Washington Lafayette Snooker
San Francisco Call, 25 April 1897
“Surely you could not compare ignorance as to the occupants of the throne of Russia, for example, with a non-knowledge as to whether the estimable middleclass gentleman—who has, by means of gigantic bribery in dollars and promises, or frantic tweakings at the lion’s tail, been elected a tawdry kind of glorified boss, to be shaken hands with at will in the White House for four years—happens to be called Elihu B. Moggs or Washington Lafayette Snooker.”