Thus far the opponents of Mayor Mitchel’s administration have devoted much of their energy to attempts at personal onslaughts. This line of action has called forth the comment that it is because of the very absence of administrative scandals that the administration’s adversaries resort to vague personal attacks. From these opponents has come the persistent innuendo that because of Mayor Mitchel’s occasional social associations with rich and powerful personages, his official activities must necessarily be influenced by that contact. It is aptly pointed out that the hypocrisy and demagogery of such an aspersion may be properly estimated when it is recalled that the elements mainly concerned in spreading it have been the identical organized forces that year after year were the tools of designing men and corporations that by the adroit use of corrupt politics vested in themselves huge corporate privileges and powers and enormous wealth. THE END INDEX A Abolitionist movement, 122-123 Ackerman, Simon, 24 Adams, John, 5 Adams, John Quincy, 5, 61-65, 70-74, 82 Ætna Fire Insurance Co., 97 Ahearn, John F., 316, 324-326 Aldermanic corruption, 81, 98-99, 103, 105, 132-133, 155, 156, 167-171, 181, 197-198, 252, 263-265 Allds, Jotham P., 312 Allen, Stephen, 57, 60, 88, 89, 106 Alley, Saul, 106 Amory, William N., 293, 320-321, 332, 334-335 Andrews, Avery D., 279 Anti-Masonic party, 83, 87 Anti-Monopolists, 103, 109, 113-114, 119 Apollo Hall Democracy, 254 Arcularius, Philip I., 23 Astor, John Jacob, 232 B Bailey, Benjamin, 88 Baker, Gardiner, 7 Baker, Ray Stannard, 321 Bank of America, 96, 126 Bank of the Metropolis, 64 Bank of the United States (see U. S. Bank) Banks, abuses of, 13-14, 18, 79, 96-98, 106-107, 114 Bannard, Otto, 341-342 Bar Association, 253, 276, 284, 373 Barker, Isaac O., 179-180 Barker, Jacob, 13, 31, 44, 48, 49, 66, 70-71 Barker, James W., 174 Barnard, George G., 223, 242, 244, 248, 268 “Barnburners,” 140-149, 161 Barnes, William, Jr., 395 Barr, Thomas J., 163, 165, 170 Barrett, George C., 237 Becker, Charles, 356-357, 359-360 Bedell, Louis, 347 Beecher, Henry Ward, 237 Bell, Isaac, Jr., 192 Belmont, August, 230-252, 350-351 Bennet, William M., 338 Bennett, James Gordon, 72, 144 Bermel, Joseph, 329-30 Bensel, John A., 389 Betts, Peter, 96 Biddle, Nicholas, 89 Billings, Rev. H. W., 225 Bingham, John, 24-25 Bingham, Theodore A., 339-340 Binkerd, Robert S., 331 Birney, James G., 137 “Blackbirds,” 186 Blake, George W., 363, 369-370, 377 Bleecker, Anthony J., 179-180 Bloodgood, Abraham, 118 Bloodgood, John M., 118, 125, 144 Blunt, Orison, 205 Bogardus, Cornelius, 165 Bogert, John A., 147 Boole, Francis I. A., 199, 202, 203, 205, 206, 208 Bowne, Walter, 42, 81, 82, 88, 89, 98, 121, 127 Breckinridge, Lucian S., 397-398