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if we made at least a brief tour among the people who weren't invited to the luncheon, who weren't invited to Katie White's reception, who didn't have the privilege of coming to this dinner? Didn't they think we ought to do that.

Senator Cabell Bruce was there, of course, because he was our host. He said, “I think you're absolutely right. Politically it would be a great mistake for these ladies not to go into the other parts of the city. After all, those people vote too. Furthermore, I think they ought to go down on the Eastern Shore where there's such terrible prejudice against Smith.”

There was a great deal of advice against it. It wouldn't be proper or suitable for us to go into such places as that. Talk went on, and before the evening adjourned it was decided that it would be wise for us to go. Senator Bruce said he wouldn't permit us to go unless he went with us. We had to have proper escort. Some other man whose name I don't now remember went with us. Mrs. Cabell Bruce went with us. There were at least two automobiles.

We went to several different parts of the city. We were taken into grocery stores, and people like that. We met Democrats who were known in that ward. I suppose somebody from the state Democratic organization was along, but he wasn't picturesque enough so that his name sticks in my





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