I saw the billiard table--Zeke was guilty! When I got over the shock, I said to Zeke: "You are caught with the goods on.
No excuses will go.

The Democrats of this district ain't used to dukes and princes and we wouldn't feel comfortable in your company.

You'd overpower us.

You had better move up to the Nineteenth or Twenty-seventh District, and hang a silk stocking on your door." He went up to the Nineteenth, turned Republican, and was lookin' for an Albany job the last I heard of him.
Now, nobody ever saw me puttin' on any style.

I'm the same Plunkitt I was when I entered politics forty years ago.