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In other words, four or five cars would spend a day driving around the country. They would stop in towns. They would call on people. They would go to see the leading ministers. They would go to see the school teachers. They would go to see some people whose names they had. From them they would go to see others. They would make house to house calls. It's a very good technique for women's organizations. Of course, the whole burden of their talk was why Roosevelt would make a good President, and why it was necessary to elect them.

Some of the women in the suffrage movement were outstanding Republicans. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt was a Republican. She wasn't joining in on this motorcade, and neither was Caroline Slade, who was a Republican and a good one and who had been a leading suffragist. Women who had been in the suffrage movement and who were Democrats, or who had decided they were Democrats after they got suffrage, or who wanted to vote for Smith, or who wanted to vote for Roosevelt and hadn't yet registered with any particular party, tended to follow this line of organization and this line of work, because it was a natural way. They had used it in suffrage and it had worked.

It still works. If you can get anybody to do it nowadays, it still works. One of the reasons I feel it's