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Title: Thrity years of New York politics up-to-date ..
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Breen, Matthew P. (Matthew Patrick)
Subjects: New York (N.Y.) -- Politics and government New York (State) -- Politics and government. (from old catalog)
Publisher: New York, The author
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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hat most of the members expect that Ishould say a few words before the adjournment of this meeting. It isproper that I should. It has been said that Mr. Kelly has been deprivedof the office he held as Comptroller. He can live without it ! If therois any man who thinks it is a matter of much consequence, I wouldassure him that it is not. While I held the position I discharged myduties faithfully to the city, and to the Democratic party which placedme there, and my record in that office is proof of the fact. MayorCooper admitted, before the Senate Investigating Committee, that hehad been elected by the Kepublicans and a faction of the Democ-racy, and felt that he should give representatives of those factions posi-tions. What an humble, what a degraded position for a man to confesshimself in ! Physiognomists say that Ihe shape of the head and face de-termines the character of the man. If that be so, let any man look atCoopers face, and he will see what he is. I believe with the old Sena-
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(Ufilrawii Irom Hni;)cis Weekly. By pcTiiils.ilDn. Copyifelit, is;7, l)y Harper & Hriitliers.) John Kelly, WAR DANCE BY THE BOSS. OJlt tor, who refused t> vote for a General who partid his hair in themiddle. Mc Cooper has not common honesty ; he has surroundedhimself with some of the worst scoundrels in the City, and has ap-pointed men to office who were unfit to fill any place and are a disgraceto humanity. In the Board of Aldermen we had four traitors whobelonged t) Tammany Ilall. A look at those men will show theircharacters. But Kelly ought to have looked at them before lienominated them. Kelly then mimicked the raauiicr ofwalking and talkinsj of the four Tammany Aldermenwho had voted for the Mayors nominees. The mimicryprovoked hearty laughter. He proceeded : One of them waddled around like a duck in this manner (walkingaround the platform in a swaggering, rowdyish way), and like a duckhas his head always down, ready to pick up anything out of the gutter.Another of them ha

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