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city are than anybody we've met. We like him and we're proud to know him, but we don't agree about this point. We're going to stick out for our points. “But it was, on the whole, a very favorable situation and Bridges showed himself a very astute and diplomatic person, because Lapham was pleased by his response and by the greeting that he got.

There's no question about it, and Lapham says so himself, that that meeting and that response of the long-shoremen is what made Roger Lapham mayor of San Francisco. That's what made him acceptable as a candidate. The long-shoremen all voted for him. Of course, I don't mean to say everyone of them did, but he got their general vote. Most of the labor people voted for him. He got the labor vote of San Francisco as well as the rest of the liberal vote, and some of the conversative vote. He got a very large vote and he got the labor vote completely. Everybody admitted that. Bridges said, “Sure, everybody voted for Lapham. He's a good fellow. He'll make a good mayor. He's a first-class person. You can do business with him.”

That was always interesting to me. Roger Lapham once said at some dinner party where I was, “This girl here, she made me mayor of San Fran cisco by kind of explaining the labor people to me. That's what started