Corruption, bribery, and graft are the inevitable results of the undue influence of money in politics. Men are put into office for the favors they can procure for the business interests that pay their election expenses, and not for the services they can render to their city, state, or nation. And every attempt to take the bestowal of public office out of the hands of the professional politician and restore it to the people is met by the solid opposition of the party “machine” backed by the accumulated funds of corruption and bribery.

Muzzey, David. An American History. 1st. Boston: The Athenaeum Press, 1911.