Bosses Quotes
The “thieves” won in the sense that TR was the choice of the vast majority of the Republican voters of the time, yet the party bosses manipulated the convention to deny Roosevelt the nomination. Taft was nominated, and Roosevelt ran on the Bull Moose Party and outpolled Taft, but they split the Republican vote and lost to Democrat Woodrow Wilson.
Reformers attempted to serve a New York Supreme Court writ on McKane to prohibit him from continuing corrupt election fraud practices.
Sullivan was the first political ward boss in America. His ward was the Bowery and Lower East Side of New York City. He served on term in Congress and although he could have served as long as he wished, he found it very distasteful and went back to being a New York State Senator and running his ward where he controlled everything that had to do with politics, government services and even crime. His ward consisted of Irish, Italians, Jews and Chinese whose commonality is that there were all poor immigrants of first generation Americans.
George Barnsedale Cox, 1853–1916, was the corrupt, Republican, political boss of Cincinnati where he amassed a fortune of millions of dollars—hundreds of millions in today’s money—as a city party official in the early 1900s.
He was referring to Senator Roscoe Conkling, the Republican party boss who was Hayes biggest opponent in Civil Service reform. At the time the Congress was the dominant branch of Government and any Congressman or Senator who was strong enough to control a House of Congress was at least equal to the President in power.
Platt was the boss of the Republican Party which controlled New York State, His personal office was at 49 Broadway in New York City. See {622998} for more on Platt power in New York.
See {639178} for Platt’s reaction to the article.
The was able to be elected to Congress without depending in the then New York party bosses and not taking money from large companies and lobbyists. She was totally independent. In 1970 Unbught and Unbossed was the title of her book.
She was writing about the textile mills of Manchester, England in the Industrial Revolution. Workers’ wages were so low that many of them could not feed themselves and their family decently
