Show the doodle boodle aldermen A boodle alderman is is the natural outgrowth and product of the existing condition of things 10 in now new york gity city politics your boodle alderman la is generally the keeper of a gin m mill with a bide aide door for sunday use and a partitioned ox off room into which ree reckless less women who want to drink may go E ische is is a contractor mak ing big money out of city jobs and c contracts 0 sometimes he to is a real e state estate speculator engaged in in carr carrying y ink on the hideous tenement house se system which is is converting manhattan an island into a hell for the poor and building build ioe up a landed an and drent rent receiving aristocracy the modest work people and wage earners of of new york ork seldom put themselves for ward for office things have come to such a pass that it costs too much to got get a nomination and obtain an oleo eleo i tion hon honest est work people can neither afford the money nor the time nor would they illy be sure of the su support liport of their fellow work people it if they ran boodle aldermen a fit mem ber of the really dangerous classes life 1 gets regularly nominated hi ha brings together two or three rival committees committe ee pays soi some aei ol 01 0 the bohi corn cittee men and promises places ind and work to others he is is nominated ho he gets up big handbills hand bills setting forth that thai he is s I 1 a union candidate and ai all I 1 the dieves thieves and scoundrels in in his bia district unite unita and rush to his hia eup support port ile he gets get elected selected boating boat ilig some other follow fellow of like standing and character and he bo takes take his seat in the board ready for any ally theft that way may offer there lucre have been sessions when weri there were plenty of big philip and tho the doodle boodle aldermen of those boards have retired rich neb in in money and happy happ yin i in and respect of their fel 01 low citi citizens zenil it must be a year when a busi business nesa man I 1 in the board can call not lay asija aside a comfortable pile at the end of his bia to term rila the fault lies in the organizations of taio the parties there are robbers and rascals in in power these thega men who have made millions fraudulently out oat of the people of the city have control the quiet citizen has retired ra the coteat 0 ona has disgusted our oar cit city government in 1 the hands ot at halle halla and rings has beco become moone one vast pan of wrong and infamy the rule of tho the halls halla threatens the efti c aenny of popular and universal I 1 suffrage it has made even these incompetent to tare care for the in in ti I oste of the people the boodle alderman is is no worse than the boodle head bead of the department berb opa not io BO bad ha is is not so no polished a thief is is not often in at aneW at his bis state committee Commit teo meetings not cor so 0 o frequently a guest of 01 cabinet officers and governors he however belongs ta the same earna system which lia has ki given DS 8 Is a tweed and a squire a and b be le 0 gets eta caught oftener and punished more severely the boodle alderman to future genera eions will be ba a creature of political romance ts upon whose good and bad fortunes interesting fictions factions will be bd built ho may ligare as a hero of knighthood in the novels of the next century tury encountering alternately alternate in bin big career startling 0 IT of success til aud and reverse and occasionally falling into the keeping the grim giants who keep the keys keya of the dun geon at sing sing he is is a peculiar I 1 I 1 and lot hit us ua hope anly temporary pr pro 0 duct of our oaf city civilization I 1 jimna toyie raft democrat i I 1 |