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Concerning Gas in Politics.
SINCE the eighty-cent gas bill was defeated in Albany, everybody's talkin' about senators bein' bribed.

Now, I wasn't in the Senate last session, and I don't know the ins and outs of everything that was done, but I can tell you that the legislators are often hauled over the coals when they are all on the level I've been there and I know.

For instance, when I voted in the Senate in 1904, for the Remsen Bill that the newspapers called the "Astoria Gas Grab Bill," they didn't do a thing to me.

The papers kept up a howl about all the supporters of the bill bein' bought up by the Consolidated Gas Company, and the Citizens' Union did me the honor to call me the commander-in-chief of the "Black Horse Cavalry." The fact is that I was workin' for my district all this time, and I wasn't bribed by nobody.