Plunkett of Tammany Hall

Every good man looks after his friends and any man who doesn't isn't likely to be popular. If I have a good thing to hand out in private life, I give it to a friend. Another kind of honest graft. Tammany has raised a good many salaries. There was an awful howl by the reformers but don't you know that Tammany gains ten votes for everyone at last by salary raising? The Wall Street banker thinks it's shameful to raise a department clerk's salary from 1500 to 1800 a year. And he feels very much like voting the Tammany ticket on Election Day, just out of sympathy. Why should Tammany leaders go into such dirty business? When there

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