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A Wonderful Biography

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Parent Issue
Day
18
Month
October
Year
1893
Copyright
Public Domain
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The New Vork Evxsnlng. Telegram, ;i democratie paper, glvea tfae [oöownir iiirinn'ici.n'U-al blography of Richard Ctoker, bbe great Tamïnanj I tlic .uriiri-.ii controller ui democratie politics n New York, and the greatesl "atatesmaa" i tiiat party In tho cast : 1848- Born in Ireland. Isj-J - Game to New York city. lSSa 8- Attsnded public h.!oo1 more or 1856-6C- Worked for Harlem Railroad machlne shop 1860- Beoame ] nlneiit as the besfrougn an.l tumble " tiuhtiT in the Twenty-flrat wind. ,tcl Richard Lynch at a Suiiday prlze fiL'hi Eo Jones' w muis. I867--Elected Alderman Elghteenth Assembly dlsti ii-78- Klected Coroner. 1874- iDdlcted for murder of James McKenna. Charge nol proven. 1876 Re-elected Coroner. 1879- Defeated for Coroner. IHBS- Elected Alderman and apioiuted Km( ommlssloner. 1884- Sheriff Grant gave ('roker's daufin.ooo because the chlld is hia joddaughter and (.'roker was poor. -Leader oi rammany Hall. 1889- Appolnted t it.v Chamberlaln. ]?90- Reaitrued ftí City chamberlain. I8WJ 'nul JiW.OOO cash for race horses. Bought farm in Richfield Sprlngs ior Jloo.uoo and resldenoe In New York for Nr.iHxi. 1S9S- Bought nnirc race horses. Paid I3S0,WK) ior hu f interest In breedlng farm mar NashTllle. Tliis hlstory is interest ing in more iv;iys than uní. It not only (lejniKiist ril I es tliat t'i SUCCeed in il'iii(iri-atir potltlcs in Xow York City, one miist be bwrn in Ireland, but he must ateo 1h' a pagtllst, a prtze Hgiiter ; aod i ■ have been indlcted for murder n-ivcs .-, magniiicent promlnence that tnakea suscew eulmoet certaia. llnn n-oiiil the Tfk'ST.-un must hnf is Tanim.-my brave ; it'.s pugilist; is u iiniiiT.u] "sta-tesman"; its Imperta] bts ; wtioee brlght bralns Ji.ivc Iniumlit him suuli suildcn great ri:-lics ! Ii men Hke tliis man can succeed as lilis cinc has in New Yurk, and ptUDr l!lr pèojile .'is he lias. IK)]' 110 llOllcsi man eau oUtiiin snddcn wcalth. exrept hy iiiluTil rincc w glrt) what will beoome i the peopte thm-, simuld rn,ii;iTss pepeal tibe Federal electloo :aw and ttie ballot in New York ity 1k dcprivril of t lic small safe.miai-d tha't may DOW surnmml it ? It is siit-Ji mm as this man CroUcr. iai-kcii by that must eomipt orgaalzatini on the face of the earth, Tammany Hall. ihat' seeks, in ooiijunction wiiii the síMitli. to repeal the Federal electlon law ! WU1 tin' people wakr ui to thelr dangier, or will thcy sleep, and be robbed ? Ibey want t repeeled bo that they f:m perpetúate themsclves in power without inifi-ici-fiicc ot hlndrance trom eaiy soupee.

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