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of woman suffrage, but was quite willing to have me speak immediately following the communion service.  In the afternoon I spoke in the park from the steps of the band pavilion to hundreds of people, and in the evening to hundreds and hundreds more,again from a wobbly chair, again for nearly two hours and again pelted with questions,on civic and political matters.  And with whom do you suppose I had the pleasure and privilege of spending the night and of being with all that part of Sunday when I was not speaking?  I was in the home of Mr.and Mrs.A.E.Adams, a leading banker, and the brother of Professor Comfort Adams, your friend.  Mr. and Mrs.Adams are most delightful people, deeply interested in the social awakening of our country, and ready to serve in any and every capacity that the hour may demand.  I spent the night at their home and then went to Cleveland where I spoke to several thousand people in the public square, for about an hour and a half.  I wonder if you know that Tom Johnson established free speech in Cleveland by placing three great flat granite stones at three different corners of the great square to be used by every one to say what may be in his heart and mind.  No permit is needed and there you stand with the right to free discussion secured in one of the great cities of our America.  If he had never in his life done anything else, this fact alone would prove an enduring memorial to the genius and patriotism of Tom L.Johnson.  I was so thrilled by