Bosses and Boodle in Ohio Politics: Some Plain Truths for Honest People (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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The preacher has said that TO everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heavens; a time to keep silence and a time to speak! This is an Opportune time to speak plainly and bold ly upon the question Of Bosses and Boodle in Ohio politics. Twice within ten years the'people of Ohio have seen their representatives freely purchased; the Legislature has been brazenly debauched; the people have been betrayed for a price; law and decency have been shamelessly violated and wickedly out raged; seats in the United States Senate have been knocked down to the highest bidder, and through the unlawful, profuse, and corrupt use Of money, Henry b.'payne, Of Cleveland, Ohio, and Calvin S. Brice, Of Wall Street, New York City, have secured honors to which they were not entitled. In the case of Henry B. Payne a plea in abatement may be entered. He was not a party to the purchase, but the evils resulting from the debasement of the sworn (v)

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