“The hayseeds think we are like the Indians to the National Government—that is, sort of wards of the State, who don’t know how to look after ourselves and have to be taken care of by the Republicans of St. Lawrence, Ontario, and other backwoods counties. p. 21”

— George Washington Plunkitt

Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 5, New York City Is Pie for the Hayseeds

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