Question: Why was there a lack of interest in Tammany Hall political machine?
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Stoneham was also a member of the Tammany Hall political machine. 
In 1772, the original Tammany Society was formed in Philadelphia (it was originally called the "Sons of King Tammany" but was later renamed the "Sons of St. Tammany").
Soon, Tammany societies began to appear from Georgia to Rhode Island to the Ohio River.
The most famous of these was New York City's Society of St. Tammany, which grew into a major political machine known as "Tammany Hall."
A white marble statue of Tamanend adorned the façade of the building on East 14th Street that housed Tammany Hall. 
The Tammany Society, also known as the Society of St. Tammany, the Sons of St. Tammany, or the Columbian Order, was founded in New York on May 12, 1789, originally as a branch of a wider network of Tammany Societies, the first having been formed in Philadelphia in 1772.
The society was originally developed as a club for "pure Americans".
The name "Tammany" comes from Tamanend, a Native American leader of the Lenape.
The society adopted many Native American words and also their customs, going so far as to call its hall a wigwam.
The first Grand Sachem, as the leader was titled, was William Mooney, an upholsterer of Nassau Street.
By 1798, the society's activities had grown increasingly political.
High ranking Democrat-Republican Aaron Burr saw Tammany Hall as an opportunity to counter Alexander Hamilton's Society of the Cincinnati and developed it into a political machine.
Eventually Tammany emerged as the center of Democratic-Republican Party politics in the city.
Burr used Tammany Hall influence in the election of 1800, in which he was elected Vice President of the United States.
Many historians believe that without Tammany, President John Adams might have won New York State's electoral votes and won reelection.
Early cases of political corruption involving Tammany Hall came to light during the group's feud with local politician Dewitt Clinton.
The feud began in 1802 after he accused Aaron Burr of being a traitor to the Democratic-Republican Party.
In 1803, Clinton left the United States Senate and became Mayor of New York City.
As mayor, Clinton enforced a spoils system and appointed his family and partisans to positions in the city's local government.
Tammany Hall soon realized their influence over the local political scene was no match for that of Clinton's, in part because Burr's support among New York City's residents greatly faded after he shot and killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel.
Tammany continued to support him for a time, but eventually pressure from the public persuaded the organization to no longer affiliate themselves with Burr.
In December 1805, Dewitt Clinton reached out to supporters of Burr in order to gain enough support to resist the influence of the powerful Livingstone family.
The Livingstone family, led by former New York City mayor Edward Livingston, backed New York Governor Morgan Lewis and presented a significant challenge to Clinton.
The Tammany Hall Sachems agreed to meet with him on February 20, 1806.
The Burrites thought this assured the reinstatement of their political chief, but the Tammany Hall Sachems turned on them and agreed to work to bring them into Clinton's fold rather than have them work together with Clintonites as a joint-union.
The Sachems were expelled and Tammany Hall continued to oppose Clinton.
Tammany Hall afterwards became a locally organized machine dedicated to stopping Clinton and Federalists from rising to power in New York; in 1806, however, local Democrat-Republicans began to turn against Tammany Hall.
In 1809, the local Common Council cracked down on Tammany Hall and found that a number of its Sachems secretly received huge funds.
Following the disclosures, the Federalists won control of the state legislature and the Democratic-Republican Party barely maintained control of the local government in New York City.
The Tammany Hall Sachems then agreed to discipline the organization by passing laws that established an organization that oversaw Tammany Hall's finances and limiting contributions to the organization.
Between the years 1809 and 1815, Tammany Hall slowly revived itself by accepting immigrants and by secretly building a new wigwam to hold meetings whenever new Sachems were named.
The Democratic-Republican Committee, a new committee which consisted of the most influential local Democratic Republicans, would now name the new Sachems as well.
Support for Tammany Hall regrew after they supported the War of 1812.
In 1815, Tammany Hall grand sachem John Ferguson defeated Dewitt Clinton and was elected mayor.
In 1817, however, Clinton became Governor of New York and Tammany Hall was again weakened.
During this time, Tammany Hall began to accept Irish immigrants as members and soon became dependent on them to maintain viability as a political force.
Until his death in 1828, Clinton would remain Governor of New York, with the exception of the two-year-period 1823–1824, and Tammany Hall's influence waned.
During the 1828 U.S. presidential election, Tammany Hall leaders met with Democratic candidate Andrew Jackson and agreed to endorse him after he promised to give them control over the allocation of some federal jobs.
After he was elected President, Jackson fulfilled his promise.
After 1829, Tammany Hall became the city affiliate of the Democratic Party, controlling most of the New York City elections afterwards.
In the 1830s the Loco-Focos, an anti-monopoly and pro-labor faction of the Democratic Party, became Tammany's main opposition by appealing to workingmen.
Throughout the 1830s and 1840s, the Society expanded its political control even further by earning the loyalty of the city's ever-expanding immigrant community, which functioned as a base of political capital.
The Tammany Hall "ward boss" served as the local vote gatherer and provider of patronage.
During the 1840s, hundreds of thousands of Irish immigrants arrived in New York City to escape the Great Irish Potato Famine and Tammany saw its power grow greatly. 
