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OCR Page 1 of 11Editors: For release to morning papers of Oct. 2 and after. 4000
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TRUMAN-FOR-SENATOR-STATE-HEADQUARTERS
Madison Hotel
William P. Harvey 35 minutes
Jefferson City, Missouri
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Publicity Director
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FLATRIVER,
CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO. Oct. 1:--The Democratic party will whip the depres-
sion and do it constitutionally while retaining the present industrial
system in every respect, Judge Harry S. Truman of Independence, Democrat-
ic candidate for United States Senator, declared here tonight in opening
his election campaign.
Truman assailed vigorously foes of the national Democratic administra-
tion. He charged that the only enmity to the constitution evident at
this time were the attacks leveled at the Roosevelt regime by those who
alleged the New Deal is unconstitutional.
In all American history,he said,there had never been a political spec-
tacle such as that in this campaign,' when men of high social position
and of great wealth,acting like cowardly Communists,are undermining
the very foundations of government by inciting hatreds and appealing
for sectional and class discord."
The proper place to learn whether or not the New Deal is unconstitu-
tional,h declared, was in the courts and not before the people. The
fact that the protestors did not resort to the courts gave sufficient
reason to believe, he said, that their entire campaign was based on pol-
itical "clap-trap."
not
"If these men has a case, Truman charged;" they would waste a moment
in trying to stop the New Deal by the one effective means, recourse to
law. In conferring power on the President to initiate the New Deal, Con-
gress could not and did not exceed its constitutional powers.
" The only legal question there could be is not as to the constitut-
ional power of Congress to transfer these powers, but as to whether or
not any single one of the new agencies of the New Deal exceeded the
authority given it. That would affect only minor matters and would not
in any way invalidate the scope or the purpose of the New Deal."
Congress has in many administrations conferred unusual powers on var-
ious bodies, Truman said. He cited the Transportation Act, the Seamens'
Act, the Federal Reserve Board, the Federal Trade Commission and other
creations of Congress. These bodies, he said,ha been clothed with
extraordinary powers, some exercising both executive and juridical
powers, while others also had administrative powers.
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The Fedeeral Reserve Board was created in the regime of former Pres-
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