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Conversely, Republican National Chairman Henry P. Fletcher of Pennsylvania engaged his party in an all-out attack on the New Deal. His "Declaration of Policy" warned voters of "domination of an all-powerful central government." If the New Deal policies of the Democrats were continued, he wrote, there would be "limitless inflation." He charged that Democrats were "seeking covertly to alter the framework of American institutions" and buying votes through the various New Deal programs, then giving millions of Americans work, relief, or farm subsidies. Not all Republican congressional candidates embraced the "Declaration of Policy" — indeed, in many locales it was all but ignored. In Wisconsin Sen. Robert La Follette Jr., a supporter of much that Roosevelt was seeking to accomplish, abandoned the Republican Party to run successfully for reelection to the Senate on the Progressive Party ticket; and the reconstituted Progressive...
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