Press Release, Truman for Senator State Headquarters

Editors:-For release to MORNING papors of October 19 and after. s ARCHIVES AND TRUMAII-FOR-SENATOR HIAADQUARTERS fill "NATIONAL RECORDS is &ERVICE" Madison Hotel William P. Harvey Jefferson City, Missouri Publicity Director Fanette MO Oct. 18:=-An attack on the Republican party as the "par- today ty of despair" was made hore tonight in a campaign speech by Judge Harry S. Truman of Independence. The Democratic candidate for the Un- ited States Senate said that instend of aiding in bringing back pros- Republicans peroty, thex have "assumed an alarmist complex that is as false and hyp- ocritical as that party's political philosophy." n The Republican party is a party ofn despair," Truman declared. "It lmows that the public holds it directly responsible for plunging this its country in a financial and economic collapse after nine years of absolute control of the government. It that the public is aware that it had three years under Hoover,who received the aid of Democrats in Con- gress, in which to bring the nation back. It lmows further that having had a sample of gover nation-smashing by the Republicans and absolute inability to do anything to better conditions,the voters have no intent- ion of returning that party to power. Republican lender They are merely trying to hold the party together for the national campaign in 1936. They are trying the alarmist dodge to keen the coun- try from going solidly Democratic. They are putting a misleading psychol- ogy into public thought in an effort to hamper the Democratic effort to bring back prosperity. " They are in for a little more despair in that effort,also. The busi- noss mon and bankers of America lmow that this country is progressing slowly but surely toward a more stable basis of wellbeing. That the coun- try is on the upgrade is evidenced by business reports. That this will continue is the concensus of virtually every writer on business and fi- nancial affairs. " The chambers of commerce in Kensas City,St. Louis and other busi-