New York, 1895
So Boss Youngs has all the time been clerk of an Assembly committee at $5 a day!
The New York Sun says so, and names the committee. It has been kept a profound secret.
The people have thought that the Boss was only engaged in lobbying. Whether lobbying is profitable or not, the Boss was cunning enough to lay hold on the state treasury for a sure thing, small, but enough to pay expenses.
Who'd have thought that the Boss would condescend to accept so mean a thing! Last year he wanted to be Chief Clerk of the Assembly. This year the petty place of servant to an unimportant committee gratifies him!
And he worth $100,000! How are the mighty fallen. How mean a pretentious person can be when he can hide it.
—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, April 12, 1895, p. 2.
Monday, June 30, 2008
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