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IMMEDIATE RELEASE
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
REMARKS OF THE PRESIDENT
"NATIONAL
ARCHIVES AND
AT GREENVILLE, TEXAS, on
RECORDS
SEPTEMBER 27, 1948, at
SERVICE'
6:20 P. M., C.S.T.
Mr. Mayor, Mr. Speaker -- I say that advisedly for Sam Rayburn's
going to be the next Speaker of the House.
You know, this is the first town in Texas I ever saw -- when I
was nine years old. I had an uncle who lived down here at Lone Oak,
and my father and mother and my sister and brother and myself came
down to pay him a visit; and the train made the first stop in daylight
at Greenville, Texas, and that's the first town in Texas I ever saw.
And I'm so glad I got a chance to stop here tonight. And Sam Rayburn
tells me that this really is the heart of Texas -- because this city
"happens to be in Sam Rayburn's district.
My uncle told me, when we arrived here, that if I'd stick to
Texas when it was dry Texas would stick to me when it was wet. He
also told me that if I went out after a rain I would pick up my
tracks and take them with me. I found that to be absolutely true.
You here are vitally interested in the issues in this campaign.
You're in one of the richest farming communities in the whole United
States. Your whole economy depends on the prosperity of the farmer.
In 1932, if I remember correctly, cotton was selling for about
a nickel a pound. You know what it's selling for now.
At that time large numbers of people were walking the streets
trying to find jobs, and they couldn't find them.
A policy was started when we elected, in 1932, Franklin D.
Roosevelt to be President of the United States. And he inaugurated
a farm policy which has put the farmer on his feet.
The farmer now is more prosperous than he's ever been in the
history of the country. And I fear very much that in 1946 the farmer
performed just like a lot of other people when they get fat and lazy.
He failed to vote in 1946 -- and look what happened to him. He got
that do-nothing Republican 80th Congress. And they began immediately
to cut the ground from under him. And I want to say to you: If they
had had complete control of the Government and you hadn't had some-
body in the White House who was looking after your interests, no
telling what would have happened to you.
Now, you've got a chance to overcome/that situation, if you'll
use your own judgment as it should be used and work in your own
interests, as you usually do -- you won't have any trouble at all
deciding how you ought to vote on Election Day.
Just so you won't forget it, I'm going to remind you to go to
the polls on Election Day and vote for yourselves. That means --
of course, Sam Rayburn's as good as elected -- but that means that
you're going to vote the Democratic ticket straight on Election Day,
from President to Constable. And that means you're going to vote
for yourselves and your own interests, and that means also that
you'll make it very much easier on your President, because he won't
be troubled with the housing shortage -- I'll still be in the White
House.
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