Na tentativa de construção de uma versão oficial do 15 de novembro de 1889 e do estabelecimento do mito de origem as diferentes versões do episódio criadas no período imediatamente posterior à proclamação da república revelavam sobretudo

Criticisms made by the opposition that a private society was engaging in politics resulted in a separation of Tammany Hall’s social and political functions. In 1805 the Society of St. Tammany obtained from the state legislature a charter of incorporation as a benevolent and charitable body to give relief to members and others. Politically, the Democratic Party was organized as an apparently distinct body, but the society’s sachems controlled the political mechanism and prevented hostile factions from meeting in the society’s building, Tammany Hall.

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