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It Seems to Heywood Broun
Broun, Heywood | August 13, 1930 issue

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The article discusses U.S. Congress representation and representatives. Why is it supposed to be screamingly funny if anybody but a professional politician runs for public office in America? The author used to hear exhortations from prominent men urging the average citizen to take an interest in governmental affairs and participate in elections and at the end of these orations, everybody used to applaud and act as if they were in thorough agreement. But the minute he found myself nominated for the U.S. Congress on the Socialist ticket, all his friends, and even comparative strangers, behaved as if it were the joke of the month.

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STATESMEN; NOMINATIONS for office; UNITED States. Congress; POLITICS, Practical; POLITICAL participation; UNITED States
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