Speech of Senator Harry S. Truman to the Young Democratic Club of Carroll County at Bogard, Missouri

Speech or Senator Harry s. Truman to the Young Democratic Club of Carroll County at TO Bogard, BE RELEASED Missouri, ON DELIVERYL September C 13, 1988 LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: It is a pleasure to be with you this evening. I an always happy when I'm with the Young Democrats. Young Democrats are the hope of the Democratic Party, and the Democratic Party is the hope of the nation. You young Democrats have a very great responsibility resting upon your shoulders. It is your duty to take up the burden of the Party of Jefferson, Jackson, Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt -- a Party that has out- lived the Federalists, Whigs, Know-Nothings, and is now witnessing the passing of the Republicans. The Republicans have neither leader nor policy. They know not if they are Hooverites or Landonites. They have Glenn Frank on one limb and Vandenberg on the other. They are against overything and for nothing the Party of Progress proposes. Their sympethizers still control the metropol- itan press and the big money sources of the netion. That situstion is not unknown to the everyday citizen. They fool no one but themselves. They accuse us in one breath of wanting to create a dictator, and in the next of delivering the country to communism. They make the most of the President's desire to have a Congress elected in sympathy with the ideals and platform of the Democratic Party. They raise every smoke-screen possible to obscure the real issue, which is the titanic struggle between the reactionary forces and the progressive or liberal forces of this nation. What is left of the Republicans, and the followers of greed and oppreasion, are trying by every means at their commend to regein control of the Government. It is necessary that we have a Congress in sympathy with the cause of the common people. All the high sounding phrases a reaction- RRUMAN ary can use will not make him a liberal. NARA