It is not agreeable needlessly to display on the national.theater the wrongs. affronts and indignities inflicted year after year upon the people of a populous and powerful Commonwealth. Yet I will answer the Senator. It came because the party to which he belongs having gained possession of the political power and government of great cities. and at length of the State itself. having clutched the machinery by which elections are held. the managers and leaders so acted. so polluted and debauched every step in the elective process from naturalization and registration to the count and return of votes. that majorities were trodden under the heelof truculent usurped authority. It came because the democratic party. known in the eastern end of the State by the name of Tammany. was officered and engineered by a band of which Tweed was the bravest and Sweeny the craftiesta band which wielding for years all the powers of the democratic party. and moulding the legislation of the State to assist their purposes. seized by the throat the greatest city in the western hemisphere and subjefted it to the most colossal robbery of modern times. Twentythree million dollars in a few months were stolen. and property and taxpayers were plundered and spoiled year after yeax. ad the money divided in part among individuals to pile up huge private fortunes. and the residue used as a corruption fund in the presence of which the idea of a fair election and a fair count for a time vanished utterly. It happened because this junta made the judges of the courts on Manhattan Island. and the judges of the courts abused their powers on a scale and with a facile swiftness of industry which I might peril my reputation for veracity by reciting. What would Senators say should I state that for twenty consecutive days. on every day. in a single court. thirteen hundred and eleven persons were ostensibly naturalized? What would the Senate think were I to state that tens of thousands were turned out and turned loose as citizens at a rate which rendered it impossible to comply with one. even the briefest. of all the legal formalities required? Yet soit was.
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