"Professor Hadley wants ideals in politics–What's the matter with these?" Puck, January 24, 1900.


Political cartoon showing child, representing Puck, pointing at Richard Boss Croker, Thomas Collier Platt, and Matthew Stanley Quay.
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In this satirical Puck magazine cover, political cartoonist Udo Keppler has three of the nation's most famous political "bosses"–Pennsylvania Senator Mathew Quay (on the left), New York City Tammany Hall powerbroker Richard Crocker (seated) and New York Senator Thomas Collier Platt (on the right)–posing as models of the ethical politics advocated by Yale University president Arthur Twining Hadley.

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