Quill had put forth a maximum effort, but the Machine—the deputy sheriffs and other officials who handled the West Side boxes—had not. They got Johnson’s money—but Johnson didn’t get the votes. In fact, they took his money and laughed at him. A leader of the West Side, Frank H. Bushick, Jr., was later to tell him that during the campaign, “I went by your headquarters several times [and] found an atmosphere of smug self-sufficiency.” Bushick had enrolled nine of his precinct men—“men who have carried their boxes on the West Side for the past fifteen years”—in the Johnson cause, but on Election
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