Press Release, Truman for Senator State Headquarters

Editors: For release to morning papers of Oct. 21 and after (dated sunday). TRUMAN-FOR-SEN ATOR HEADQUART'ERS Madison Hotel ARCHIVES AND "NATIONAL RECORDS THEN william P. Harvey Jefferson City, Missouri SERVICE" publicity Director ST. JOSEPH,MO. Oct. 20:--Answering a comment by Chairman Fletcher of the Republican National committee that the Democratic party is pursu- ing a bad political policy in basing appeals to the voters on the re- lief measures passed by the Roosevelt administration, Judge Harry S. Truman, Democratic nominee for United States Senator, in a speech here tonight, declared that the Fletcher statement placed his oppenent for the Senate, Senator Roscoe C. Patterson in a bad light. Truman said that in states where Republican and Democratic members of congress had united in voting relief measures, it would be bad taste to exclude the Republicans who had joined the Democrats from proper credit in acting under the dictates of a common humanity. " The situation to which Mr. Fletcher refers was not that relating to the Missouri members of Congress, e Truman said. "My oppoent, Sen- ator Patterson, did not uniteH with the Democrats in voting for public relief. He voted to let 10 million starving men, women and children go without food. # No dictate of common humanity plagued his conscience. He not only voted against feeding this great mass of his fellow Americans, but he also voted against giving 13 million heads of families work. What would Mr. Fletcher have the Democratic party of Missouri do in this in- stance? I believe he would take the common sense stand that our party in this state is free from his stricture;that we should do our best to the pillery any man guilty of that callous indifference displayed by Sena- tor Patterson. Mr. Fletcher himself is making capital out of the cost of that re- lief. Senator Patterson is echoing his cries, accentuating in this way the diabolism of his vote. Mr. Fletcher says his party is not making