while Caesar and Leary went under.

Now let me tell you that the ingrate in politics never flourishes
long. I can give you lots of examples. Look at the men who done
up Roscoe Conkling when he resigned from the United States
Senate and went to Albany to ask for re-election! What's become
of them? Passed from view like a movin' picture. Who took
Conkling's place in the Senate? Twenty dollars even that you can't
remember his name without looking in the almanac. And poor old
Plattt He's down and out now and Odell is in the saddle, but that
don't mean that he'll always be in the saddle. His enemies are
workin' hard all the time to do him, and I wouldn't be a bit
surprised if he went out before the next State campaign.

The politicians who make a lastin' success in politics are the men
who are always loyal to their friends, even up to the gate of State
prison, if necessary; men who keep their promises and never lie.
Richard Croker used to say that tellin' the truth and stickin' to his
friends was the political leader's stock in trade. Nobody ever said
anything truer, and nobody lived up to it better than Croker. That is
why he remained leader of Tammany Hall as long as he wanted to.
Every man in the organization trusted him. Sometimes he made
mistakes that hurt in campaigns, but they were always on the side
of servin' his friends.

It's the same with Charles F. Murphy. He has always stood by his
friends even when it looked like he would be downed for doin' so.
Remember how he stuck to McClellan in 1903 when all the
Brooklyn leaders were against him, and it seemed as if Tammany
was in for a grand smash-up! It's men like Croker and Murphy that