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Under the Thumb
...it more contemptuously combative. He put the words in Tweed’s mouth, employed it as his serial punchline through to victory, and the Times echoed it. In conjunction with Nast’s accompanying...
Shadows of Forthcoming Events (extract)
...Senator; another rumor had Tweed wanting to be ambassador to England. Comptroller Connolly would continue to hold the fort as the city’s financial boss, while chief strategist Sweeny, rejecting any...
Wholesale and Retail
Harper’s Weekly – September 16, 1871 An even stronger contrast followed two weeks later, as the Big Four made their last appearance as comparative equals. In Wholesale and Retail, they...
“What Are You Laughing At? To the Victor Belong the Spoils”
...had secretly resigned as Commissioner of Public Parks six days before the election, but withheld that news and its effective date until after the returns were official. If there was...
Something That Did Blow Over — November 7, 1871
...That Did Blow Over featured the storm that destroyed Tammany Hall. Oakey hung from a teetering column with cash packets dropping from his pocket; Former Comptroller (Slippery Dick) Connolly was...
Can the Law Reach Him — The Dwarf and the Giant Thief
Harper’s Weekly – January 6, 1872 After Tweed resigned as Commissioner of Public Works on December 28, 1871, he faced criminal charges. The primary question on many lips was whether...
The Tammany Tiger Loose
...Loose was probably the second-most impactful cartoon he ever drew, and among the tops in American political history. (The most influential was Compromise with the South. See Civil War Cartoons.)...
The Last of the Four
...Marseille nine years later. Peter “Brains” Sweeny hated public appearances of any kind, especially in courtrooms, and fled to Montreal in December. From there, he eventually joined his brother James...
Tweed-Le-Dee and Tilden-Dum
...English and unfamiliar with the case, they assumed that the fugitive was guilty of kidnapping the two small urchins in the cartoon, and arrested him and his companion William Hunt....
Another Whale — Jonah Case
...The compressed Tweed actually lost more than 100 pounds on his two trans-Atlantic voyages, mostly from sea-sickness. In the same issue, Nast and Harper’s gloated by re-printing the Tweed-Le-Dee and...