“Then will return the good old times, when our district leaders could have nice comfortable primary elections at some place selected by themselves and let in only men that they approved of as good Democrats. p. 83”

—  George Washington Plunkitt

Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 20, Bosses Preserve the Nation

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