Let me give you another example. It makes me hot under the collar
to tell about this. Last year some hay-seeds along the Hudson
River, mostly in Odell's neighborhood, got dissatisfied with the
docks where they landed their vegetables, brickbats, and other
things they produce in the river counties. 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. How did he do it? By cuttin'
down the expenses of the State Government? Oh, no! The
expenses went up. He simply performed the old Republican act of
milkin' New York City. The only difference was that he nearly
milked the city dry. He not only ran up the liquor tax, but put all
sorts of taxes on corporations, banks, insurance companies, and
everything in sight that could be made to give up. Of course, nearly
the whole tax fell on the city. Then Odell went through the country