That young man is today one of the wildest Anarchists in town.

And just to think! He might be a patriot but for that cussed civil service.
Say, did you hear about that Civil Service Reform Association kickin' because the tax commissioners want to put their fifty-five deputies on the exempt list, and fire the outfit left to them by Low?
That's civil service for you.

Just think! Fifty-five Republicans and mugwumps holdin' $8000 and $4000 and $5000 jobs in the tax department when 1555 good Tammany men are ready and willin' to take their places! It's an outrage! What did the people mean when they voted for Tammany?
What is representative government, anyhow?
Is it all a fake that this is a government of the people, by the people and for the people?
If it isn't a fake, then why isn't the people's voice obeyed and Tammany men put in all the offices?
When the people elected Tammany, they knew just what they were doin'.
We didn't put up any false pretenses.

We didn't go in for humbug civil service and all that rot.

We stood as we have always stood, for reward--in' the men that won the victory.