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Stevenson would always have been able to get substantial money from sources that were not very reputable and who would have expected a great payoff from support, and actually he needed money from sources that were not going to expect any personal payoffs or payoffs that would be not in the public interest. So, he needed plus-money to get over this Minnesota defeat and he needed to get it not from poor sources, like shadowy characters in labor, let's say.

Who want to bet on the winner and get some. . .

Yes, and get some enormous personal gain from it.

Well, didn't he have such friends in Chicago?

Well, he didn't, because the rich people in Chicago were Republicans, and the number of rich Democrats was very skimpy indeed. He did have a few very strong friends but they didn't supply him with very sizable amounts of money for his campaign.

And his friends among the intellectuals, on the campuses and so forth, didn't have access to. . .

They didn't have access to large amounts of money. And, of course, money had to be given through legal ways, through various committees and things, but the net of it was that became available to him