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Excerpt from Tammany Hall
Ammany, for nearly a century, has con stituted the political agency by which the major mass of the voters of New York City has made effective its preferences in regard to the rule of the city for good or for ill to the worst harvest yet reaped in the wide field of universal suffrage. This ruling organization of adult male voters has sometimes been for years together only a plurality of the voters of the city profiting by the divisions of its opponents, and it has sometimes itself divided by fission, a part pre ferring to use one of the many agencies organ ized in imitation of Tammany but for seventy years there has never been a time at any elec tion when it was not perfectly clear to every unprejudiced observer that a clear plurality of the voters resident on Manhattan Island, pre ferred, other things being equal, to re-elect rulers whose primary selection had been de termined by this political agency.fortunes.
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