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This slim hardbound book was given to Job Harriman, and it was said to have laid out a very good case against the aqueduct and against Harris Notice and the land speculators. Copies of the book were spreading all over the city, and Harriman felt it contained everything he had talked about in his mayoral campaign, suggesting Mulholland and the aqueduct were rotten to the core.
The Conspiracy by W.T. Spillman. This is everything you were talking about in your mayoral campaign. This fella has gone through and laid out a very good case, both against the aqueduct and against Ha...
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This slim hardbound book was given to Job Harriman, and it was said to have laid out a very good case against the aqueduct and against Harris Notice and the land speculators. Copies of the book were spreading all over the city, and Harriman felt it contained everything he had talked about in his mayoral campaign, suggesting Mulholland and the aqueduct were rotten to the core.
The Conspiracy by W.T. Spillman. This is everything you were talking about in your mayoral campaign. This fella has gone through and laid out a very good case, both against the aqueduct and against Harris Notice and the land speculators.
I've never heard of Spillman.
Yeah this is incredible. It's just like you were saying in the campaign. Mulholland and his aqueduct are both rotten to the core.
Many of these were cribbed from a book by W.T. Spillman called The Conspiracy, which went to great lengths to prove the city's new water source was less about civic interest and more about personal profiteering.