Charles LeRoy Lewis - Special Collections - University of Baltimore

LEWIS;099 II:2:61
Lewis: Well, they'd have their different candidates in the
primary - PoLlack might be supporting this one, Robey support-
ing that one. And then, f mean this was something w ith any-
one in politics . . . they all got their watchers out and
nobody knows how you!.re voting exactly, but they haw just
about. f used to didn't vote until about 4 o'clock in the
evening because I'd find out what the score was : they made
a deal they're going to put one candidate in front of another
one, so you vote that way, if they were good men, of course.
But it's still done today in the primaries. Cut them
the Last minute . . . 1'11 tell you - you don't think this
election with Hughes was done because sf popularity, I hope.
I hope you not that . . .the word come down we going to
knock him out and we're going to put Hughes in - it was all
done after, say, 11 or 12 o'clock. Nokdy had a chance. I
mean, just like voting . . . today you talk to a person
about cutting the ticket they don't even know what you're
talking about.
Do you know what cutting the ticket is? Do you know
how to cut a ticket? I mean, even when you went to vote, a
man says cut your ticket for my man . . , do you know what
he means? Well, I'll tell you what it means * . .There's
four people running, six people running for five offices.
Instead of voting for five, you vote for his candidate alone
and give him one vote over everybody. And today you don't
even hear it discussed. It's like today people are not
educated you do not need an education. They
cannot borrow money unless it's approved by the voters and