I'm all for a square deal and down with scheming grafters and log-rollers, but I allow I hate them worst when they give another fellow the post I want.

We let grafters and wire-pullers run us, and, when we start a big job, get away with much of the capital we want for machines; but somehow we make good.

" Then there is the old Michaelmas rhyme: "At Michaelmas time, or a little before, Half an apple goes to the core; At Christmas time, or a little after, A crab in the hedge, and thanks to the grafter.

Never had these expert observers seen a genuine convert, but only hypocrites, liars, petty thieves, and grafters.

One thing the nation wanted apparently was the stamping out of what the party considered political immorality, fostered and abetted by the acts of what they called the grupo cientifico, or grafters, and by the policy of the Minister of Finance, Limantour, in particular.

It was applied to them by the Anti-reelectionists, meaning that they were scientific grafters and exploiters.

But I'm not altogether a grafter.

No doubt the world is cursed with grafters and parasitesmen who live off the body economic and give nothing substantial in return.

The ward bosses, the demagogues and grafters who are given power by the multitude, one campaign after another, would seem to justify the pessimism of Plato and Ibsen.

How can you win for Altacoola without letting these grafters make money out of it?" asked Haines in astonishment as the other two walked away.

" [Illustration: JONATHAN SWIFT 1667-1745] Swift's interests lay rather with the common people than with the Irish aristocracy, who, he thought, were arrant "grafters."

All the old political grafters, and all the would-be new ones savagely resented a regime under which bribery was not permitted; and, as always happens sooner or later, they began to show a tendency to meet in certain places, where they might talk violence without risk of incurring it.

THE GRAFTERS I ASHES OF EMPIRE

These grafters have us by the nape of the neck.

Wanting bare justice at the hands of the wreckers, Elinor would go to her wedding with Ormsby as the beggar maid went to King Cophetua; and all the loyalty of an unselfish love rose up in Kent to make the fight with the grafters a personal duel.

But it has all been contingent upon one thing: you were to crush the grafters in this railroad struggleshow them upand climb to distinction yourself on the ladder from which you had shaken them.

Thus, to take a crude example, the New York Police, which is, without doubt, learned in its own world, and well-adapted and equipped for asserting its authority there, sometimes intrudes, with its well-known bonhomie, into the worlds of drama and sculpture, and, because it is an acknowledged judge of crooks and grafters, presumes to be a judge and censor also of new plays and nude statues.

There's nothing very strange about this; it was common custom in the Middle Ages for lay and ecclesiastical seigneurs to make such compacts, but the marvel is that it has endured so well with governments rising and falling all about, and grafters and pretenders and dictators ruling every bailiwick in which they can get a foot-hold.

The grafters glanced at each other.

Of course he had to "give up" at intervals, depending on what administration was in power, who his immediate superior was, and what precinct he was attached to, but he was not a regular grafter by any means.

Public affairs and politics failed to interest him because he believed that the country was in the hands of a mob and that the "grafters would run things anyway."

But he is unfailingly cheerful and the cleverest grafter in the universe, with an artistic temperament highly developed; he sometimes sends in the unchewable roast smothered in cherry blossoms.

When 26 Broadway gives the secret order to the Washington boss and he passes it out to the grafters, there will be a quiet accumulation of the stock, won't there?"

Deh topes say 'Cam' vill nefer led dat fat punch off grafters slite out mit real money if he gan help id unt deh game iss endirely in his hands.

It is OK + if the balance of the story is as good (+ I have no doubts on that score) you are "It" when it comes to writting fiction as well as tricking the Insurance Thief + Standard Oil Grafters.