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Politics and the Gilded Age

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The Era of Good Stealings• 1871 – Tweed destroyed by New York Times– Published irrefutable evidence of Tweed’scorruption– Tweed offered NY Times $5 million to not publish<strong>the</strong> evidence, but <strong>the</strong>y did anyway• Cartoonist Thomas Nast also attacked Tweed– Also offered bribe to stop cartooning, but herefused it– Complained that his followers (who couldn’t read)turned against him when <strong>the</strong>y saw “<strong>the</strong>m damnpictures”• Tweed prosecuted by New York attorneySamuel J. Tilden <strong>and</strong> died behind bars

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