A politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends.
1A ward-heeler cadging votes for a Milwaukee alderman never wheedled more gingerly.
2It is bad to elevate the mind of the average ward-heeler?
3And Blount knew the disappearance was real, because the ward-heeler's own henchmen were searching for him.
4A very good sample was the notorious Yankee Sullivan, an ex-prize-fighter, ward-heeler, ballot-box stuffer, and shoulder-striker.
5If you tried to vote some ward-heeler would challenge you and you'd like as not be hauled off to the lock-up.
6A choice haul was made of the lesser lights of the ward-heelers and chief politicians.
7We were swaggering about like ward-heelers, when on the afternoon of the 5th the unexpected again happened.
8He cries aloud in the market-place, and rogues and ward-heelers, and evil-minded politicians, group themselves around him.
9"They've got my number," said the ward-heeler, in a convict whisper which was little more than a facial contortion.
10"Under the guise of studying me and my machine," he said, "you've been using it to train speakers, and to educate ward-heelers.