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other states too, with a hard core of the same group that were for suffrage, have followed the same methods of organizing wherever they have gone into politics. That goes for the New York group and to a certain extent for groups in other parts of the country. That is, they've done a grass roots organizing job and haven't depended upon big, over-all, banners and slogans, although they haven't been ashamed to use them and have been perfectly able to get up a big meeting. But they have known that the real work was done in the smaller meetings, in the house to house visitation, and in the organizing. If you could get a local woman to organize ten, you had ten votes and probably twenty for sure. Whereas, you might get a large number of people to come to a meeting, but without any necessary sense of responsibility coming from it. They have followed that technique.

I've already discussed the caravan that they took through New York State in Al Smith's day. They did the same thing over and over again in the Roosevelt campaign, as well as in the Smith campaigns. The same people operated it. They didn't take it outside of New York, because it was a New York committee that did it, but there were other states where they did something somewhat similar. Somewhere else I heard of what was not a true caravan, but a motorcade.