to by heavy bribes extorted from the contractors and corporations, have supplied the real sensation of the building trades investigation. Against such a system of blackmail as that which they put in force, the "hated capitalist" was bound to react. He reacted too far in seeking to prescribe union labor by the means of combination. But his error and offence in that respect should not throw the Lockwood investigation--or the Congressional--inquiry which is to follow--off the scent of the real and capital offence, which is the corruption...
...McAdoo suggested that the best way to make an ideal police force in New York City would be to make it independent of politics, to separate the detective and the patroling branches of the service, to reduce the graft, blackmail, and mismanagement of officials, to make promotion in the ranks depend upon personal merit only, and to use some method whereby each policeman would keep to his beat. Finally, he said, that unless the good predominates and the morartone of the majority is good, laws are in vain...
...rebuttal. He showed that lax enforcement of the law would not necessarily insure Mayor Low's return to office next year. The great principle of the reform administration is reform and nothing else will satisfy those who elected Mayor Low. But even if defeated Mayor Low should not commit blackmail by promising to connive at the law in return for votes. The principle advanced by the negative is one of local anarchy. The statute says that the Mayor shall enforce the law and the people have declared themselves in favor of enforcement. There is therefore but one course open...