Above all else, the cartoons were having an effect on the public, and on Tweed personally. "Let’s stop them damned pictures," Tweed supposedly said. "I don’t care so much what the papers write about — my constituents can’t read — but damn it, they can see pictures!" Tweed offered Nast a bribe of half a million dollars to stop his cartoons; Nast rejected the offer, and went on drawing.
Tweed was arrested and charged with forgery and larceny in 1873, and he served two years. He then faced civil charges: a suit from New York for $6,000,000. Although technically in jail, he was allowed daily visits out to be with his family, and on one of these visits he escaped to Europe. The pleasure of living abroad was short-lived: he was arrested in Spain after a ship's hand recognized him from a Nast cartoon. Extradited back to New York, he died in prison on April 12, 1878.
Reading the wiki article on Tammany Hall is disgusting. They have had to go all in on praise because it was the democratic party in New York.
Is there a "Based" version of wikipedia with a more palatable, honest, truthful version of the Tweed writeup?
Try this https://www.conservapedia.com/William_Marcy_Tweed
Dems have always hated memes
Yea, what do you think all the censorship is about?