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SPEECH DELIVERED BY SENATOR HARRY S. TRUMAN AT MARYVILLE, MISSOURI, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 16, 1938 To be released on delivery. MR. CHAIRMAN, YOUNG DEMOCRATS, ALL DEMOCRATS, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: BIM It is a pleasure to be in Maryville today, in this great farming section of Northwest Missouri. I have a great many friends in this part of the State, and it is always a pleasure t come here. Bongnet. Hospitality. Clark. President lampkin Rush Your Congressman, the Honorable Richard M. Duncan, who ably represents this District in Congress, is my personal and political friend. He is a member, and an influential one, of the powerful Ways and Means Committee of the House of Representatives, and you ought to keep him in that great legislative body as long as he is willing to go to Washington to represent you. He is a friend of President Roosevelt and a Democrat after my own heart. ARCHIVES AND RECORDS SERVICE* We are here tonight to do honor to one of the world's great men -- to Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, advocate of the Bill of Rights to the Constitution, member of the Virginia Legislature and the Continental Congress, Governor of