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never thought about that. I was young and naive. I didn't know what a judicial decision was. I hadn't thought about constitutional principles at all or what the advantages were. Those things seemed all right to me - clear, good going.

I did go to the Baltimore convention that year. I was beginning to be interested in the political prospects. The gentleman who became my husband, Paul Wilson, and Henry Bruere and somebody else whom I can't remember were going to Baltimore. I had some friends in Baltimore who asked me to stay with them so I went down, hoping to get a ticket to get in and see a political convention. I'd never seen one. I went for the ride. I went for the show. And also I went because I was deeply interested in political principles.

I was very much impressed by that because it was obvious that the Wilsonites - at least it seemed so to me - were of a very superior breed to the others who were trying to wash him out. I don't remember today who the contestants were. The convention didn't make too much difference to me, but I was interested.

I was not from that time on a Democrat. Woman didn't have the vote, so women didn't have to be anything. I suppose I was nearer a Bull Mooser. I remember having a great fight with my father's brothers down in the country who thought that the Bull Moosers were scoundrels. Scoundrels was what they