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The Daily Dispatch: November 19, 1863., [Electronic resource], A furious Onslaught on Mayor Opdyke, of New York, by Thurlow Weed. (search)

h a profitable gun contract. And when the rioters burned the gun factory, his Honor the Mayor had nothing to do with getting a prompt allowance of over $200,000 from the city, without going through the process to which ordinary claimants are subjected. Mayor Opdyke get offices and jobs "fairly" and executes them with "fidelity." Mr. Spenlow, the eminent doctors commons, solicitor, and "David Copperfield's father-in-law," was upright, liberal, and even generous; but his partner, Mr. Jorkins, was a grasping, miserly skinflint. Mayor Opdyke has had no sleeping or silent partnership"no "shoddy" interests ! He did not infest Quartermaster Vinton's office, competing with the Jews for "unclean drippings.?" Not he ! Catch him at that, if you can ! Look into the open, fresh, manly face ! Do you discover anything sinister or sordid there ? By no means. It is his partner, Jorkins, with the "hang-dog look," who gets gun contracts, furnishes "shoddy," and hides away in convenient plac

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