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1  To him Scully was a mighty power, the "biggest" man he had ever met.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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2  Scully had accepted the offer, and then gone to the Republicans with a proposition.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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3  The ruler of the district was therefore the Democratic boss, a little Irishman named Mike Scully.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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4  It was Scully, for instance, who owned that dump which Jurgis and Ona had seen the first day of their arrival.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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5  He had fallen in with some other children and found the way to Mike Scully's dump, which lay three or four blocks away.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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6  It gave them pleasure to believe this, for Scully stood as the people's man, and boasted of it boldly when election day came.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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7  If Scully was the thumb, Pat Callahan was the first finger of the unseen hand whereby the packers held down the people of the district.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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8  There were barrels of money for the use of those who could deliver the goods; and Jurgis might count upon Mike Scully, who had never yet gone back on a friend.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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9  The newspapers had got hold of that story, and there had been a scandal; but Scully had hired somebody to confess and take all the blame, and then skip the country.
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10  Scully held an important party office in the state, and bossed even the mayor of the city, it was said; it was his boast that he carried the stockyards in his pocket.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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11  In return for this the Republicans would agree to put up no candidate the following year, when Scully himself came up for reelection as the other alderman from the ward.
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12  There had come to Scully a proposition to nominate a certain rich brewer who lived upon a swell boulevard that skirted the district, and who coveted the big badge and the "honorable" of an alderman.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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13  The packers had wanted a bridge at Ashland Avenue, but they had not been able to get it till they had seen Scully; and it was the same with "Bubbly Creek," which the city had threatened to make the packers cover over, till Scully had come to their aid.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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14  It was said, too, that he had built his brick-kiln in the same way, and that the workmen were on the city payroll while they did it; however, one had to press closely to get these things out of the men, for it was not their business, and Mike Scully was a good man to stand in with.
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15  In the same way Scully had all the jobs in the fire department at his disposal, and all the rest of the city graft in the stockyards district; he was building a block of flats somewhere up on Ashland Avenue, and the man who was overseeing it for him was drawing pay as a city inspector of sewers.
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16  It was Scully who was to blame for the unpaved street in which Jurgis's child had been drowned; it was Scully who had put into office the magistrate who had first sent Jurgis to jail; it was Scully who was principal stockholder in the company which had sold him the ramshackle tenement, and then robbed him of it.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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17  His inspiriting address was quoted to the extent of half a column in all the morning newspapers, which also said that it could be stated upon excellent authority that the unexpected popularity developed by Doyle, the Republican candidate for alderman, was giving great anxiety to Mr. Scully, the chairman of the Democratic City Committee.
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