deputizes

Updated: July 20, 2026

As long as he "despises politics," and deputizes another to do it for him, whether that other wears the stamp of a Croker or of a Platt, it matters little which, we shall have the slum, and be put periodically to the trouble and the shame of draining it in the public sight.

Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis - The Battle with the Slum