All right, how right. Thank, you thank you. Thank you, thank you very much. I cant i have to have my practice. Im sorry that the microphones are in your way, but they have to be where they are because i have to be able to see what im doing. As i always am able to see what im doing. [applause] i can tell you how very much i appreciate the honor, which youve just conferred upon me. I shall continue to try to deserve it. I accept the nomination. [applause] and i want to thank this convention for its unanimous nomination of my good friend and colleague, senator berkeley, of kentucky. Hes a great man, and a great public servant. Senator berkeley and i will win this election, and make these republicans, like dont forget that. We will do that by proving to you in a few minutes, that we are right and they are wrong. This convention met to express the will and reaffirmed the bliss of the Democratic Party, there have been differences of opinion and that is the democratic way. Those differences have been settled, by a majority of voters, as it should be. Now its time for us to get together and beat the common enemy, thats up to you. We will be working together for victory in the great cause. The victory has become a habit of our party, its been elected four times in succession, and i convinced it will be elected a fifth time, this november. The reason is, the people now the Democratic Party is the peoples party, in the Republican Party is their party of and it always has been, and i will always be. For the record of the Democratic Party, is written in the accomplishments of the last 16 years. I dont need your to repeat them, they have been very able in place before this convention, by the keynote speaker, the candidate for Vice President , and by the chairman. Confidence and security have been brought to the American People like the Democratic Party. Farm income has increased from less than two and a half Million Dollars in 1933, two more than 18 Million Dollars in 1947. Never in the world, where the farmers of any republic or any kingdom or any other country, as prosperous as the farmers of the United States. And if they if they dont do their duty by the Democratic Party they are the most ungrateful people in the world. Wages and salaries in the country have increased from 29 Million Dollars, in 1933, two more than 120 billion dollars in 1947. Thats the labor and labor never had but one friend in politics, and that is a Democratic Party, and franklin d. Roosevelt. And ill try to labor what he said to the farmers, they are the most ungrateful people in the world if they passed a Democratic Party by this year. The total National Income has increased more than 40 billion dollars in 1933, to 203 billion dollars in 1947. The greatest in all the history of the world. These benefits have been spread to all the people because its the business of the Democratic Party to see that the people get a fair share of these things, this last city of congress proves just the opposite for the republicans. The record on Foreign Policy of the Democratic Party, is that the United States, has been turned away permanently from isolationism. And weve converted the greatest investment of the republicans to our viewpoint on that subject. The United States has to accept its full responsibility, for a leadership in international affairs. We have been the backers, and the people who organize and start, the United Nations, first started under that great democratic president , wilson, as the league of nations. The lead was sabotaged by the republicans in 1920, and we must see that the United Nations continues a strong and going, so we can have everlasting peace in the world. We removed the trade barriers in the world, which is the best asset we can have for peace. Large trade barriers must not be put back into operation again. We have started a foreign aid program, that spans do recovery of europe and china, and the far east. We are the programs for turkey, and ill say to you, that all these things were done in a cooperative bipartisan manner. The Foreign Relations committee of the senate and the house, were taken into the full confidence of the president in every one of these moves, and dont let anybody tell you anything else. As ive said time and time again, Foreign Policy should be the policy of the whole nation. And not a policy of one party or the other. Partisanship should stop at the waters edge, and i shall continue to preach that through this whole campaign. Id like to say a word or two, now, about what i think the republican philosophy is. And i will speak from actions and from history. And from experience. The situation in 1932 was due to the policies of the Republican Party control of the government of the United States. The Republican Party, as i said a while ago, favors the privileged to and not the common everyday man. Ever since this inception, that party has been under the control of special privileged and concretely proved it in the area of congress. They proved it by the things they did to the people, and not for them. They proved it by the things they failed to do. Let us look at some of them, just a few. Time and time again, i recommend the extension of price control, before it expired on june 30th 1946. I asked for that extension in september 1945. In november 1945, in a message on the state of the union, in 1946, that price control legislation did not come to my desk until june 30th, 1946 on the day in a way its supposed to expire. And it was such a rotten bill, and i could not sign it. 30 days after that, they sent me one that i had to sign it, because it couldnt land home. I was silent when someone died, and the price got adjusted in sales, for the benefit of the country. Theyve adjusted themselves are right, theyve gone all the way off the charts in adjusting themselves at the expense of the consumer, and for the benefit of the people who hold the goods. I call a special session of congress, november 19, november the 17th 1947, and i said set out a ten point program, for the welfare and benefit of the country among other things, standby price control. I got nothing. Congress is still doing nothing. Way back four and a half years ago, when i was in the senate, we passed a housing bill, in the senate, known as the wagner taft bill. It was a bill to clear the gov. Thomas e. Dewey which is over california on his Campaign Around the nation. Striking at communist elements striking at communist elements in government, the