Four Lost Legacies of the Early New England Civil Polity I the Old Colony Refe
Four Lost Legacies of the Early New England Civil Polity I the Old Colony Refe
Bacon Leonard Woolsey
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In 1886 a powerful movement to overthrow it drove the Tammany wigwam to the desper- ate expedient of nominating an honest man (Mr. Hewitt) for Mayor. When a corrupt party nominates an honest man, it is a sign of woe indeed. Everything portended a Waterloo defeat for Tammany, for the opposition of good citizens was solid. The only hope of the thieves lay in dividing the opposition. Just then a brilliant and en- thusiastic young Republican was induced no doubt by the best of motives to put himsel...f at the head of a "straight " Republican ticket ; and Tammany was saved ! The vote against Tammany was, in round numbers, 130, 000, to 90, 000 in its favor. But the patriotic young Re- publican had succeeded in splitting the opposition vote nearly in the middle, and Tammany, condemned by a hostile majority of nearly 40, 000, held control of the great city, saved, in its hour of peril, by the sagacious management of Mr. Croker, aided by the undoubtedly con- scientious partizanship, I regret to say, of Mr.
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