Remarks in Dekalb, Illinois
05/09/1905
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We must drive the special interests out of politics.
I stand for the square deal.
I care for the great deeds of the past chiefly as spurs to drive us onward in the present.
By virtue of the power in me vested by the Act of Congress, I do proclaim that the said lands are hereby added to the Si...