Show tho boa aldermen A boodle aldarman is the natural ral out growth and product I 1 of t the 1 he exi exist sa t ing conduct of nl ncr w york city 1 d ta politic sp your you r khod derc is generally the keeper ofa of a gin inlall with a side door for sunday I 1 use mid t nd ii partitioned into which reckless women leti r who lantto to drink m amy t y 4 go j jac lie he is i a contractor making big moncy money cut rut of ity city jobs aad a hd curt contract curtmn mi sometimes 0 esy I 1 JIB is a real reah A emale engaged oni eni red in ill car candying iving on oil the Ili hideous dedus house which is i converting averting o manhattan TIa tiland iid into hito liell ell A forthe for alic poor and building up ft a landed and rent b I 1 lacy tho modest work people and wg c carna carnas s ofner of new york nut ut then forward for office innas biava come to such stich a pass pasq that t it colts too much to got get a norr anon ina ion and lid obtain an election work people can call neither af 1 ord rd the money nor tho ilia time nor kor aoud 0 uld they bi be sure sure of tit clr support falicia fallon woric if they n i 0 0 oat bodle alderm an fl t oath of ili realey rea lIy classes cla teea of city ii laic e gt gete regularly nominated ile he bring brings s together gother to two or three rival committees pays some ome of the committee men and promises places and work to others lie ile is ia nominated lie ile geta eta up big handbill setting forth that lie ho is is a union candidate slid nd all the thrives and scoundrels in his district unite and rush to his hia support lie ile gets get elected beati beatina nr some other fellow of like standing and character and lie ha takes his hi seat scat in the board reidy ready for any theft that may oner offer there have been sessions es siona when there were plenty of big things and the boodle ald camen of those boards have retired rich in money and happy in confidence and respect of their follow fellow citizens it roust must be a year when a business busin cat man in tho the board cannot lay aside a comfortable pile at the end of his tern term the fault lies lias in the organizations of the parties there are robbers alid nd rascals in power those who have made millions out ut of tho the people of the city have control con troll the quiet citizen lias has retired the honest one has become disgusted our city government in the hands of it halls alls and rings has become one vast pandemonium of wrong and infamy the rule of the halls hall threatens the efficiency of popular government and universal suf suffrage fragG it lias has made even these theio incompetent to care for the interests of the people tile the boodle alderman is no worse than the boodle head of the dclark department perhaps not a so bad 1 iio 0 is is not to BO polished polie hed a thief is not often in ill attendance 0 at his hie state committee meetings nor so 0 o frequently it ft guest of cabinet officers and governors ila he however belongs to the same saine system which lias has given us a tweed and a squire and lie gets gels CA chught aught oftener and punished more severely the boodle alderman to future will be it a creature of political romance upon whose good antl vad fortuno interesting int creating fictions cliona ri will be built he may insy figure ure as a 1 liero of knighthood in the novel of the next century encountering alternately in his career startling vicissitudes of success and reverse and occasionally falling ailing into the leaping of tin the grim giants giant who keep the keys of the dungeon at sing ying sing ile ho is a peculiar and let us dushop hops only temporary product ot of our city civia bation rome roys j Dento |