That is why, when a reform administration comes in and spends a half million dollars in tryin' to find the public robberies they talked about in the campaign, they don't find them.
The books are always all right.

The money in the city treasury is all right.

Everything is all right.

All they can show is that the Tammany heads of departments looked after their friends, within the law, and gave them what opportunities they could to make honest graft.

Now, let me tell you that's never goin' to hurt Tammany with the people.