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Adlai Stevenson: “The fact may be conceded, the proof overwhelming, that the honest voice of a State has been overthrown by outrage and…”

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The fact may be conceded, the proof overwhelming, that the honest voice of a State has been overthrown by outrage and fraud, and yet the chosen tribunal of the people has entered of solemn record that there is no remedy.
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Adlai Stevenson

Editor's note · Context

He acknowledges the overwhelming evidence of electoral fraud while criticizing the lack of remedies for it.

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