From Wheeling the Eisenhower special went southeastward across the Alleghenies to stop at Martinsburg, W.Va. Ike picked up a motorcade for a short circuit across western Maryland, reboarded his train at Frederick, rolled through the suburbs of Washington, then northward to Baltimore.
Over & over again the story was repeated at the whistle stops: a popular turnout that defied comparison—even for memories that stretched all the way back to William Jennings Bryan. Democratic Baltimore, which had just barely mustered a welcome for Adlai Stevenson earlier in the week, turned out 100,000 strong to line the streets for Eisenhower. After dinner at the...
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