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Tammany: 1789-1928 Tammany Hall; The Organization; and the Sway of the Bosses By Allan Frankin
Originally published 1928 |
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States. It's a great country. Why, you're not only allowed to vote once but several times if you want to-and they pay you $2 for each vote."
Many of these foreigners, obtaining their only training in citizenship from the agents of the politicians, really and truly thought that paying for votes was an accepted custom in their adopted homeland.
It was in '1868 that the Tweed Ring committed its most extensive naturalization frauds. Tammany, apparently, desired to insure its continuance in power at the November election of that year, for naturalization offices were opened in September in a saloon at No. 1 Centre Street with a branch office at the wigwam on Fourteenth Street. The Naturalization Committee was provided in advance with some forty thousand red tickets on which was printed:
Two judges handled the bulk of the applications
Each of these tickets, when delivered to a Court, authorized the Clerk to charge the naturalization fee to Tammany Hall.
"Please naturalize the hearer.
M. D. GALE,
Chairman Naturalization Committee,
Tammany Hall."
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