The example of new york's boss tweed illustrated a. the concern of urban political bosses with representing the best political and economic interests of their urban constituents.; b. the effectiveness of the federal government in ferreting out urban political corruption at an early stage in its development.; c. the high value on honesty and ethics put on governing during this age.; d. the inability of the press and the legal establishment to take down a notoriously venal political figure after a lifetime of managing a politically corrupt machine.; e. the typical lack of ethics of the gilded age, which also pervaded government in the form of bribery, graft, and fraudulent elections.