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ocratic party, are those who have fought through the years for the future of the principles embodied in this alliance of men and women, who believe in free government and individual rights.
"I urge this convention to larm those who ore to represent us at the National Convention with the support and wholehearted backing that will make them an influence far out of proportion to their number; and I pray that our dele* gation will be joined by others, sufficient in character and vigor, to return the Democratic Party to its rightful place and to the paths of our forebears.
“I say to the purveyors and practitioners of those spurious doctrines which now threaten to engulf us that we will not be fettered and enchained. We will not servilely genuflect to ‘Trumanism’ and ‘Fair Deal ism.’ We will not be suppressed by iniquitous FEPC acts, the unrestrained tyranny of union bosses, or the wanton profligacy of governmental, wastrels. We will not be driven in the full embrace of socialism, nor its Russian counterpart, Communism. We will not capitulate, nor give quarter to any foe of Americanism and free institutions, whether he seeks to cloak himslef in the raiment of a Democrat or a Republican. We shall battle for right and high principle in the counties and the cities, on the roads and highways, on the creek banks and the branch heads, in the convention halls and wherever else injusticeand ...evil .raise their j&ada^
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