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OCR Page 1 of 12Note to Editors: For release to morning papers of Sept. 12 and after
TRUMAN-FOR-SENATOR HEADQUARTERS
American Security Building
Kansas tity,Missouri
my
NATIONAL
ARCHIVES AND
RECORDS
SERVICE"
William P. Harvey
Publicity Director
JEFFERSON CITY.MO. SEPT 11:--Speaking before the state convention
here
of the Democratic party today, Judge Harry S. Truman of Independence,
that party's candidate for United States Senator, vigorously attakked
the speech made in the Senate last June near the close of the last
session of Congress by Senator Roscoe C. Patterson,his Republican op-
ponent for Senator.
Senator Patterson had urged in the speech that the road to recov-
ery was a return to "rugged individualism." Judge Truman said that
he would have no quarrel with Senator Patterson over purely politi-
cal belief. He made, however, an unusually bitter attack upon the
Senator for his votes on measures intended to increase employment
against
and to provide relief for the needy.
Refrring to Senator Patterson's votes against the 1/2 billion dol-
lar appropriation for state aid in employment By furnishing in con-
junction with the states funds for public projects and outright
relief measures for the needy,Judge Truman said:
" It did not avail against Senator Patterson's sturdy, rugged in-
dividualism that women and children in millions of American homes
were suffering deprivations no human should undergo in this age of
bounty and intelligence. His rugged individualism was proof against
any argument that government is a society for mutual welfare. The
pleas of starving millions fell on ears that would not hear in the
person of Senator Patterson.
"
He sat unmoved in his Senate seat while the nation,overcome
with the immensity of the disaster which had overtaken these help-
less millions, sought to bind up their wounds and to put new hope
into the hearts of the stricken.
" I ask the farmers, the workers and the unemployed of Missouri,
following the great drought which has added to our afflictions,
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