He spends so much of his time over here and has seen so much of the world that I thought he might be an exception, and grow out of his Brooklyn surroundings, but his course at Albany shows that there is no exception to the rule.

Say, I'd rather take a Hottentot in hand to bring up as a good New Yorker than undertake the job with a Brooklynite.

Honest, I would.
And, by the way, come to think of it, is there really any upstate Democrats left?
It has never been proved to my satisfaction that there is any.

I know that some upstate members of the State committee call themselves Democrats.

Besides these, I know at least six more men above the Bronx who make a livin' out of professin' to be Democrats, and I have just heard of some few more.