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the discussion wasn't anything I was participating in. I wasn't giving any advice except that every now and then somebody would turn to me and say, “Now, what do you think?” I was young and unsophisticated and my reaction to a platform or to a candidate was merely interesting to them - how a little girl like that would react, and how people of her sort would react to this idea or that.

At that time I know that Moskowitz thought that McAneny was the only person to be the candidate. Otto T. Bannard was not seriously considered by the group I associated with. I'm sure that the papers would indicate that he was seriously considered, but I don't have any recollection of fit. I can only recollect what I heard and what I saw.

Henry Bruere and Paul Wilson Knew John Purroy Mitchel very well and had liked him very much indeed. He had been Commissioner of Accounts under Gaynor and they had liked what they saw of him. He was clean-cut, he was honorable, he was able and effective. He was sharp, but they liked that sharpness and they felt it was necessary. They saw that rather early.

Henry Moskowitz finally came around to this way of thinking. He had great influence at that time. I don't know why he did, but he seemed to have a great deal of political status at that time. He was a settlement worker.