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LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

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presence of yiddo slays, and associates of the late Mr. Trotsky and the<br />

pressing desire of the Bolshies to get control of the Labor Party.<br />

Why, God alone knows why they want to get hold of the fake<br />

opposition. But still they like to be as ubiquitous as possible.<br />

I wonder, has the Commonwealth party said anything about money,<br />

control of the national power to buy? If so, of course a poll often<br />

thousand against eleven thousand votes for the Big Five, the City, the<br />

Gold exchange, is peculiar.<br />

It might even be a real party … but Lord alone knows … can it be? Is it?<br />

#76 (April 17, 1943) U.S.(C31)<br />

J.G. BLAINE<br />

I was highly diverted, along in January, to hear that American historical<br />

sense had got down to an almost invisible minimum. They were havin’ a<br />

celebration or commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the death of<br />

Mr. Blaine, J.G.B. I couldn’t quote the pertinent document, without a<br />

return to Rapallo, but I note that in late 1880 in August, August 27 to be<br />

exact, of the year wherein Grover Cleveland was elected, a stalwart<br />

Republican, state legislature 1864 and subsequent, Congress 1876 and<br />

subsequent, wrote to General E. Bryant a letter that was reproduced in a<br />

good number of papers western and eastern, includin’ the N.Y. Evening<br />

Post.<br />

The Philadelphia Times called it the most significant of many recent<br />

Republican protests. That is perhaps why Blaine’s commemoration<br />

occurs during a Democratic administration, The Democrats owed him<br />

Cleveland’s elections. It is a two-column letter and I don’t think I can<br />

get it into my time. It began with reference to President Arthur, his<br />

integrity. Regretted that he had not been nominated for the subsequent<br />

term which, being the case, the writer supposed that the nominee should

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