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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall

CHAPTER 12
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When I asked him what he was doin', he said: "Nothin' at present, but I got a promise of a job enrollin' voters at Citizens' Union head-quarters." Yes, a dress Suit had brought him that low! I'll tell you another case right in my own Assembly District.

A few years ago I had as one of my lieutenants a man named Zeke Thompson.

He did fine work for me and I thought he had a bright future.

One day he came to me, said he intended to buy an option on a house, and asked me to help him out.

I like to see a young man acquirin' property and I had so much confidence in Zeke that I put up for him on the house.
A month or so afterwards I heard strange rumors.


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