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Then this man came to me and said, “The Senator wants to know if you're willing to speak now, after this.”

I said, “Certainly. If he thinks it's best and wants me to, certainly.”

When the Senator got through, he introduced me, and I rose to speak. I remember that they quieted down and were very polite. I was a lady. You don't know what a lady is in that area. In those days, they didn't treat you rough. At least they didn't mean to at the beginning. Then I went on to speak. I did what I had told Hawes I would do - wade right in in the beginning to the kind of a man Smith was, about his religion, how he really practised it, he really meant it, he really said his prayers. Two or three of them began to sob when I described that. That was the signal for some others to get mad and then the snarl broke out that had been going on in the back. Before I got my story fully told, they threw tomatoes and eggs. I stood my ground and went right on with my speech as though I hadn't noticed it. I don't think a tomato actually hit me. It hit the skirt of my dress. It hit the table that was there. Something or other hit on one of my shoes - it was as close as that. But nothing hit me in the face.

In this audience there was a division. It was awfully noisy because the “good” people, as we called them, were trying