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firm. They can't make any progress through their government. Eventually they won't trust their government any more. That's what always happens if they don't stick around two or three rallying points. A party's a rallying point.
“Suppose you got some good ideas. All right. You go to the party you belong to and you'll be listened to inside the party. They listen to your good ideas. They listen to your good ideas about the administration. They listen to your good ideas about who ought to be appointed and what they'll do if they are appointed. You've got a group to whom you can really tell the truth. You can really lay it right on the line - all of it. You can't go out and say that to the public because you just sound like a fool. There's nobody back of you. So when you get all ready to announce your program, if your party is all ready set, or just one little segment of it - one ward in one county - has said okay to your project, your problem, your proposal, then they make the proposal before the state convention, let's say, or the county convention, or the city convention. They all holler ‘Yes, yes.' So you make the speech. They're all for it and they put it over. They make it popular. It doesn't seem like a one-man crank idea.
“Let's say there's an ill-will fellow who owns more factories or has more money than he should have who opposes
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