[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 15]
[House]
[Page 20773]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




           150TH ANNIVERSARY OF FOUNDING OF REPUBLICAN PARTY

  (Mr. COX asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. COX. Mr. Speaker, this is the 150th anniversary of the Republican 
Party's founding. After a century and a half, from the abolition of 
slavery to the establishment of women's suffrage, to the liberation of 
millions of people in the Soviet Union, Afghanistan and Iraq, there has 
not been any question but that the Republican Party is the most 
effective political organization in the history of the world in 
advancing the cause of freedom.
  In 1924, this week, Republicans denounced the Democrats' Presidential 
nominee William Jennings Bryant for defending the Ku Klux Klan at the 
Democratic National Convention. It was this week in 1868 that 
Republicans denounced the Democrats for adopting a national campaign 
theme, ``This is a White Man's Country, Let White Men Rule.''
  Mr. Speaker, each day of the year, the Republican Freedom Calendar 
highlights a civil rights achievement of this most American of 
institutions. The calendar is available at www.policy.house.gov.

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