“ The recently formed Republican Party, coming into control of the New York State government, strategized a means to break the Mayor’s & the Democratic Party’s control over the city…
Rep v Dem - The original Old Firm…
The new New York legislature…
“…hardly any less corrupt, but never loath to do the metropolis a bad turn…”
…form the Metropolitan Police Force covering the entirety of the city & decide to decisively dissolve the Mayors Municipals…
Don’t think so!
Night-Mayor!
Mayor Wood’s boys, unsurprisingly, ‘cock a deaf-un’ & carry on regardless…
…That’ll not go down well with the toffs !