He knows the Latin grammar backward.

What's strange, he's a sensible young fellow, too.

About once in a century we come across a fellow like that in Tammany politics.

James J.Martin, leader of the Twenty-seventh, is also something of a hightoner and publishes a law paper, while Thomas E.Rush, of the Twenty-ninth, is a lawyer, and Isaac Hopper, of the Thirty-first, is a big contractor.

The downtown leaders wouldn't do uptown, and vice versa.