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    "ocrText": "-3-\n(Rochester)\nWell, Itold you part of the record of that 80th\nCongress. I wish I had time to stand here all night and tell\nyou all about it. It would take me all night to do it. They\ndidn't do a thing in your favor -- I can tell you that.\nNow, it is your duty to go to the polls in November\nand elect a Congress that will be genuinely interested in legis-\nlation for the welfare of the country as a whole, and not for\njust a few people. Legislation ought to be for the whole people\nthe whole 145 million of you -- and not for just a few fellows\nwho want to exploit the rest of you. That is the sort of thing\nyou'll get if you stay at home, as you did in 1946. Right here\nin this town you stayed at home in 1946, and if you hadn't stayed\nat home, you might still have Rogers in Congress and have some\nrepresentation that will work for your benefit.\nI have the figures here, and I'm going to assure you\nthat I know exactly what I was talking about when I said that\ntwo-thirds of the people stayed away from the polls. These are\nthe figures: In 1944, this town cast 90 thousand votes --\nthis town cast 93,369 votes for the Democrats and 88, ,762 for the\nRepublicans. In 1946, because you were fat end lazy and didn't\nthink it would make any difference, 55,531 Democrats voted and\n84,862 Republicans voted. Now, there were 4 thousand fewer\nRepublicans who voted in 1946 than vited in 1944, but there were\n45,000 Democrats who didn't vote. And they got just exactly what\nthey deserved -- they got the 80th do-nothing Congress.\nNow, when you do go to the polls in November, I want to\ntell you what you ought to vote for. You ought to vote for a\nparty that believes in holding down prices to a fair level, and\nvote for a party that believes in providing Federal aid to edu-\ncation. That is the best antidote to Communism I know of .\nVote for extending social security instead of cutting it down.\nVote for permanent farm legislation to insure farm prosperity,\nbecause unless the farmers and laborers and small business and\nwhite-collar people are prosperous the country can't be prosperous\nif just one of them exploits the other. That's what the Democratic\nParty stands for. The Democratic Party stands for the people.\nThe Democratic Party is your party. It is the party of the every-\nday man. It's interest is in the whole people and not just one\nsegment of the population.\nWhen you go to the polls, vote for yourself. Vote for\nyourself, and if you vote for yourself, you'll vote the Democratic\nticket -- and I'll stay in the White House another four years,\nand won't be troubled with the housing shortage.\nadidas\nDEPARTMENT\nRECORDS\nSERVICE\"\nB.3."
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