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delegation. They began sending out into the corridors and the cloakrooms for them. The Tammany crowd came running. It wasn't any of my gentlemen acquaintances in the House of Representatives who rose to my support. One of them said to me afterwards, “Well, we don't think as quickly as they do. We all meant to, but we couldn't find our feet and our ideas quickly enough,” which I think was probably true. But that good bunch of Irishmen, with a good hearty Irish sense of fair play, knowing me to be good, stood up for me. They'd known me for a long time, and I'd always been “good.” I'd been truthful. I'd been helpful. I'd been on the right side. I was for the poor and the downtrodden. That was what I had done all my life and that was all right with them. They weren't going to see me attacked now.

It was perfectly killing. I went up to see Tom Curran the next day and he was red in the face then he was so mad. It was the kind of thing you never forget. They just rose to my support. That was all you could do. There was nothing more to be done at that particular time.

However, this thing went on. This autumn, winter and spring were the most unpleasant that I had ever lived through in my entire life. I don't think I ever went