Speech Delivered by Senator Harry S. Truman to the Franklin D. Roosevelt Women's Club of Springfield, Missouri

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SPFECH DELIVERED BY SENATOR HARRY S. TRUMAN TO THE FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT WOLON'S CLUB or SPRINGFIELD, AT NOON, APRIL 12, 1938 Ladies of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Women's Club of Springfield and all other good people who are here:- It ia a very grest pleasure to be with you today. I have a very kindly feeling for this section of Miasouri, probably because I en more faniliar with it than with other parts of the State. I've always come to this part of the State for vacations, for rest and recreation and also because I have so many good friends in Springfield and adjoining counties. I came to this part of the State very soon after I had been nominated for the Senate and while you seamed to prefer that very able and genial Congressmen from St. Louis, John J. Cochren, you treated me just as cordielly as if I had been your choice in the primary, I em very aure you would have given your native son a Republican majority over Mr. Cochran just about as large ao you did over me. I have tried alwaya to be e public sorvant after election and there are never any political sears on ne. I an also very tond of your distingsished ble and S KRUMAN NARA