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Now for more than thirty years that party has been merely an opposition party, opposed to everything that we proposed, and having no principles or propositions of their own to present.
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Sherman critiques the Democratic party for lacking principles and merely opposing Republican proposals for over thirty years.
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This power in the hands of a few is at this moment the disturbing element in many of our great industries.
That is all we ask, and what we demand at all hazards.
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