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OCR Page 1 of 13DRAFT OF 4/4/47
Democrats
SERVISE
My Fellow Citisens:
Our meeting together this evening carries forward an old party
custom. In this annual tribute to the memory of Thomas Jefferson, we,
who are members of the party he founded - the Democratic Party - take
great pride and feel * deep satisfaction.
We know that as long as we remain free, the spirit of Thomas
Jefferson lives in America. His spirit is the spirit of freedom. We
are heartened by the knowledge that the light he kindled a century and a
half ago shines today, in the United States. It shines even more strongly
and steadily than in his time. What was then an untried faith is now,
for us, a living reality.
But we know that no class, no party, no nation, has a monopoly
on Jefferson's principles. Out of the silence of oppressed peoples, out
of the despair of those who have lost freedom, there comes to us an expres-
sion of longing. Repeated again and again, in many tongues, from many
directions, it is a pleá of men, women and children for the freedom that
Thomas Jefferson proclaimed as an inalienable right.
When we hear the cry for freedom arising from shores beyond
our own we can take heart from the words of Thomas Jefferson. In his
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