The example of New York's Boss Tweed illustrated A. The concern of urban political bosses with representing the best political and economic interests of their urban constituents.;
B. The effectiveness of the federal government in ferreting out urban political corruption at an early stage in its development.; C. The high value on honesty and ethics put on governing during this age.; D. The inability of the press and the legal establishment to take down a notoriously venal political figure after a lifetime of managing a politically corrupt machine.; E. The typical lack of ethics of the Gilded Age, which also pervaded government in the form of bribery, graft, and fraudulent elections.