They want to get somethin' out of it.
But there is more than one kind of patronage.

We lost the public kind, or a greater part of it, in 1901, but Tammany has an immense private patronage that keeps things going' when it gets a setback at the polls.
Take me, for instance.

When Low came in, some of my men lost public jobs, but I fixed them all right.

I don't know how many jobs I got for them on the surface and elevated railroads--several hundred.
I placed a lot more on public works done by contractors, and no Tammany man goes hungry in my district.

Plunkitt's O.K.on an application for a job is never turned down, for they all know that Plunkitt and Tammany don't stay out long.