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never get it out of committee. It's not going to be put out this year. That's the truth and you go and do as you please. You won't do any good by staying around here because it's not going to be taken up.”

I said, “Well, now, why?”

“Well,” he said, “there's lots of good Democrats who don't believe in this kind of thing.”

I said, “Well, tell me who. The Democratic party had a kind of a resolution in favor of it at the last convention.”

He said, “Well, yeah, but that don't mean anything. Didn't you know that was for the front? That sounded good because the Republicans didn't have any such thing. Your people agitated enough. Some of them got it introduced. The Democrats couldn't vote against it and so they voted for it. Do you know who one of the big contributors to the Democratic fund is?”

I said, “I don't know anything about it.”

He said, “It's the Huyler Candy Factory. They're great friends of Mr. Murphy's and they live right down there near him. It's not going to go through yet. You can take that as a tip, but don't you tell anybody.”

I never told a soul. I wouldn't believe him and I wouldn't give up. I believed of course that he was telling