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    "ocrText": "-2-\nMankato\nYou will find the big electric trusts, electric power trusts, fighting\nevery municipal plant in the country. They try to surround them and choke\nthem off.\nOf course, the Democrats supported R. E. A. The Democratic Party is\nalways on the side of the people, just as you'll find the Republican Party\nalways on the side of special interests. That has been the case ever since\nthe Republican Party got power in Washington. The Republican Party will not\nadmit in an election year that it is opposed to cooperatives. They put a\nweasel-word into the cooperatives plank of their platform when they said\nthey would support -- now listen; this is a direct quote from the Republican\nplatform - \"The principle of bonafide farmer-owned, farmer-operated co-\noperatives.\"\nNow, the Democratic Party indulges in no such double talk. We say\nflatly that we will encourage farm cooperatives, period.\nYet, only a third of the registered voters turned out to vote in 1946.\nThe Republicans took over Congress as a result. The Republicans began their\nattack on cooperatives. They started an investigation of cooperatives in an\neffort to smear them. I know something about Congressional investigations.\nI was Chairman of that special committee that was formed to investigate the\nNational Defense Program during the war, and I think I carried on more in-\nvestigations than any other Senator in the history of the Senate over that\nthree-year period. And we didn't carry on smear investigations. We carried\non investigations for the purpose of introducing legislation to cure ills\nof the Country. You won't find that the case with these present-day inves-\ntigating committees. They are trying to investigate us out of office.\nThey are after Democrats --- they are not after the welfare of the Country.\nDo you know how you can stop this attack on cooperatives? It's very\neasy. There's only one way. That is to come out and vote on November the\nsecond, and get your friends to come out and vote; and as I said all over\nthe Country, vote in your own interests, vote for yourselves. When you\nvote the Democratic Ticket, you are not only voting for me and this good\nman who is running for the Senate in Minnesota, and the Congressman --\nyou are voting for yourselves and your own interests.\nYou, the people, are the Government; and when you exercise your right\nto vote, you run the Government, and when you don't exercise your vote --\nas you didn't exercise exercise it in 1946-you get such things as that\n80th Congress, and you get just what you deserve when you do that because\nyou shirkedyour duty.\nNow, get up early on election day, go down to the polls and vote for\nyourselves. And when you do that, you'll vote a straight Democratic ticket\nand you'll have the Country in safe hands for another four years, and the\nPresident won't be obliged to be troubled by the housing problem -- I can\nstay in the Write House another four years.\n####"
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