The Archive · 1939

What The People Want

"Today on Jackson's Day," the President said, "the majority of the American people want only a President who honestly cares for them and a party which anxiously and with unity is seeking a way to serve them without regard for personal or political fortunes.

"Less than half the people are Republican because more than half the voters are for the Democratic Party whenever the Democratic Party is for the majority of the people.... If we deliver in full our contract to the American people, we need never fear the Republican Party as long as it commands the support of—and in fact is down underneath actually dir-[ceted by—the same people who have owned that party for generations. For the American Liberty League, unless I am incorrectly informed, still functions as the solicitor for political contributions and for spreadin* shopworn propaganda."—United Press.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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