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“When testifying before a senate committee investigating his behavior, he said, “I got that patronage from the sheriff, the county clerk, the county treasurer, all the clerks of the different courts, the State administration â€� It rarely happened â€� that any appointments of any kind, big or little, were made in the section of the city in which I lived without my recommendation.â€� Lorimer also owned a number of businesses that did contracting for the city, and through a process of what he suggested was “honest graftâ€� managed to accumulate considerable wealth. His machine, like those in other cities, catered to the interests of the huge number of immigrants and working-class voters who were flocking into the city to work in its new industries.”