For that party will be able to do in the South what the Republican Party has proved itself incapable of doing, namely, of attracting to itself Southern white men in sufficient numbers to make of it a formidable party of opposition in Southern affairs.
He argues that the new Progressive party has the potential to attract Southern white voters, unlike the Republican Party.
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