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the party, because he was afraid the Ku Klux Klan would get gay with us. That's what he finally said afterwards. He didn't like to tell us in advance because he thought we would be frightened. It was really the fear of what the Ku Klux might do. They were very, very virulent at the time. They had burned a cross somewhere or other a few weeks earlier. They were very opposed, of course, to Smith.

We made little speeches. We didn't give them our full stuff. We made little speeches outdoors, most of them in a little square, on a street corner, or just a little hall in one or two places. It was a little hall right on a corner and they drummed up a crowd of a couple of hundred people. We spent all that day there and we stayed somewhere on the Eastern Shore overnight. I don't remember whose house we stayed at, but I remember its being a beautiful old brick house - a lovely house. Then we went on, came back the next day and took a train.

I learned an awful lot then. I learned a great deal about what Maryland was like. I began to see the depths of this terrible prejudice - dreadful prejudice, just this deep-seated hatred of anybody who was Catholic. There was nothing against Al Smith among those poor people, except that he was Catholic. Both Irene and I at that point stressed, and tried to talk principally about, what he had done for the