He is as popular with one race as with the other.

He eats corned beef and kosher meat with equal nonchalance, and it's all the same to him whether he takes off his hat in the church or pulls it down over his ears in the synagogue.
The other downtown leaders, Barney Martin of the Fifth, Tim Sullivan of the Sixth, Pat Keahon of the Seventh, Florrie Sullivan of the Eighth, Frank Goodwin of the Ninth, Julius Harburger of the Tenth, Pete Dooling of the Eleventh, Joe Scully of the Twelfth, Johnnie Oakley of the Fourteenth, and Pat Keenan of the Sixteenth are just built to suit the people they have to deal with.

They don't go in for literary business much downtown, but these men are all real gents, and that's what the people want--even the poorest tenement dwellers.

As you go farther uptown you find a rather different kind of district leader.

There's Victor Dowling who was until lately the leader of the Twenty-fourth.
He's a lulu.