Charles LeRoy Lewis - Special Collections - University of Baltimore

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what I wanted, told him who X was, told him I was Republican
and he was a Democrat. I said I need this letter and I'd
like to get it. He asked me to go to the union, I told all
the businessmen, Paul , Billy Burns, Charlie Benson,
Cavacos. He said that's enough; so he told me he
said give me a call tomorrow night. Next night he called me
he said it's in the mail for you - I'm sending you a letter,
a copy of the letter to send to the other party as a letter-
of introduction I told hrm,
I said anytime you got a candidate that"^ in trouble, I'm
as close as the telephone. He never did call me up to support
anybody.
But, I mean I never worried whether a man was Democratic
or Republican, never worried me. And my wife up until recent
years has always registered Democrat. My wife and I went in to
register together because we were about the same age. They
laughed like the dickens. . . Boy, ain't that a family, she's
Democrat and he's Republican, I said look, I never told my wife
how to vote; 1 always polls . I go, I know
the average person don't figure it but it costs you twenty,
twenty-five dollars a year tax to go to the polling places.
And it w ill figure twenty or twenty-five dollars before I 'm
going to exercise the right to let them count it. And
that' s the way people should feel.
Hawes:
Mr. Lewis, what about Frank Robey - when did he
start to be involved in politics?
Lewis: I imagine Frank started probably in the twenties -
a little after the early twenties, Because he worked in the