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each new arrangement proved to be worse than what had gone before. The chief accomplishment of The Times' exposure of Tweed was the breaking of this ascending spiral. Thievery soon began again, but on a much humbler scale and with con­siderably more caution. And never since has muni­cipal corruption been anything like so enormous, or so flagrant, as in the period between 1868 and 1871. There have been no more Tweeds; but in view of the lessons of New York City's history, it would be rather venturesome to assert that there will never be another Tweed in the future."

"In the fifties and early sixties the dominant fig­ure in Tammany Hall," the Times History con­tinues, "was Fernando Wood, but even then Tweed was doing pretty well for himself. The charter of 1857 had given control of the city's finances to an elective bipartisan Board of Supervisors, twelve in number on which Tweed managed to obtain a dominant position. Corruption, which had always existed in the city government, rapidly increased under the benign sway of this virtually irremovable body, but the golden days of graft began only with the election of 1868, when by wholesale naturaliza­tions at the last minute, the voting of cartloads of repeaters, stuffing of the ballot boxes, and other devices now happily gone out of fashion, Tammany elected John T. Hoffman governor of the state and

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