Annie Mathews Quotes
Wouldn't a judge be a "rotter," if he got an appointment for the Supreme Court bench from a district leader for 14 years at a salary of $25,000 a year and then just said "Thank you"?
Her co-leader, Martin J. Healy, was accused of accepting a bribe from a judge in exchange for his appointment. What makes this quotation particularly interesting is the fact that she was speaking before a reform organization, yet it is clear that Mathews herself saw no immorality in party officials accepting kickbacks. One of the major problems in reform was that most of the Tammany Hall leaders and voters had a different morality from the reformers and many genuinely thought that the situation as it existed was only “fair.” Reform, as with civil rights, required a transformation of public opinion and sense of right and wrong. See {626674} for one of her solutions to political corruption.
Annie Mathews, ?, Women’s Suffragette, New York City Tammany Hall District Co-Leader, Register of New York County, Explanation of the expectation from the party machine for a judicial appointment, Speech to the League of Women Voters, April 16, 1931, Quoted in Norman Thomas & Paul Blanchard, What’s The Matter with New York
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See {626675} for her defense of corrupt practices.
She was the first Black woman to be elected to Congress and was the first Black woman to actively campaign for the Presidency
implicit in the weak ethics rules of the U.S. House of Representatives
Scalia had been a close friend of the Vice President. He had recently been taken on the Vice President’s plane and they went duck hunting.
