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Federation of Labor, I think. At any rate, he had assumed a position of leadership in the labor movement in Pennsylvania. He was a life-long Democrat, which most miners and most labor people were not. They were Republicans - the full-dinner pail made them Republicans. The Republicans made a dead set for the labor people and they sold them the protective tariff. Samuel Gompers was a Republican.

The Democrats were a lesser breed. They were the Solid South which had a grievance and a reason, plus the lower elements in some cities - not Philadelphia whose lower elements always remained solidly Republican. New York remained pretty generally Republican. Seth Low was a Republican. The Irish were just beginning to feel their strength in Boston. They became Democrats for no other reason in the World than it was a better position from which to pull the British lion's tail. It wasn't anything that had to do with the Democrats themselves. I'd like to see an analysis of how the Irish in Boston happened to become Democrats. I'd like to have that done and give it to Henry Bruere. He's going to be a great historian. He's now working hard on a project on American history that he was interested in as quite a young man. I don't know what project this is. He never takes me into his confidence as to which part of it it is. How the Irish came to become Democrats would be most