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At any rate, Wallace was nominated. That was, as I've said, a period of great tenaion. Wallace had his speech ready, but was advised by Walker and others not to make it, and didn't. The convention adjourned very promptly thereafter, that being the only way that those who were handling the convention could really handle it. The galleries, nevertheless, or part of them, broke into loud cheers and continued the cheering after Wallace was nominated.

After the nomination, I left the platform. Somebody had asked me to ride back to the hotel with him. I don't recall now who it was, but I think it may have been Trank Walker. He had an official car. There's almost no parking space out at that great auditroium so that the fight to get back was terrible every night. Only official cars of the convention could get parking space, and perhaps a few others. As we went out to the parking space where his car was, and I think that Belle Roosevelt, Susanta and Frank Walker were with me, Hillman came out with a dozen people or so - the type of people of whom you'd say at once “his cohorts.” Somehow they seemed to be attached to him. They all had that physical attitude of followers rather than independent citizens. Hillman, erect, with his chin up, looking pompous, came up to





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