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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall

CHAPTER 19
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For instance, I had a young man who was one of the best hustlers in town.

He knew every man in the district, was popular everywhere and could induce a half-dead man to come to the polls on election day.

But, regularly, two weeks before election, he started on a drunk, and I had to hire two men to guard him day and night and keep him sober enough to do his work.
That cost a lot of money, and I dropped the young man after a while.
Maybe you think I'm unpopular with the saloonkeepers because 1 don't drink.

You're wrong.

The most successful saloonkeepers don't drink themselves and they understand that my temperance is a business proposition, just like their own.


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