It runs so smooth that you wouldn't think it was a complicated affair, but it is.

Every district leader is fitted to the district he runs and he wouldn't exactly fit any other district.
That's the reason Tammany never makes the mistake the Fusion outfit always makes of sendin' men into the districts who don't know the people, and have no sympathy with their peculiarities--We don't put a silk stockin' on the Bowery, nor do we make a man who is handy with his fists leader of the Twenty-ninth.

The Fusionists make about the same sort of a mistake that a repeater made at an election in Albany several years ago.

He was hired to go to the polls early in a half-dozen election districts and vote on other men's names before these men reached the polls.

At one place, when he was asked his name by the poll clerk, he had the nerve to answer "William Croswell Doane." "Come off.