Thomas Nasst

The thing about boss tweed's ring was that thanks to journalism it was vastly skewed. This was mainly do to journalist Thomas Nasst. Nasst was known for his political cartoons on Tweed's ring. He and the New York Times, were the main reasons for the "corrupt politician" reputation given to Tweed and his constituents. The reason one might think that Tweed's crouped persona might be skewed in a negative light, is because of his actual actions. If you were to go and look up what Tweed and his constituents were really using their corruption of power for you'd see that even though they were using some of it for there own personal gain, but at the same time they were mainly trying to help the immigrants that settled in NYC. In particular the immigrants that were trying to further their own businesses.

Below are some images. One of Nast himself and two of his drawings depicting some Tweed and his constituency's escapades.

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