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and the distribution of wealth. He had been the only son of a widowed mother and had gone to work to sell papers and black shoes when he was eleven. He had been very busy making his living and the family living, so he hadn't noticed these connections very much and the slum tenements merely seemed familiar and natural and in a way easy. He had very soon learned that Tammany Hall was a source of help and had gone to the district leader who had helped him, his mother and his sister whenever they were in trouble, as well as the whole neighborhood.

So he had profound affection for Tammany Hall and all that it stood for. I use the word affection to mean just that. He had the affection you have for your school - it may not have been a very good school and perhaps you didn't get a very good education there, but you really have affection for the place where you went to school and learned to read. You don't feel about that place as you feel about other experiences in your life. He had that kind of affection for it.

He was always very quick to rise and defend them. If they had done wrong, that was wrong, but their intentions had been right. McManus never meant to be a grafter. George Washington Plunkett had just about that time given