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"We cannot deal here in polite language and evasive phrase. The hour is too late. The stakes are too high. Easy diplomacy and kid glove politics will not do. We-Jy^yc no place for political cowards. We must lead our country from dark* ness into light, from great sin to ffr*at virtues, from crime to righteousness, from insane extrava* gance to sensible frugality, and from political frailty to exemplary principal and honorable purpose. Nothing less will do. The National Democratic Party as at present constituted, cannot long endure. Its very vitals^ have been eaten awgy by an insidious rot, foisted **• I* by politically ruthless, unprincipled and conscienceless men, more concerned with winning elections and a distribution of favors than with preserving a system of
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