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Political Bosses Scheme to Buy Mayoral Race
Horrigan pushes political power through Wainwright a financier offers cash and stock in Borough Street railway to secure a perpetual franchise while backing a young outsider Alwyn Bennett as mayor promising reform rhetoric to placate the public and win the election with a calculated stake in city transit.
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Mr. Wainwright
Horrigan
Phelan
Gibbs
Alderman
Dick Horrigan
Wiley
Goodby
Wainwright
Mr. Gibbs
Judge Newman
Borough Street Railway
Blank Avenue
Dash Street
River Front
City
Borough
Board of Aldermen
Denis
Miles
Borough Stock
Millons
Thompson
Sawyer
Ten Broeck
Fourth Ward
Bennett
Alwyn Bennett
Lorimer
Mr. Bennett
Dallas Wainwright
Perry
Mr. Near
Alwyn