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We reorganized the Democratic Party with one plank and only one plank, namely, that this is a white man's country and the white men must govern it.

— Benjamin Tillman Regarding the Democratic Party's goals (1909)

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Source: Regarding the Democratic Party's goals (1909), as quoted in Voices of Civil War America: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life, by Lawrence Kreiser and Ray B. Browne, p. 27.
Work: Regarding the Democratic Party's goals, 1909
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