[9] The Century, November, 1886.
[10] Since succeeded every year or two by some other anti-Tammany Democratic organization or organizations.
[11] All this has been changed, vastly for the better, by the ballot reform laws, under which the State distributes the printed ballots; and elections are now much more honest than formerly.
[12] As a consequence of our investigation the committee, of which I was chairman, succeeded in securing the enactment of laws which abolished these enormous salaries.