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Updated: July 9, 2025
There appears to have been some political-financial mix-up, from all I can learn." "And is he only forty, as the papers say?" "About that, I should judge. Why?" "Oh, this scheme of his looks rather pretentious to me holding up the old gas companies here. Do you suppose he'll manage to do it?" "I don't know that. All I know is what I have read in the papers," replied Addison, cautiously.
"Don't you think you will like that?" he asked his wife, referring to his plans for entertaining. She smiled wanly. "I suppose so," she said. It was not long after the arrangement between Treasurer Stener and Cowperwood had been made that the machinery for the carrying out of that political-financial relationship was put in motion.
The Era Club and the Mothers' Co-operative Club protested and worked against this political-financial alliance. In retaliation twenty-four hours before the election the order went to the voters to defeat the amendment to Article 210, which would have made women eligible to serve on school and charity boards, and they did so.
What his qualities showed him were two things: the alliance of the plutocratic slave power with the plutocratic money power, and the essential rightness in impulse of the bulk of the Southern people. Hence his conclusion which became his party's conclusion: that, in the South, a political-financial ring was dominating a leaderless people, This was not the truth.
To discredit starving men on strike, to defeat socialists in an election, to promote a political intrigue, to throw the entire legislature into the hands of the reaction, to conceal corruption, or to take the public mind from too intently watching the nefarious schemes of a political-financial conspiracy for all these and a multitude of other purposes thousands of secret police agents are at work.
He said afterward that political-financial scandals were arousing popular anger and that it was necessary to thrust the sword into the heart of public powers, since they could not be conquered peaceably. In order to carry out his plan, he went to Palais-Bourbon, and, when the session opened, Vaillant arose in the gallery to throw his bomb.
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