Lincoln Steffens and Claude Wetmore wrote on one of the greatest urban scandals of the post-Civil War: corruption.
The article Tweed Days in St. Louis, printed in McClure's magazine on a 1902 issue, was written by Steffens and Wetmore along with other writers and was called the first muckraking article.
In it, Major Ziegenhein and the city council were denounced for corruption, claiming they were stealing the public budget and getting bribes to approve regulations.
