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excited about that. I hadn't yet considered myself a Democrat. Woman didn't vote. I certainly didn't consider myself as a Democrat. I just was an independent looking on. My family had always been Republicans. I didn't hold with them about most things, but I never gave it any thought.

The Bull Moose party, all the excitement incident to it and the emphasis upon the social principles was very interesting and I was very much interested. I started for Chicago, not as a delegate or anything, but as an observer. I was called back by the illness of a member of my family. I was at Buffalo and I got the telegram and had to go back. But I was very much interested in the Bull Moose convention and always felt deeply regretful that I hadn't been there.

I now feel that it was just one of those lucky episodes that I wasn't because I might have been deeply drawn into it and I might have been a dissatisfied Republican, being frustrated all those years. I was much stirred by it and followed the convention through the papers with great interest. I was greatly moved and stirred and certainly thought that Roosevelt was something. A great change was coming.

I think the mere formation of the Bull Moose party, the mere launching of those concepts as political principles and a basis for political action had a great effect. He did throw in too many “judicial” decisions, but at the time I