Then I had a followin' of three voters and I began to get a bit chesty.

Whenever I dropped into district head-quarters, everybody shook hands with me, and the leader one day honored me by lightin' a match for my cigar.

And so it went on like a snowball rollin' down a hill I worked the flat-house that I lived in from the basement to the top floor, and I got about a dozen young men to follow me.

Then I tackled the next house and so on down the block and around the corner.

Before long I had sixty men back of me, and formed the George Washington Plunkitt Association.
What did the district leader say then when I called at headquarters?
I didn't have to call at headquarters.