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TAMMANY

Tammany Tiger
Illustration by Thomas Nast, Harper's Weekly, November 11, 1871

I should think that any humane and honest person would rather be convicted of one robbery and one murder than become a cold and deliberate confederate in wholesale robbery and wholesale murder by voting a Tammany ticket. Certainly, if anything is proven up to the hilt, Tammany's financial history and health statistics of 1901 prove that Tammany's especial and remorseless trade is wholesale pillage and wholesale destruction of health and life.
- Letter to the Women's Municiple League, published in The New York Times, October 16, 1903

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