because ex-Governor Odell comes down here to direct the
Republican machine? Newburg ain't big enough for him. 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. Come along
with your carvin' knives and have a slice." They don't pretend to
ask the Goose's consent.

We don't own our streets or our docks or our waterfront or
anything else. The Republican Legislature and Governor run the
whole shootin' match. We've got to eat and drink what they tell us
to eat and drink, and have got to choose our time for eatin' and
drinkin' to suit them. If they don't feel like takin' a glass of beer on
Sunday, we must abstain. If they have not got any amusements up
in their backwoods, we mustn't have none. We've got to regulate
our whole lives to suit them. And then we have to pay their taxes
to boot.

Did you ever go up to Albany from this city with a delegation that
wanted anything from the Legislature? No? Well, don't. The
hayseeds who run all the committees will look at you as if you
were a child that didn't know what it wanted, and will tell you in
so many words to go home and be good and the Legislature will