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Show A POLITICAL BOSS. Tho following remarks made by Jo-soph Jo-soph H. Choato at a mass meeting In Carnegie hall, New York, a fow nights ago, ancnt tho political boss, applies very forcibly to our man Koarns. He said: "Wo used to have great leaders whom we were proud to follow, such men as Seward, Greeley and Evarts, men of great brains, of high character, char-acter, of patriotic honor, who only could be compared as giants to pigmies pig-mies with theso little peddlers of ward politics, theso bosses, as they are called. I wish I could get up a good definition of tho word boss. It Is a vulgar word, but thero Is no other word to express tho meaning to which it Is applied. A creature, I should call him, without scruple or conscience, who fills his capacious maw with graft; who feeds his greedy followers upon political garbage gathered from the official flesh-pots and swill palls; who now dictates who shall bo the candidates of tho respective parties for tho great offices that tho people are to fill: And tho members of tho party at largo have no more to do with tho making of the nominations for tltese municipal ofllces than have tho children you find playing in tho streets." |