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    "ocrText": "IMMEDIATE RELEASE\nIMMEDIATE RELEASE\nREAR PLATFORM REMARKS OF THE PRESIDENT AT\nNATIONAL\nLORDSBURG, NEW MEXICO\nRECORDS\nSERVICE\nSEPTEMBER 25, 1948, 7.35 am,mst\nGovernor, Lieutenant Governor, the Candidate for the Senate of\nthe United States, and the Secretary of State, and all the other dis-\ntinguished members of the New Mexico delegations here to meet me\n--\nand fellow Democrats:\nIt certainly is a pleasure to see all these good people out here\nat this early hour in the morning. Of course, 7.30 is not nearly so\nearly in New Mexico as it is in Washington. Washington people, you\nknow, have a habit of not getting up until along toward mid-day, and\nthey can't understand why the President of the United States gets up at\n5.30 every morning.\nI am acquainted with your industries in this part of the world,\nprincipally mining and stock-raising and farming under irrigation; and\nI am here to inform you that in 1932 the residents of New Mexico had an\nincome of less than 100 million dollars.\nDo you know what it was in 1947? It was 500 million dollars,\nwhich is five times what it was under the Republicans.\n13 times as many farms in New Mexico have electricity now as\nhad electricity in 1932. And the farmers are earning about 8 times\nas much money as they did in 1932.\nNow, if there is any farmer or miner or working man who is\nfoolish enough to want to turn the clock back, he ought to vote the\nRepublican ticket. Otherwise, he had better vote for himself when he\nvotes for me.\nThe business firms of New Mexico have prospered under Democratic\nadministrations. New Mexico has been benefited, because Democrats\nbelieve in developing the West, and because we work to bring prosperity\nto allthe people, not just a few at the top; and that is the difference\nbetween the Democratic policy and the Republican policy. Republicans\nbelieve in special interests. They believe in taking care of special\ninterests. I have talked to Congressman after Congressman, and Senator\nafter Senator on this trip, who have been in the do nothing 80th\nCongress, and every one of them says that on every Committee he finds\nthat the Republicans are always working to take care of big business,\nand they don't care what happens to the fellow down below.\nNow you have got a chance here in New Mexico to keep the policy\nof the Democrats going. You know, my former Secretary of Agriculture\ncame down here to run for the Senate, and he is one of the best\nSecretaries of Agriculture this country has ever had; and I have got a\ngood one now, too. But I want you to be sure that you send a Democratic\ndelegation to the Congress. I want to see Clinton Anderson in the\nSenate, and I want you to send Democrats to the House. Then you will\nbe doing your duty for the public, and by yourselves.\nI have been preaching this doctrine all the way across the\ncountry. We are in a crusade out here. We are either going to go\nbackwards, or we are going forward in this atomic energy age, and we\nare going to have the greatest age in history, if you people decide\nwhat is best for the country. I hope you will do that. I know you\nwill do that, because you understand the situation.\nNow, on election day, don't stay at home, don't do like you did\nin 1946, when you elected that good for nothing \"do nothing\" 80th\nCongress. When you study the record of that Congress, it is stagger-\ning the things they did to you, and the things they did not do that\nthey should have done. They tried to cut the throat of the West,\nand I had to come out here and tell you about it.\nI can cite you chapter and verse in the Congressional Record,\nwhenever you want it, as to how these people performed.\nI do thank you most sincerely for turning out this morning.\nIt is a wonderful tribute to your interest in the political situation\nin the country at this time.\nThank you very much."
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