What of it?
If opportunities for turnin' an honest dollar comes their 'way, why shouldn't they take advantage of them, just as I have done?
As I said, in another talk, there is honest graft and dishonest graft.

The bosses go in for the former.

There is so much of it in this big town that they would be fools to go in for dishonest graft.
Now, the primary election law threatens to do away with the boss and make the city government a menagerie.

That's why I can't take the rest I counted on.

I'm goin' to propose a bill for the next session of the legislature repealin' this dangerous law, and leavin' the primaries entirely to the organizations themselves, as they used to be.