Oh, yes, that is a good way to do up the so-called bosses, but have you ever thought what would become of the country if the bosses were put out of business, and their places were taken by a lot of cart-tail orators and college graduates?
It would mean chaos.

It would be just like takin' a lot of dry-goods clerks and settin' them to run express trains on the New York Central Railroad.

It makes my heart bleed to think of it.

Ignorant people are always talkin' against party bosses, but just wait till the bosses are gone! Then, and not until then, will they get the right sort of epitaphs, as Patrick Henry or Robert Emmet said.
Look at the bosses of Tammany Hall in the last twenty years.

What magnificent men! To them New York City owes pretty much all it is today.