I remember once a Syracuse man came to Richard Croker at the Democratic Club, handed him a letter of introduction and said: "I'm lookin' for a job in the Street Cleanin' Department; I'm backed by a hundred upstate Democrats." Croker looked hard at the man a minute and then said: "Upstate Democrats! Upstate Democrats! I didn't know there was any upstate Democrats.

Just walk up and down a while till I see what an upstate Democrat looks like." Another thing.

When a campaign is on, did you ever hear of an upstate Democrat makin' a contribution?
Not much.

Tammany has had to foot the whole bill, and when any of Hill's men came down to New York to help him in the campaign, we had to pay their board.

Whenever money is to be raised, there's nothin' doin' up the State.