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Theodore Roosevelt

CHAPTER II
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Mike is a devoted temperance man, and can be relied upon for every movement in the interest of good citizenship.

I was first intimately thrown with him when I was Police Commissioner.

One evening he and I--both in dress suits--attended a temperance meeting of Catholic societies.

It culminated in a lively set-to between myself and a Tammany Senator who was a very good fellow, but whose ideas of temperance differed radically from mine, and, as the event proved, from those of the majority of the meeting.

Mike evidently regarded himself as my backer--he was sitting on the platform beside me--and I think felt as pleased and interested as if the set-to had been physical instead of merely verbal.


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