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'democrat In this nation will sign it,
'.tor I bolicvo this is the best way to
'get the party organized.
A. .7. Ellas, of Elias & Bro., Lumber
:Co., Buffalo, N. Y. In sending you
herein this primary pledge I do not
Xeel that I have assumed any new ob-iin-nHrm
fnr fho reaHon that I have
always attended the primaries in the
'past and it is and always has been my
.'intention to do so in the future, al
though in my election district ward,
assembly, senatorial, and congression
al districts all are overwhelmingly
republican. Nevertheless you will
please file my pledge and add my
name to your roll of democrats who
want the democratic party to bo dem
ocratic in fact as well as in name. I
hope to see incorporated in the next
democratic platform municipal owner
ship of public utilities in cities, state
ownership of railroads in states and
national ownership of interstate lines
of railroads, a national telegraph
and telephone, postal savings banks,
postal parcel post and all other need
ed and desirable reforms and all ad
ditional governmental advantages for
tho people which can properly and
eafely bo undertaken by the govern
ment. I also hope to see all those
who call themselves democrats, yet
do not believe in the platforms of
1896 and 1900 and who still do not be
lieve in the principles enunciated
therein, outside tho democratic party
during the next campaign. I am in
favor of getting apart rather than
getting together the Irreconcilable ele
ments of tho Darty. The apparent
support in 1900 of the ticket by the
element that opposed it in 189G Is
what defeated the ticket (in 1900)
and I hope that in the next national
convention the majority will be such
men as dominated in the 1896 convention.
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Travels, Speeches, Lectures.
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Cuban Republic." Ho also included his locturos on "A Conquoring Nation," and "Tho Value
of an Ideal."
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Vinoyard," tho addross at tho gravo of Philo Sherman Bonnott; Democracy's Appoal to
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