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up our national power, policy. They had made so many cuts in funds,
and included so many restrictions, that a severe power shortage
is likely to result in many sections of the country. They even
refused funds for the Tennessee Valley Authority to build a steam-
plant to help furnish power needed for our work on atomic energy.
I thought that they would be glad of a chance to
correct this mistake. But no, sir. They must have consulted their
Republican candidate for President and learned his view that the
TVA is wonderful, but we ought never to do anything like it again.
Finally, I urged the special session to act on
legislation to protect the basic rights of citizenship and human
liberty. The Republican Party has been paying lip-service to
legislation for this purpose for many years. But when the showdown
comes, they never quite manage to get it through.
The performance of the do-nothing Congress during
the past two years and particularly the "do less than nothing"
special session, has given the country a foretaste of what will
happen if the Republican Party is successful at the polls.
The people of Ohio, and particularly the residents
of Cleveland, will long remember 1932, when the Republican Party,
under the leadership of Herbert Hoover, was in power.
Many of you can remember the smokeless smokestacks,
the idle plants, the closed banks, the long bread lines, the soup
kitchens. And you can also remember the assurance you received
from the Republicans that prosperity was just around the corner.
It was the Democratic Party under the leadership
of Franklin D. Roosevelt that lifted this Nation from the worst
depression it has ever known.
It was the Democratic Party that inspired and
inaugurated a program of social legislation that restored
democratic government to its proper place as the servant
of the people and not the agent of a few.
The Democratic Party stands ready to serve the Nation --
ready to serve all citizens and not just the vested interests,
ready to carry forward its "fundamental philosophy" that has done
so much for America in the last sixteen years.
During the last two years, the Democratic Party has had
to spend most of its time and energy in saving the Democratic
program -- the New Deal -- from Republican attacks.
We Democrats don't like this. We feel it is a bad thing
to spend so much time in preventing the Republicans from turning
the clock backward. We would much rather move forward.
What this country needs is not a new President, but a new
Congress.
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