There was no chance of their running him out.

Why shouldn't he knife the ticket?
It was worth thinking over, to say the least.
"That's all very fine," he observed, dryly, after his meditations had run their course; "but how do I know that you wouldn't turn around and 'welch' on the agreement afterward ?" (Mr.Gilgan stirred irritably at the suggestion.) "Dave Morrissey came to me four years ago to help him out, and a lot of satisfaction I got afterward." Kerrigan was referring to a man whom he had helped make county clerk, and who had turned on him when he asked for return favors and his support for the office of commissioner of highways.

Morrissey had become a prominent politician.
"That's very easy to say," replied Gilgan, irritably, "but it's not true of me.

Ask any man in my district.

Ask the men who know me.
I'll put my part of the bargain in black and white if you'll put yours.
If I don't make good, show me up afterward.