I confessed that I was only an average Democrat from Illinois; that way out there we were content to be of the rank and file, and of course to follow the splendid leadership and the gallant Democracy of which we had heard so much.
Stevenson humbly identifies himself as an average Democrat while acknowledging the leadership of his party.
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