He came after me and said: "George, what do you want?
If you don't see what you want, ask for it.

Wouldn't you like to have a job or two in the departments for your friends ?" I said: "I'll think it over; I haven't yet decided what the George Washington Plunkitt Association will do in the next campaign." You ought to have seen how I was courted and petted then by the leaders of the rival organizations I had marketable goods and there was bids for them from all sides, and I was a risin' man in politics.

As time went on, and my association grew, I thought I would like to go to the Assembly.
1 just had to hint at what I wanted, and three different organizations offered me the nomination.

Afterwards, I went to the Board of Aldermen, then to the State Senate, then became leader of the district, and so on up and up till I became a statesman.
That is the way and the only way to' make a lastin' success in politics.
If you are goin' to cast your first vote next November and want to go into politics, do as I did.

Get a followin', if it's only one man, and then go to the district leader and say: "I want to join the organization.