They got together and said: "Let's take a trip down to New York and pick out the finest dock we can find.

Odell and the Legislature will do the rest." They did come down here, and what do you think they hit on?
The finest dock in my district Invaded George W.
Plunkitt's district without sayin' as much as "by your leave." Then they called on Odell to put through a bill givin' them this dock, and he did.
When the bill came before Mayor Low I made the greatest speech of my life.

I pointed out how the Legislature could give the whole waterfront to the hayseeds over the head of the Dock Commissioner in the same way, and warned the Mayor that nations had rebelled against their governments for less.

But it was no go.

Odell and Low were pards and--well, my dock was stolen.
You heard a lot in the State campaign about Odell's great work in reducin' the State tax to almost nothin', and you'll hear a lot more about it in the campaign next year.