Show AMERICA FIRST AND AMERICA AMERICA AMER AMER- ICA EFFICIENT We come to state In a plain and direct m manner our faith our purpose and our pledge This representative gathering isa Is Isa Is is' a happy augury It means the strength of reunion It means that the party of Lincoln Is restored restored re- re stored alert effective It means the unity of a common perception perception tion of paramount national needs heeds It means that we are neither deceived nor benumbed by abnormal conditions We know that we are arc in a critical period perhaps more critical than any period since the Civil War We need a dominant sense of national unity the ex exercise exercise of our best constructive powers the vigor and resourcefulness resource resource- of a quickened America We desire that the Republican Party as a great liberty party shall be the agency of national achievement the organ of the tha th effective expression of tf dominant Americanism What do I 1 mean by that I mean America con con- of power awake av to obligation obligation obligation I gation erect in self-respect self prepared pre pre- prepared pared for every emergency devoted de de- devoted voted to the ideals of pc peace ce Instinct In- In instinct Instinct with the spirit of human brotherhood safeguarding both Individual opportunity and the public interest maintaining a well-ordered well constitutional system system system tem adapted o local self govern ment without the sacrifice of essential national authority appreciating appreciating appreciating ap ap- the I of stability stability sta sta- expert knowledge and thorough organization as the indispensable in dispensable conditions of security se se- security I I and progress a country I loved by its citizens with a patriotic patriotic pa pa- I fervor permitting n division divi i sion In their allegiance and no I rivals In their affection I I mean America first and America effi effi clent It is In this spirit that I respond to your summons From Mr Hughes' Hughes speech of accept ac ac- |