Charles LeRoy Lewis - Special Collections - University of Baltimore

southerners were . . .
LEWISi099 XI: 1:52
Lewis: They were Democrats: they sympathisized with the
South and so on.
Hawes : The southerners were Protestants.
Lewis: They were Protestants, but they were Democrats.
A lot of these people come up here to work, but most of
them big land owners if you look down there you'd findthey were.
And same way with Southern Maryland. In other wards, Federal
Hill; the Federal troops fortified that, and that's why the
Baltimore Merchant was in trouble. They'd have the
city down. And the first bloodshed really shed in the Civil
War between troops was Massachusetts Regiment at Light and
Pratt Streets when the southern sympathizers here in Maryland
attacked them, they had to shoot at them. But those are the
things, but out here we never had anyone to speak of. You
had ward leaders . . . I'm just trying to think . . . got a
whole Democrat ward do me a favor in the late twenties.
I forget the name - Bob . . . lived over on University
Parkway. And I called him up -thg. do favors for Republicans
as well as you would the Democrats. You could go to a Demo-
crat with a favor; if he felt like doing it, he did it; if
he didn't he didn't want ta tell you no. In other words,
Cliff Case, he was Secretary to a Congressman. And he
couldn't do what I wanted; I wanted a letter. Frank Robey
at that time was clerk down here and I said, "Prankn. He
said no, he was in a different one, so I was sitting home
and I can't think of that fellow's name - Bob; I never met
him until later in the gear - X called him up and told him