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FDR and the Supreme Court
WESTERN UNION TELEGRAM
HON FRANKLIN D ROOSEVLET=
STICK TO YOUR GUNS THE HUMBLE AND THE WEAK AND THE YOUNG AND THE INDIVIDUALLY UNIMPORTANT WHO VOTED FOR YOU IN NOVEMBER BOTH DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS ARE STILL WITH YOU AND ARE COUNTING ON YOU TO SAVE THEM AND THERE COUNTRY FROM THE STRANGLEHOLD OF JUDICIAL SUPREMACY BUT THEY CANNOT AFFORD TELEGRAMS STOP THE ECONOMIC FINANCIAL AND SOCIAL ELITE THE ENTRENCHED MINORITY INCLUDING MOST OF THOSE WHO OWN NEWSPAPERS OR CAN AFFORD TELEGRAMS ARE STILL AGAINST YOU AND ONE OF THEM CAN MAKE MORE NOISE THAN FIFTY ORDINARY VOTERS MY PERSONALLY CONDUCTED POLL SHOWS NEARLY ALL MY NICE NEIGHBORS CORPORATIONS LAWYERS AND EXECUTIVES BROKERS BANKERS HIGHER UPS AND ELDERLY PEOPLE ARE YELLING BLOODY MURDER AGAINST YOU AS HERETOFORE BUT THE MORE NUMEROUS HOUSEHOLD SERVANTS BOTH WHITE AND COLORED TAXI DRIVERS CLERKS STENOGRAPHERS RAILROAD MEN AND YOUNGER PEOPLE ARE STRONGLY BACK OF YOUR EFFORT TO PREVENT FURTHER DISTORTION OF THE CONSTITUTION STOP THE PEOPLE DO NOT WANT TO CHANGE THE CONSTITUTION THEY LIKE IT JUST AS IT STANDS THEY RESENT INTREPRETATION BY REACTIONARY JUDGES IN CONFORMITY WITH THE VIEWS OF THEIR FORMER CLIENTS AND WITH THE OBSOLETE NOTIONS OF ROGER PANEY JOHN W DAVIS AND THE UNION LEAGUE CLUB STOP MOST ORDINARY AMERICANS DO NOT WANT ANYMORE SUCH JUDICIAL AMENDMENTS BUT WANT TO SEE THE CONSTITUTION INTERPRETED ACCORDING TO THE INTENTION OF ITS FRAMERS AND ITS PLAIN LANGUAGE AND ACCORDING TO THE VIEWS OF JOHN MARSHALL ABRAHAM LINCOLN OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES AND NEARLY ALL WRITERS ON CONSTITUTIONAL LAW AND HISTORY STOP HOPE YOU WILL KEEP UP THE FIGHT AND CONTINUE THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS SO THAT THE COUNTRY WILL NOT HAVE THE FRUITS OF NOVEMBERS VICTORY SNATCHED AWAY=
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