The name of Tammany has long had an evil smell in the nostrils of the country. Its meaning has perhaps been little appreciated outside of New York State. It might perhaps have been otherwise in the future, had not an accident happened. A political boss worked late in his office one night. He went home apparently in the best of health. He slept. At 8:50 the next morning he awakened with a pain in his chest. A doctor was summoned. At 9:30 the political boss was dead. Charles Francis Murphy had passed away. New...
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