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and I am happy with the number of you that fit into that

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mold as far as I personally am concerned.

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A hundred years ago in my state of Mississippi

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was the last time that a Negro was elected to an elective

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post in that fair state until a few weeks ago. A few

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weeks ago following legislative action on the part of

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Congress and the interest of the President of the United

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States, several Negroes were elected to comparatively

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nominal posts such as justice of the peace or elections

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officials.

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Mr. President and members of this Convention,

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since these liberals have been successful at the polls

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the big bankers up North made it practically impossible

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for them to take office because they could not secure

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bonds. On one mere job that paid practically nothing

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they were requiring a man to nay $170,000 in order that he

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could take his office on December 31.

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Mr. President, they even came to the fair city

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of Baltimore to a couple of our largest banks in an effort

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to secure bonds, and at the present time some of them,

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by going all the way to New York City and all up north in an