He usually did an extraordinary job of convincing people to either love of fear him. There was, however, on man that had no fear or love for Tweed at all. This man went by the name of Thomas Nast. Thomas Nast was a political cartoonist that set out to abolish any corruption in politics. Nast was able to see right through Tweeds mask and understand what was going on in the Tweed Ring. There were a many journalists who understood and wrote about what Tweed had been up to, but a great deal of his supporters were immigrants and working class people who couldn’t read. Nast could show these people the realism of Tweeds corruption. Tweed expressed his fear of political cartoons against him when he said, “Stop the dammed pictures. My constituents can’t read, but damn it, they can see pictures.” Seeing the pictures is exactly what his constituents did. Nast, along with other political cartoonist would end up turning the people on William Tweed. His reign of political power from then on, would become unstable. Between going in and out of jail, and being convicted in various different trials, Tweed lost a great deal of
He usually did an extraordinary job of convincing people to either love of fear him. There was, however, on man that had no fear or love for Tweed at all. This man went by the name of Thomas Nast. Thomas Nast was a political cartoonist that set out to abolish any corruption in politics. Nast was able to see right through Tweeds mask and understand what was going on in the Tweed Ring. There were a many journalists who understood and wrote about what Tweed had been up to, but a great deal of his supporters were immigrants and working class people who couldn’t read. Nast could show these people the realism of Tweeds corruption. Tweed expressed his fear of political cartoons against him when he said, “Stop the dammed pictures. My constituents can’t read, but damn it, they can see pictures.” Seeing the pictures is exactly what his constituents did. Nast, along with other political cartoonist would end up turning the people on William Tweed. His reign of political power from then on, would become unstable. Between going in and out of jail, and being convicted in various different trials, Tweed lost a great deal of