"Then you know that he has said, categorically, that I did not let him go because of his attacks on the Tweed Ring."

Why not have The Times expose the Tweed Ring?

Tammany's shenanigans did not end with the breakup of the Tweed Ring.

He was alleged to have been part of the vilified "Tweed Ring".

The project derailed when the Tweed Ring won control of the city government.

The Times's sense of its own responsibility resembles the classic cartoon of the Tweed Ring.

And after 1871, when The Times led the crusade against the Tweed Ring, no politician could afford to ignore it.

The Tweed Ring siphoned off millions from public-works projects and sales of city bonds.

He was a member of the Tweed Ring, and was admitted to the bar without studying law.

He entered politics joining the Democratic Reform movement against the Tweed Ring.