Speech Delivered by Senator Harry S. Truman to the Meeting of Young Democrats at Bolivar, Missouri
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SPEECH DELIVERED BY SENATOR HARRY S. TRUMAN
TO THE MEETING OF YOUNG DEMOCRATS AT BOLIVAR,
MISSOURI, ON APRIL 12, 1938.
It certainly is a pleasure and a privilege to be with the Young
Democrats here in Bolivar tonight. I told my friends in Springfield today
how very much I appreciate being with you in this part of the State. I am
very fond of Bolivar and this community because I am a Baptist and you have
the Southwest Baptist College here. My mother, father, and all my grand-
parents were
Baptists. Putin Wood Paragraph
Tomorrow is the birthday of that great exponent of democracy and the
founder of the Democratic Party -- Thomas Jefferson.
When Jefferson was elected President of the United States in the year
1800 he found that the government had been, and the courts still were, in
absolute control of the Federalist Party. He found the newspapers and the
finances of the country under control of his political enemies. Even the
historians of the day hated him and his political doctrines and have never done
him justice. He found the money power in control of the government. He
found special privilege had been the Federal policy. He proceeded to give the
government back to the people. He made the courts conform to the Constitution
and the ethics of justice, and stopped their partisan activities.
When you read the history of his administration you wonder if you are
not reading the history of the administrations of three other great Democratic
Presidents -- Jackson, Wilson, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Jefferson fought
for the maintenance and restoration of Democratic principles of government.
He
put a stop to special privilege and restored the government to the people. He
was one of our ablest and greatest Presidents.
He presided over the destinies of the nation in one of the most troube
lous times in all the history of the world. England, France, Austria, and
Russia were at war. Napoleon was at the height of his career. Yet Jefferson
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