Radio Remarks of Vice Presidential Candidate Harry S. Truman

RA THURSD MUTUAL B. SYSTEM 10 - 10:30 P.M. EWT TRUMAN: Fellow workers in the Democratic Party there are two championships at stake within the next few weeks. One is being decided in my native state right now. And I don't care who wins that one, so long as it's a St. Louis team. The other championship will be decided on November 7 and neither you nor I cares who wins this one, so long as it is the Democratic Party. Last night I hard a good citizen make a very good point on the radio. The citizen is our National Committee Chairman, Bob Hannegan, and the point he made is worth repeating. Bob said that if the vote were taken in the home right now our next President would be Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Every national poll, wi thout exception, shows this, and of course it is true. But there is something else that is equally true. Votes are not counted in the home. They are counted at the voting booth. This places a tremendous responsibility on us as Democrats. Here we have the people of this country delivering what amounts to a mandate. They have demonstrated through the polls a distinct preference for a Democratic administration. They know they need it in order to win this war as quickly as possible and in order to secure the peace that will foll TRUMAN NARA Yes, they want a Democratic adminiatration.