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Many an anti-Socialist thug and grafter, loud-mouthed and blatant, bellowed revamped platitudes of "immorality" and "breaking up the home," and the "nation of fatherless children," pointing at Gabriel Armstrong as a shining example of Socialist hypocrisy and filth. Press, law, church, capitalism itself nailed this man and the movement he stood for, to the cross.
The temper of the back country is well caught in Howell's lines anent this early American "grafter", the favorite of the royal governor: When Fanning first to Orange came, He looked both pale and wan; An old patched coat was on his back, An old mare he rode on. Both man and mare wan't worth five pounds, As I've been often told; But by his civil robberies, He's laced his coat with gold.
He was a chairmaker by trade, a vulgar good fellow by nature, a politician by circumstances, a boss by evolution, and a grafter by choice. He became grand sachem of Tammany and chairman of the general committee. This committee he ruled with blunt directness.
"Whether we shall ever apply any such intelligence to the possible improvement of our own race as we have in the great improvement of our cattle and corn is, of course, an open question; but to some extent you will agree that the grafter and the insane, like the poet, are born and not made.
He's one of the kind who like this sort of thing, and he goes everywhere. Money is power. No matter how you get it. Once gotten, it's divine. Call the man a thief and grafter if you will, but the laws of centuries protect him. There are no rights now except property rights. I'd like to kick him out of the house.
The speaker looked up to meet the gaze of an iron-gray man with a harsh, sallow face. "Excuse my interrupting," said the new-comer. "Just one question, Waldemar. Who's going to be the nominee?" "Linder." "Linder? Surely not! Why, his name hasn't been heard." "It will be." "His Federal job?" "He resigns in two weeks." "His record will kill him." "What record? You and I know he's a grafter.
They considered it legitimately theirs. It was the barber-shop graft. There were many grafts in that prison, as I was to learn; and I, too, was destined to become a grafter thanks to my new pal. There were several chairs, and the barbers worked rapidly. The quickest shaves and hair-cuts I have ever seen were given in that shop.
The smile with which the Honorable Milton Waring had welcomed the promised change of subject faded slowly. He wagged his head in reproof. "Very foolish of you, Philip to take any notice of that sort of thing. Let 'em talk!" Yet he looked at this nephew of his with a new interest. "Grafter, eh? Didn't believe it, eh?"
We must anticipate them by attaching him to us. I'll see what can be done legitimately, you understand. Perhaps you may have to engage additional counsel some such firm as, say, Humperdink & Grafter. Often, in cases nowadays, there is detail work of an important character that lawyers of our standing couldn't think of undertaking.
But what else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other? It's no place for an honest grafter with a small capital. There's too big a protective tariff on bunco. Even when Giovanni sells a quart of warm worms and chestnut hulls he has to hand out a pint to an insectivorous cop.
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