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tight.
that all Americans can see a
doctor when they need him.
And 1 think it's right that
candidate say what he plans to
do about it.
And l submit that although
the Republican campaign is get
ting shriller every day, it hasn't
yet produced a single new idea.
And the cleareSt thing about
the world we live in is that it
needs new ideas, even as the
earth needs rain.
Differences in Two Parties
Beyond the specific ISSUES in
this campaign are the broader
questions of the basic differences
between the two parties.
| 1t is important to ask: What
is the difference in basic consti-
tuition and basic philosophy be-
tween our two parties, what the
grounds are on which we Demo-
Gratis seek the awesome RESPONSE
bility of governing the United
States.
\ 1t is not enough that the Re-
! publicanS are in Office and we
are out. The American people
want to know and have a right
to know why we Democrats feel
We deserve their trust and the
Republicans do not.
say that there are very great
differences between the two
parties. These differences have
been growing throughout this
century, especially since the days
of Woodrow Wilson.
With the defeat of the Demo-
cratic Party in 1920, the govern
ment passed back to the control
of the coalition of moneymakers
and isolationists who had domi-
mated the Republican Party so
long. This old guard defeated
the League of Nations. 1t pre-
sided over the Wall Street boom
that illuminated in the great de-
preston. 1t fought the great So
cial reforms, the modernization
lof America. under Roosevelt,
every step of the way, and its
political successors are still de-
inouncing the New Deal, although
they don't repeal any of it and
proudly proclaim their liberal
iobjectives-at least once every
four years.
During these years of the '2Os
and early '30s a new and Wig
orous Democratic Party had
found a new meaning, a new
purpose and a new usefulness in
the Nations despair under the
leadership of Franklin Roosevelt.
! Once more the people needed
the peoples party.
A Product of Their Past
All political organizations re-
main a product of their past.
The Democratic Party remains
the party of the people. If there
is one thing which, more than
anything else, distinguishes US
from our OPPONENTS it is this:
We trust the people"
/. The Republican Party has re-
manned the party of those with
a primary interest in money and
profit. 1t remains the party Of
the rich and powerful. And to-
day, as 80 years ago, the Repub-
lican Party still bears the linger-
ing heritage of its historic isola-
tioniSm and responsibility in
foreign affairs.
| deeply regret this irrespon-
sibility where foreign policy is
concerned. In the last four years
we have paid heavy price in
world influence for the appease-
ment by the Eisenhower ad-
ministration of the old guard
Republicans.
No Reason for Protest
But. in domestic affairs, see
no reason for protest against the
Republican Party'S representa-
ton of wealth, power and big
ness. In our two party system
the honest representation of
these important, albeit limited,
interests is the historic task of
the Republican Party.
We heard Secretary of the In
terror Douglas Mckay say early
in 1858. that I'VE are here in
the saddle as an administration
representing business and in
dustry."
We heard Secretary of De-
Tense Charles Wilson say.
Whats good for General Motors
is good for the country"
But these were authentic
voices of honest Repulbicanism
Yet Secretary Wilson was told he
would have to stop talking and
Secretary Mckay was given even
worse punishment - ne was
shipped back to Oregon TO rur
against Senator Wayne Morse
a Republican who couldn't stand
it any longer and had the cour-
age in 1852 to follow his con-
science out of this Republican
Party. And 1852, l remind you.
was a doubtful year for Demo-
Gratis at best!
President Eisenhower's cab.-
net reflects the true spirit OF the
Republican Party. The qualifica-
tons were not past public serv-
ice. The criterion was financial
success He chose a cabinet of
business managers and million
aires. I have said that the party
of Lincoln has become the party
Of Cadillac, but this is exactly
the kind of cabinet we should
expect and should have in a
Republican administration.
When Republican admins
tration forthrightly represents
the special interests of the rich
and powerful. well l see every
reason for opposing that repre-
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