He, like all the other upstate Republicans, wants to get hold of New York City.

New York is their pie.
Say, you hear a lot about the downtrodden people of Ireland and the Russian peasants and the sufferin' Boers.

Now, let me tell you that they have more real freedom and home rule than the people of this grand and imperial city.

In England, for example, they make a pretense of givin' the Irish some self-government In this State the Republican government makes no pretense at all.

It says right out in the open: "New York City is a nice big fat Goose.