History of the state of New York, political and governmental; . John McCullagh,who had been chief of the New York City police forcewhen Theodore Roosevelt was president of the Policeboard under Mayor Strong and who had been removedearly in Mayor Van Wycks administration. Thislegislation awakened much criticism, but, howeverpartisan its purpose, it resulted in a great diminutionof fraudulent voting. Profiting by the lesson that he was learning fromthe independents, Piatt began to look about for apopular candidate to succeed Black. He had nopersonal objection to Black. The Governor had beenfaith
History of the state of New York, political and governmental; . John McCullagh,who had been chief of the New York City police forcewhen Theodore Roosevelt was president of the Policeboard under Mayor Strong and who had been removedearly in Mayor Van Wycks administration. Thislegislation awakened much criticism, but, howeverpartisan its purpose, it resulted in a great diminutionof fraudulent voting. Profiting by the lesson that he was learning fromthe independents, Piatt began to look about for apopular candidate to succeed Black. He had nopersonal objection to Black. The Governor had beenfaithful to him, and his occasional manifestations ofindependence had resulted from difference of opinionrather than from difference of aim between Black andthe organization. But the Governor had served theorganization too faithfully to be of further service toit. His unconcealed contempt for reformers, whichsome attributed to cynicism and others to hatred of cant,frightened even those whom it most pleased. Black, 6Lincoln, Messages from the Governors, IX, p. Frank Swett Black Frank Swett Black, 35th governor (1897-1898) ; born atLimington, Me., March 8, 1853; graduated from Dartmouth,1875; editor Johnstown, N. Y., Journal for a short time andread law; later reporter for the Troy Whig; admitted to thebar in 1879; in practice at Troy until 1898 and after that inNew York City; member of the 54th congress (1895-1897);governor of New York, 1897-1898; died, March 21, 1913. 1898] BLACK ABANDONED FOR ROOSEVELT 49 says Piatt, offering no apologies for running a simon-pure party regime, planned a renomination andsecretly nursed a hope that he would land the Presi-dency. But starchless civil service, which putpractically every Democratic office-holder out andinstalled a Republican organization man in his job, theappointment of Louis F. Payn as Superintendent ofInsurance, and other ultra-partisan acts of the Blackadministration, while they popularized it with theorganization workers arou
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