"Sometimes," he said, "I am asked what it is that we want, we men
who are standing behind Hendricks as an independent candidate." He
was supposed to bring Mr. Hendricks' name in as often as possible.
"I answer that we want honest government, law and order, an end to
this conviction that the country is owned by the unions and the
capitalists, a fair deal for the plain people, which is you and I,
my friends. But I answer still further, we want one thing more, a
greater thing, and that thing we shall have. All through this great
country to-night are groups of men hoping and planning for an
incredible thing. They are not great in numbers; they are, however,
organized, competent, intelligent and deadly. They plow the land
with discord to sow the seeds of sedition. And the thing they want
is civil war.
"And against them, what? The people like you and me; the men with
homes they love; the men with little businesses they have fought
and labored to secure; the clerks; the preachers; the doctors, the
honest laborers, the God-fearing rich. I tell you, we are the
people, and it is time we knew our power.
"And this is the thing we want, we the people; the greater thing,
the thing we shall have; that this government, this country which
we love, which has three times been saved at such cost of blood,
shall survive.
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