Thrity years of New York politics up-to-date .. . so as to help prepara-tions for the ensuing Presidential campaign. But, as Burnssays: The best laid schemes of mice and menGang aft agley. Ere six months had- passed, Tweed and his confreres, sopotential at the period referred to, were routed, dethroned,destroyed; and by reason of the wide influence of the ex-posed rascalities of Democratic office holders, the Demo-cratic vote not only in this City, but in this State, wasthoroughly demoralized, and in the Legislature that waselected in 1871 instead of there being seventeen DemocraticSenators, t
Thrity years of New York politics up-to-date .. . so as to help prepara-tions for the ensuing Presidential campaign. But, as Burnssays: The best laid schemes of mice and menGang aft agley. Ere six months had- passed, Tweed and his confreres, sopotential at the period referred to, were routed, dethroned,destroyed; and by reason of the wide influence of the ex-posed rascalities of Democratic office holders, the Demo-cratic vote not only in this City, but in this State, wasthoroughly demoralized, and in the Legislature that waselected in 1871 instead of there being seventeen DemocraticSenators, there were only seven ! But, had not this upheaval taken place, had Tweeds am-bitious purposes been carried out as foreshadowed, and hadConnolly taken a notion to swap the position of Comp-troller of the City of New York for that of Secretary ofthe Treasury under President Hoffman, the Astors, theYanderbilts, the Goulds and the Kockfellers would nodoubt have been very small potato millionaires com-pared with the great and glorious Slippery (Kedrawn from Harpers Weekly. By permission.) A. Oakey Hall. I LETTER Vi. Extending New York Tactics to the Suburbs—How GrREEitMet Greek at Highbridgeville—Proposed Attempt ofRuffians to raid a Primary Meeting Checked by aLoaded Cannon—Colonel Mooneys Victory and HowHe Became Master of the Situation—A Square DealTHAT Was Not Intended—How the Colonel Beat the Machine at Its Own Game. My dear Dean : The methods of Kew York City politics and poli-ticians, which are such a marvel to foreigners, such a mys-tery to people generally who have never assisted therein,and which I endeavored to explain in a preceding letter,can perhaps be best understood by the introduction of a fewinstances, of actual occurrence, to furnish practical illustra-tion of some of the incidentals of * machine work. When the inventor of a new device in mechanism desiresto show the merits of his invention, he always aims to makethe test of its efficiency under t
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