Boss Murphy – City of Smoke https://www.cityofsmoke.com New York in History and Anecdote Sat, 26 Dec 2015 02:28:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 Charles F. Murphy, Kingmaker https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1489 https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1489#respond Thu, 29 Oct 2015 03:00:00 +0000 http://www.cityofsmoke.com/?p=1489 Until 1961 Tammany Hall dominated the New York County Democratic Committee. Tammany was among the oddest, most enduring, and most effective political machines in American history: a fraternal and patriotic society, with arcane initiations and ceremonies drawn from white legends of Chief Tamanend, a Delaware Indian. Its members were braves, its officers the Wiskinkie and the Sagamore, and its elders the Sachems. At times, Tammany resembled nothing so much as a Raccoon Lodge of ballot box stuffers. As one parodist wrote:

Tammany Hall's a patriotic outfit, Tammany Hall's an old society. Fourth of July it always waves the flag, boys, But never will it waive immunity. On Independence Day 1905, the braves gathered

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