Charles LeRoy Lewis - Special Collections - University of Baltimore

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I don't make my mind up the week before election, My mind
is made up a long time before election whether a man deserves
to go back or not, and I feel that way. Mr. Keller got me to
work up an Cox Street; somebody didn't show up, and then, as
soon as they could,thcy got somebody in on it . , . Gordon
Parrish had the precinct down here and they wanted me
to take that and I told them no. And then Gordon got sick
and they got me to come down and Gordon wouldn't take it any
more.
HaweS : Parrish who ran the cleaners?
Lewis: Parrish used to live across the street there where
the barber shop is, Of course, he's dead now and Gordon
said no, he wanted me to keep it. And it was alright; I
mean it didn't intexfexe with work any. Of course I didn't
attend any meetings and stuff, I had to go down Election
Board for instruction at the election. And the disgrace of
the whole thing is the city or the state, whoever had charge
of the ELectian Board, does not pay the minimum wage. I don't
know how they getting away with it.
Harvey: So that was your job as a Republican judge at the
polls, you mean?
Lewis: That's the only thing I ever done; I never bothered.
I get literature and stuff, but I get: that mostly because I
liked the different representatives, about things I don't like
or think ought to be done. But out here I don' t think any of the
younger people were really Stoeksdale, he was a judge, he
was a Republican. There are different appointments they get.