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very important. They were leaders of Baltimore society and very able to form opinions because of the positions that they held. Everybody was a Democrat. There were hardly any Republicans in Baltimore. The problem was to sell Smith to the Democrats, so they could vote for him.

Irene and I insisted on being taken to the low-lived people, many of whom were Republicans, and Senator Bruce went with us.

At this luncheon we did our stuff for the first time. We made our speeches. It went big. We got the pattern there, because it went off very well indeed. Irene spoke first. She was of course enthusiastically received, because she was Mr. Chissy Langhorne's daughter. She was introduced as that. When she got up to speak, she had to say how much she thanked them for remembering her father, her beautiful days in Baltimore, what a lovely time she'd had, and so forth. Then she said, “But Mrs. ‘So-and-so' who introduced me doesn't know everything I've done since I went to New York. I married Charles Dana Gibson and he's a great artist. I don't deny that she said that, but she doesn't know all the other things I've done. She doesn't know that I'm the President of the Children's Welfare Society. I've been on the Board of Directors of the Children's Aid Society. I've been on the Board of Directors of ‘this, that and the other