Press Release, Truman for Senator State Headquarters

Editors:--For release to morning papers of October 17 and after. TRUMAN-FOR-SENATOR HEADQUARTERS NATIONAL ARCHIVER AND R:CORDS quit william P. Harvey Madison Hotel Publicity Director Jefferson City,Missouri SERVICE" KIRKSVILIE, MO. ,Oct. 18:-- That the forces of life, operating independently of any effort by the n. ational administration, will complete the effort for the New Deal, was an opinion voiced by Judge Harry S. Truman, Der ocratic "honinee for Uhited States Senator in a speech here tonight. The struggle to make the New Deal effective has been waged against the most corrupt and ruthless political machine" ever built up in the United States, Truman asserted. He interspersed his attacks upon the Republican Old Guard by frequent assaults upon Roscoe C. Patterson, his Republican term- ed Patterson "the last exemplar of the dying order." The nation has been regimented into the "haves and have nots" since the days of Mark Hanna, when an open pact between business and the Republican leaders was reached for*cousinly control" of government, Truman said. The agreement was reached through the use of great slush funds, by which Republican con- trol of the Woite House was obtained and retained, Truman declared. High tariffs,giving industry a syphon into the pockets of our consum- ers, have bled America white in two tenerations," Truman said. " And during the period of the tariff conquest, the looters of America were busy consoli- dating their positions of control over almost the last of the country's vast natural resources. # We have few natural resources left unexploited. We have reached the zenith of our continued ascendency as a supplying nation for the world of raw mater- ial. The control over what is left has been cemented firmly into the grasp of owners who secured vast holdings by every conceivable method of graft and plunder. There is little left with which to pioneer. Graat tracts of timber `lands are alienated from the general public forever. Our doal, our iron,our sold, our silver our raw land, our great array of minerals and all other types of natural re- .