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Updated: June 28, 2025
A man living on a woman's illicit earnings is not coddled by ward heelers and let off with light bail, as in certain notorious California cases. He is given the lash and seven years. Such offenders seldom come up for sentence twice. On the other hand, compared to punishments for property violations, the protection of women and children is ridiculously inadequate.
It was pitiful to see how in their ignorance they were unaware of the strongest forces working against them. The talk of all this motley humanity of "good" no less than "bad" women, of steady workingmen, of political heelers, thieves and bums and runners for dives was frankly, often hideously, obscene.
It appeared that these eminent Christian leaders were steadily engaged, North, East, South and West, in doings that would have disgraced so many ward heelers or oyster-shuckers shady financial transactions, gross sexual irregularities, all sorts of minor crimes.
There was free drinks for everybody in town, and bands playing every night, and fireworks, and there was a lot of heelers going around buying up votes day and night for the new style of politics in Espiritu, and everybody liked it. "The day set for the election was November 4th.
This was in Tweed's time when the Common Council was composed largely of the most corrupt ward heelers, and when Tweed's puppet, Hall, was Mayor. Public opposition to this grab was so great as to frighten the politicians; at any rate, whatever his reasons, Mayor Hall vetoed the ordinance.
He's opposed to all the ringsters and to graft of every kind; he's a man of spotless record, clean and pure in heart and mind. His opponent, Major Bounder, stands for all that I abhor; plunder, ring rule and corruption you will see him working for; all the pluggers and the heelers stood by him in this campaign so I ask your vote for Whitehead and the uplift, dearest Jane."
"I don't ask you to talk anything else. But let me keep out of it." "'He's not the man for Galway'," hummed Watts. "He prefers talking to 'heelers, and 'b'ys, and 'toughs, and other clever, intellectual men." "I like to talk to any one who is working with a purpose in life." "I say, Peter, what do those fellows really say of us?" "I can best describe it by something Miss De Voe once said.
In the days when don Ramón had been a young subordinate of the Ayuntamiento, he had met and liked the man, and taking him into the ranks of his "heelers," had promoted him rapidly to be chief of staff. In the opinion of the "boss," there wasn't a cleverer, shrewder fellow in the world than don Andrés, nor one with a better memory for names and faces.
Wasn't it men of that stamp who became the tools for corrupt practices the boodlers, the heelers who did the actual ballot-stuffing, the personating at the polls, the bribing? Did McCorquodale know of what he spoke? The thought brought with it a sense of disloyalty to his uncle; but the young man forced himself to face the idea seriously.
This cannot with propriety be translated a cockpit, as it is generally a spot on the level ground, or a stage erected, and covered in. It is inclosed with a railing which keeps off the spectators; none but the handlers and heelers being admitted withinside.
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