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session. I was there part of every day. I saw everything.

Norman Davis was a candidate at that time. I knew him very well and his wife. He had taken one of the big boxes on the first tier, so the people came and went. There was a regular movement of Norman Davis for President. If I'm not mistaken, Walter Lippmann was very much involved in that. Arthur Bullard and his wife, who's now Lady Salter (Sir Arthur Salter's wife), were in Norman Davis's box every minute. A lot of very respectable, nice and broadminded Democrats wanted Norman Davis for President. I don't think he ever was put in nomination though. The idea was to hold back and let this fight about McAdoo settle itself and then Norman Davis would come up. I myself was something like the Tammany Hall following in the galleries. I wasn't too interested in anybody else that was being put up. I'd come to see Al Smith nominated and that was what I was crimarily interested in. All the ballotting, all the nominations and all the floor fights seemed an unnecessary delay and I was a little bit bored by it, not that I was against John W. Davis, except I didn't think that he was anything like the person we could have had in Al.

John W. Davis was a good compromise candidate. He was a good man, a very intelligent man, a very respectable man. He had standing. He was Southern born. Another thing that