Tammany Hall, also known as the Society of St. Tammany, the Sons of St. Tammany, or the Columbian Order, was a New York City political organization founded in 1786 and incorporated on May 12, 1789, as the Tammany Society.
It was the Democratic Party political machine that played a major role in controlling New York City and New York State politics and helping immigrants, most notably the Irish, rise up in American politics from the 1790s to the 1960s.
It controlled Democratic Party nominations and political patronage in Manhattan from the mayoral victory of Fernando Wood in 1854 through the election of John P. O'Brien in 1932.
The Tammany Society was named for Tamanend, a Native American leader of the Lenape, and emerged as the center for Democratic-Republican Party politics in the city in the early 19th century.
The "Hall" serving as the Society's headquarters was built in 1868 on East 14th Street, marking an era when Tammany Hall became the city affiliate of the Democratic Party, controlling most of the New York City elections afterwards.
The Society expanded its political control even further by earning the loyalty of the city's ever-expanding immigrant community, which functioned as a base of political capital.
The Tammany Hall ward boss or ward heeler – "wards" were the city's smallest political units from 1686 to 1938 – served as the local vote gatherer and provider of patronage.
Beginning in late 1845, Tammany power surged with the influx of millions of Irish immigrants to New York.
From 1872, Tammany had an Irish "boss," and in 1928 a Tammany hero, New York Governor Al Smith won the Democratic presidential nomination.
However, Tammany Hall also served as an engine for graft and political corruption, perhaps most infamously under William M. "Boss" Tweed in the mid-19th century.
Tammany Hall's influence waned in the 20th Century; in 1932, Mayor Jimmy Walker was forced from office, and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt stripped Tammany of federal patronage.
Republican Fiorello La Guardia was elected mayor on a Fusion ticket and became the first anti-Tammany mayor to be re-elected.
A brief resurgence in Tammany power in the 1950s under the leadership of Carmine DeSapio was met with Democratic Party opposition led by Eleanor Roosevelt, Herbert Lehman, and the New York Committee for Democratic Voters.
By the mid-1960s Tammany Hall ceased to exist. 
The Tammanies or Tammany Societies were named for the Delaware chief Tamanend or Tammany revered for his wisdom.
During the American Revolutionary War admiring colonists dubbed him St. Tammany, the Patron Saint of America.
Tammanies are most well known today for New York City's Tammany Hall—also popularly known as the Great Wigwam—but that society was not limited to New York.
Indeed, there were Tammany Societies throughout the colonies, and later, the young country, reflecting a great popular interest in frontier and Indian life, customs and language.
The Smithsonian's highly respected "Handbook of Indians North of Mexico" has this to say about the Tammanies: :...it appears that the Philadelphia society, which was probably the first bearing the name, and is claimed as the original of the Red Men secret order, was organized May 1, 1772, under the title of Sons of King Tammany, with strongly Loyalist tendency.
It is probable that the "Saint Tammany" society was a later organization of Revolutionary sympathizers opposed to the kingly idea.
Saint Tammany parish, La., preserves the memory.
The practice of organizing American political and military societies on an Indian basis dates back to the French and Indian war, and was especially in favor among the soldiers of the Revolutionary army, most of whom were frontiersmen more or less familiar with Indian life and custom.
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:The society occasionally at first known as the Columbian Order took an Indian title and formulated for itself a ritual based upon supposedly Indian custom.
Thus, the name chosen was that of the traditional Delaware chief; the meeting place was called the "wigwam"; there were 13 "tribes" or branches corresponding to the 13 original states, the New York parent organization being the "Eagle Tribe," New Hampshire the "Otter Tribe," Delaware the "Tiger Tribe," whence the famous "Tammany tiger," etc.
The principal officer of each tribe was styled the "sachem," and the head of the whole organization was designated the kitchi okeemaw, or grand sachem, which office was held by Mooney himself for more than 20 years.
Subordinate officers also were designated by other Indian titles, records were kept according to the Indian system by moons and seasons, and at the regular meetings the members attended in semi-Indian costume.
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The defining purpose of the Tammany Societies was to delight in all things Native American—titles, seasons, rituals, language, costumes and so forth as this 1812 notice of a meeting of Wigwam No.
9 in Hamilton, Ohio illustrates: :NOTICE.--The members of the Tammany Society No.
9 will meet at their wigwam at the house of brother William MURRAY, in Hamilton, on Thursday, the first of the month of heats, precisely at the going down of the sun.
Punctual attendance is requested.
:"By order of the Great Sachem. "
:The ninth of the month of flowers, year of discovery 323.
William C. KEEN, Secretary  This notice is virtually a carbon copy of the kind of notices that appeared regularly throughout the young nation for decades.
Only the details of time, place, and perhaps Native rituals to be observed changed.
Although the New York Tammanies came to be part of the Democratic political machine, politics was never a very important part of the New York Tammanies' agenda; their notices were like the one above and virtually never mentioned political activity.
A political rally or parade was little more than merely another opportunity to delight in what they perceived as Indian regalia, customs and language.