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free government without peer in recorded history. It is an unparalleled heritage that these * men would sacrifice at the altar of political greed and venality, a heri tage we enjoy because our valiant forebears willed it to us by the dint of faith, sacrifice and service.
“From the high principles and standards of Jefferson, Jackson, Cleveland, and Wilson and from these lofty human endeavors the National Democratic Party has i)een plunged into a dismaT abyss by the usurpers of its hallowed name. Never before has so much power rested in such impotent and palsied hands; never before has the civilized world been so cursed and afflicted.
“Not only the South, but the country as a whole, virtually has been sold into Socialism by the architects of Democratic doom who have traded our party principles for a mess of Pendergast pottage. The South has been humiliated and vilified. The American people have been oppressively taxed, restricted, regulated, and regimented. The Federal debt, already astronomical, is augmented daily, despite the greatest tax burden in our peacetime history.
“The so-called Fair Employment Practices Commission — the diabolical FEPC—is but one sample of the vehicles by which the vote hungry, power-crazed scavengers of our party seek to ride into office at the expense of constitutional government and honest, law abiding citizens. Those who conceived and agitated this scheme have no interest in the welfare of the citizens of this country; their purpose is to kowtow to pressure groups and minority blocs whose strategically placed vote may elevate some unprincipled politician to public office. It is of no concern to such ambitious purveyors of falsehood that in so doing they
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