“Before then when a party won, its workers got everything in sight. That was somethin’ to make a man patriotic. p. 14”

—  George Washington Plunkitt

Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 3, The Curse of Civil Service Reform

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New York State Senator 1842–1924

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