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Strenuous Life of the Tammany District Leader.
Note: This chapter is based on extracts from Plunkitt's Diary and on my daily observation of the work of the district leader .-- W.L.R.
THE life of the Tammany district leader is strenuous.

To his work is due the wonderful recuperative power of the organization.
One year it goes down in defeat and the prediction is made that it will never again raise its head.

The district leader, undaunted by defeat, collects his scattered forces, organizes them as only Tammany knows how to organize, and in a little while the organization is as strong as ever.
No other politician in New York or elsewhere is exactly like the Tammany district leader or works as he does.

As a rule, he has no business or occupation other than politics.