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...Committee for New York City; Joseph L. Valentine '98 of Chicago, Illinois, banker and former president of the Associated Harvard Clubs; Samuel Cabot '06, of Boston, manufacturing chemist; George S. Franklin '02, of New York City, lawyer; Charles E. Perkins '04, of Santa Barbara, California, former railroad official; Harrison Tweed '07, of Montauk, New York, lawyer; Francis A. Harding '09, of Chestnut Hill, manufacturer; Sinclair Weeks '14, of Newton, Mayor of Newton; Robert Cutler '16, of Brookline, lawyer; George S. Franklin '02, of New York City, lawyer...
...number of relatives to whom he flung the bounteous purse of the city pay-roll was declared, after investigation, to be 39. And the thirty-nine McQuades have occupied and will occupy a foremost place in the annals of municipal government in America, rubbing shoulders with their fellow townsmen, Tweed and Croker, Walker and Mugs O'Brien...
...saint, the labels varying according to the speaker. O'Brien is busy pleading for fair play and no quotations; Laguardia occupies himself in smearing his two opponents with the same Tammany brush; and McKee spends his time replying to Judge Seabury's attacks. This is all according to Tweed; but Holy Joe McKee injected an interesting sideshow to the three-ring circus yesterday when he brought out masses of evidence to prove that Laguardia was in thought, and in deed a true Communist of the most virulent sort. By a chain of irrefutable logic he showed that since Comrade Fiorello...
...appeal, I have been asked to be a candidate for Mayor. . . . One and all protested against a leadership that has shattered the city's credit and made the people of this city bow their heads - an arrogant leadership of stupidity and corruption, unmatched since the days of Boss Tweed. . . . There is no real Fusion in this campaign. The so-called Fusion standard bearer is as objectionable to the solid element of our Republican citizenry as he is to the vast army of Democrats who are disgusted with machine politics. ... As Mayor, I shall be absolutely free from political domination...
Dana's years as editor were the years of the nation's lusty westward expansion and of governmental corruption from Washington down to the meanest village. From his famed corner office, piled high with books and newspapers, he fought corruption with brilliant and penetrating satire, lambasted the Tweed Ring, the Credit Mobilier, the Whiskey Ring. When Pennsylvania's corrupt State Treasurer W. H. Kemble wrote a letter to a claim agent in Washington introducing a self-seeking friend, Dana pounced upon the last line in the latter-"He understands addition, division, and silence"-as the platform...