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    "ocrText": "- 2 -\nAnd I'm proud of the breed I represent -- the completely\nunterrified form of American Democracy. I stand for the simple, straight-\nforward, straight-line Democratic Party. That party has always stood\nfor government in the interest of the farmer and the working man and\nall the people of this great country.\nAnd any time you have any doubts about the Democratic Party\nall you need to do is take a good look at the Republican Party. That\nwill always bring you right back.\nThis year we've all had a good look at the Republican Party\nand their candidate, and it's made me fighting mad. That's why I'm\nhere today talking to you good people of North Carolina.\nThis year the Republicans are putting on a terrific advertis-\ning campaign in order to sell you the same old brand of Hoover carts.\nThey're spending money in carload lots and are buying themselves all\nkinds of strange bedfellows. But there are some things that are not\nfor sale in this country.\nI don't believe they're going to get away with it. Everybody --\nSouth and North -- knows that there's only one choice in this campaign.\nEither the standard Republicans will buy the election or the standard\nDemocrats will win.\nOther parties simply don't stand a chance.\nFor a Southerner that ought not to be a hard choice. You know\nwhat Republicanism means in North Carolina and everywhere else in the\nSouth.\nFirst it meant rule by the carpet-baggers. Then it meant rule\nby the money-baggers. Either way, it means a rule that treats the South\nand the West as colonies to be exploited commercially and held down\npolitically.\nRepublicanism means that the Federal Government is controlled\nby the powerful men and the greedy Wall Street interests that want cheap\nlabor and cheap farm products. Republicanism puts the almighty dollar\nfirst and is not above using a little tidelands oil money to grease the\nway to power.\nToday big-money Republicanism is on the march, and to beat it\nwe've all got to stand together. That's where we Democrats belong --\ntogether -- shoulder to shoulder.\nWe are the great middle-of-the-road party -- the party of the\nfarmers and the workers and the small businessmen and the party of the\nyoung people. We all belong together. I believe in loyalty as the\ngreat force in politics -- the loyalty of free men and women, freely\ngiven and honorably received.\nBut above all I treasure the basic principle of democracy\nitself -- the right to disagree among ourselves, without letting\ndifferences of opinion lead us into temptation to betray our own best\ninterests.\nThat is why I do not worry too much about the many violent\narguments we Democrats have. I think that there will be plenty of\nDemocrats on election day as long as we retain respect for free speech\nand get a fair and honest count at the polls.\nJust the same, I hope that somewhere in North Carolina you\nhave a Hoover cart on display -- lest you forget that the Republicans\nwant you to take another ride in the same old wagon.\nIn the 1920's, the Republican Party could not fight depression.\nIt was incapable of bold action for the people. The Big Business owners\nof that dismal party said there was gothing to do but \"ride it out.\"\nYou did -- in Hoover carts."
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