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they found it necessary to discredit the reformers. To do this they brought charges that two police commissioners had committed a misdemeanor when they removed an election inspector and they were $250 each. They probably were guilty of the charge but the chief thing of which they were guilty in the eyes of the Wigwam was that they were not members of Tammany.

But Mayor Havemeyer could read the intent of the Boss Controlled political society and in 1874 he wrote to Governor Dix:

"All the corrupt elements have, as if by instinct, struck hands together to render every man who makes honest endeavor for good government odious. And the elements thus arrayed are formidable. They embrace machine politicians of both parties; the numerous adherents of the late corrupt ring against whom prosecutions are pending, and to be brought, to compel restitution of millions of money plundered from the Treasury; the still more numerous class holding fraudulent claims against the city to the amount of millions more; the army of contractors, who look for subsistence to the prosecution of extended public works and the consequent increase of public debt; and with these the numerous horde of lobbyists and adventurers accustomed to be fed, directly or indirectly, out of the public crib. All these play the same game, which is to foster a

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