People have got an idea that because the liquor men are with us in campaigns.
our district leaders spend most of their time leanin' against bars.
There couldn't be a wronger idea.

The district leader makes a business of politics, gets his livin' out of it, and, in order to succeed, he's got to keep sober just like in any other business.
Just take as examples "Big Tim" and "Little Tim" Sullivan.

They're known all over the country as the Bowery leaders and, as there's nothin' but saloons on the Bowery, people might think that they are hard drinkers.
The fact is that neither of them has ever touched a drop of liquor in his life of even smoked a cigar.

Still they don't make no pretenses of being better than anybody else, and don't go around deliverin' temperance lectures.

Big Tim made money out of liquor--sellin' it to other people.