"I don't care a straw for your newspaper articles; my constituents don't know how to read, but they can't help seeing them damned pictures."
— William M. Tweed

January 1, 1970

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PrisonersMembers of the United States House of RepresentativesPoliticians from New York CityState senators of the United StatesFraudsters
Original Language: English

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On the political cartoons of Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly, as quoted in "Article IV: An Episode in Municipal Government" by Charles F. Wingate in The North American Review (July 1875), p. 150