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speech that night. I'm sure Daisy was on the platform, as I remember seeing her. I was on the platform. However, she was right up in the front with the National Committee. She wasn't going around barnstorming in Independence, Jefferson City, Wooster, Ohio, and places like that. She wasn't doing that. But she was in back of the committee work all the time. She was a good and loyal Democrat.

I don't remember after Kansas City where we switched or how we broke up, but the next thing I remember clearly is finding myself piped alone this time, without anyone with me, to Chicago and from Chicago out into what you call the western reserve of Ohio. It was then that I became acquainted with Bernice Pike who was a state committee woman, and I think very good. She's still active politically and awfully capable and very energetic. She had mapped out a tour for me in Ohio and Indian, which was aimed at breaking down prejudice and at stirring up the loyal Democratic vote. “Ohio is Democratic,” I remember Bernice Pike saying to me. “Southern Ohio is solid Democratic and if it will vote as it always has believed, it can carry the state.”

We went to two or three places. We went to Cleveland where Western Reserve University is. There we had a very good meeting, very discreet. The principal element in the audience were of course educated people. They were professors





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