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Well-poised, the Candidate did not rashly claim Pennsylvania but did declare that Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut are "all right," and that "the tide has turned!" In Manhattan, betting odds dropped from 5 to 1 against the Derby to 3½ to 1. Prudent, the Candidate rested for a day at Claymont, Del., with Mr. and Mrs. John J. Raskob and eleven children. Then, unbedraggled, crisp and confident, the "bronzer"— trooped buoyantly on.
Arriving in Baltimore, Governor Smith joined a motorcade which slowly wended its way along Cathedral street, which was lined on both sides with ten-deep crowds, with a preponderance of women.
*She had spoken tersely, beginning as follows: 'To my mind, there are three fundamental issues in this campaign, each going to the very heart of our government itself.
"The first is party responsibility. When a party by vote of the people goes into office, it assumes responsibility for all and everything its accredited officers do or have not done. . . . A vote for the Republican Party indorses its record of crimes. . . .
"The second is intolerance. Every one of your ancestors and mine came to this country because they believed that here was equal opportunity and religious tolerance, that any boy of brains and integrity could rise as high as his own talents would permit. . . .
"The third issue I call 'silence.' There can be no democracy without free discussion of the people's problems, no representative government unless the people know what the candidate stands for and the candidate knows what the people want. . . ."
†Democratic and Republican newspapers, almost without exception, said that the Smith reception had far surpassed Lindbergh's. The most emotional story was despatched by Robert Barry of the New York Evening World. The Boston Herald contributed a new version of an old jingle:
Alas for the City of Boston.' Her exclusiveness now is a myth:
The Lowells are walking with Hoover, The Cabots are strolling with Smith. —Smithsynonym for "Brown Derby."