I began several years before I could vote, and so did every successful leader in Tammany Hall.

When I was twelve years old I made myself useful around the district headquarters and did work at all the polls on election day.

Later on, I hustled about gettin' out voters who had jags on or who were too lazy to come to the polls.

There's a hundred ways that boys can help, and they get an experience that's the first real step in statesmanship.

Show me a boy that hustles for the organization on election day, and I'll show you a comin' statesman.
That's the a, b, c of politics.