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And then, with
the westward march of our nation,
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came the pioneer and the buffalo
hunter, the adventurous and the bold.
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The boldest of these
were the cattlemen,
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who seized the wide-open range
for their own personal domain,
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and their law
was the law of the hired gun.
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But now, today have come
the railroads and the people.
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The steady, hard-working citizens,
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the homesteader, the shopkeeper,
the builder of cities.
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We need roads to join those cities,
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dams to store up
the waters of the Picketwire,
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and we need statehood
to protect the rights
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of every man and woman,
however humble.
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How do we get it? I'll tell you how.
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We get it by placing our votes
behind one man.
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One man!
And we have that man with us here.
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He is a man who came to us
not packing a gun,
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but carrying instead
a bag of law books.
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Yes. He is a lawyer and a teacher.
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The first west of the rosy buttes.
But more important,
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he's a man who has come to be known
throughout this territory
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in the last few weeks as
a great champion of law and order.
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Ladies and gentlemen,
I nominate as your delegate and mine,
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to the Congress at Washington,
the Honourable Ransom Stoddard!