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    "ocrText": "IMMEDI T. RELEASE\nIMMEDIATE RELEASE\nREAR PLATFORM REMARKS OF THE PRESIDENT AT\n\"NATIONAL\nARCHIVES AND\nROSEVILLE, CALIFORNIA, at 3:35 p.m.\nRECORDS\nSERVICE\"\nSeptember 22, 1 9 4 8.\nGOVERNMENT\nMr. Mayor, and citizens of this great city in California:\nIt is a pleasure to see you, and I am @lad to be able to say a word\nor two to you XXXXX this afternoon. I had not expected to do that.\nThey told me that the train would not stop here, in the beginning,\nbut it seems that you had enough influence with the Southern Pacific\nRailroad to get it stopped.\nI want to say to you that I think very highly of your\nMayor, and I think you ought to elect him to the State Senate, if\nthat is what he wents to do -- elthough I don't know what you are\ngoing to do for a Mayor.\nI am very much interested in this Valley. Last night\nfrom Salt Lake City I outlined some principles on public power and\npublic power transmission lines, and those policies are the poli-\ncies of the Democratic Party, and have been ever since the Demo-\ncratic Party took control of the Government back in 1932.\nIt has been our policy to develop these great valleys in\nthe country, end to develop these valleys in the interest of the\npeople. These investments -- they are not loans, they are not\ngifts -- these investments in the control of the water resources of\nthis part of the world are for the benefit of the people in this\npart of the territary; and when those water resources are used for\npower purposes, the people ought to be able to obtain that power\nat the same cost that it comes from the dams.\nI don't think anybody ought to share in your investment,\nfor that is what it amounts to. This Republican do nothing/Congress\ntried to choke you to death in this Valley by cutting off appro-\npristions that would have provided for public power lines so that\npower could be brought to those municipalities who want to buy\ndirect from the Government. They did that with melice aforethought\nYou see, the 80th Congress is a special interest Congress,\nand it represents the Republican Party; and the Republican Party\nalways has been a special interest party.\nIf you have your own best interests at heart, on election\nday November the second you will make it a point to turn out and vote.\nIn 1946 a third of you did not vote and you got this special inter-\nest controlled Congress, and you got just what you deserved because\nyou did not go and exercise your franchise. And you will get it\nagain if you don't do it this time -- and I won't feel a bit sorry\nfor you.\nI sincerely hope that all of you will bear that in mind.\nThe most important thing in this country is the free ballot. You\nare the Government. The people of the United States are the Govern-\nment, but when you don't exercise the privilege you have as a citi-\nzen, and if you get bad government, then you haven't anybody else\nto blame for it.\nSo don't forget that on November the second, if you believe\nthat the paramount issue in this campaign is the special interests\nagainst the people, you will go and vote the straight Democratic\nticket, and save the country.\nThat is what I hope you will do. I hope you will join me\nin this crusade to keep the country from going to the dogs.\n#"
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