Mr President, brittle and decrepid shellbacks, and honored 
brother Polywogs# When you, Mr President, came on board, these 
upstanding members of the young Democractic League of Polygonia, 
were ready to worship at your feet. We believed in you with all 
our hearts as after all we had met you only through the soothing 
and I am afraid misleading tones of the radio and press# The 
effect of those hypnotic notes however, are fast receding in the 
distance as we observe you in action. We sit here disillusioned 
and distressed as we see you breaking bread with the seagoing 
equivalent of entrenched greed, the narrow conservative shell- 
backs who are shackled by outmoded tradition# You who have 
critlsized the judiciary of the United States now sit with a 
court whose motto is " no mercy and no justice.” As a measure of 
our disillusionment I need only point to a recent speech of 
yours, made I believe in Kentucky, On that occasion you refered 
in scathing terms to one thousand dollar a day executives who 
bought postage for their propaganda with the poor stockholders 
money. And yet to our utter amazement there you sit with our 
own high priced executive who each night sends out his form of 
propaganda on paper paid for by the poor taxpayer. 
In our bitter disappointment we have tried to bolster our 
loyalty by saying that a man in your position is forced by 
political expediency to join al sorts of peculiar organizations 
from the Eagles to the Elks.Yet liberal principles should 
triumph over politics and we appeal to you (as leader of the 
Democratic Party you understand, and not as the President J to 
come over here to our territory before the battle of the 
Primary starts and plead our cause. As our Commander in Chief 
you have the right to speak out here as you did in Kentucky and 
not remain silent as you did in Nevada, Utah and to a large 
extent in California* 
If that is too much to ask, Mr President, then we demand, 
as a liberal and progressive organization, that you hold these 
motheaten, narrow minded reactionary, economic royalists, 
the shellbacks, in session, despite the heat, until they agree 
to enact legislation in behalf of this underfed, ill clothed 
and ill housed thirty percent# We also demand a ceiling and a 
floor, a ceiling above which the hours of our torture shall not 
extend and a floor below which the depth of our degradation 
shall not sink# 
