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    "ocrText": "IMMEDIATE RELEASE\nIMMEDIATE RELEASE\nTRUMAN\nREAR PLATFORM REMARKS OF THE PRESIDENT AT\nNATIONAL\nMARSHFIELD, MISSOURI\nARCHIVES\nSEPTEMBER 29, 1948, 11.10 PM CST\nThank you very much, Mr. Chairman, for that wonderful introduction.\nI think you are a good prophet. You know, it is always a pleasure for me\nto stop in Misscuri and see my old friends. I have boon here in this\ntown time and again, when I was running for the Senate, and this town was\nalways good to me in the campaigns that we have had here before, and I am\nsure that this town is going to be good to me this time.\nSome of the newspapermen on board say I talk too much about\nMissouri, in every State where I have been I am always comparing some of\nthe things that they have with how much better Missouri is. They say I\ntalk too much about that, but I can't help it because Missouri is just\nas good as thore is, and they don't make 'em any better.\nAs I come across the nation -- I have been across the nation and\nback, starting in Washington and going to San Francisco, and I am this\nfar on the way to Washington again -- the country is in a more prosperous\ncondition, so far as the farms are concerned, than ever in the country's\nhistory.\nI stopped in Iowa at Des Moines and attended a plowing contest,\nwhere there were a hundred thousand people present, and all these\nfarmers were from all over, from Minnesota, and Wisconsin, and North\nDakota, and South Dakota, and Missouri and Kansas. And they were having\na plowing contest; and I suggested that I would like to see whethor I\ncould plow again, if they had a four-mule, two-gang plow, I would see\nwhat I could do; and they said I was an old fogy, that they didn't use\nthat sort of plow any more. So I told them all right, I wouldn't be\nlike the Republicans who want to turn the clock back, they could go\nahead and do their plowing with tractors.\nThen I went on from there to Colorado, across Kansas, and people\nturned out at every place, just like you have turned out here to see\nthe President, because they are interostod in the welfare of this\ncountry, they want to know what the issues are in this campaign, and I\nthink all the people are going to try to vote intelligently this timo.\nIf they do that, they will vote the Domocratic ticket, because the\nDemocrats have always stood for the people, and they stand for the\npeople now. The Republicans arefor the special interests, every time\nthey have had control of the Government -- the special interests had a\nback-door entrance to the treasury. I am sure that is not what you\nwant. You want this Government tugo on as our Forefathers founded it\n-- a government of the people. You are the government, whon you exer-\nciso your right to vote; and if you exercise the right to vote, and\nenough people vote, the right people will always get into office.\nIt is the lazy people who don't go tothe polls that cause bad\nmon to be elected to office, they don't want to exercise that authority\nwhich they have, to create a government.\nNow Missouri has a splendid ticket in the field this time from\ntop to bottom, and I would give anything in the world if every county\nin Missouri would go Democratic, because you\nttaaMissourian\nrunning for President. Missouri is in the forward=looking column.\nMissouri does not want to turn the clock back. Missouri wants to go\nahead with progress; and that is what the Democratic Party stands for.\nI wish I had **** more time to go into all the details of the\nissues in this campaign, but it is getting so late tonight, and you\nhave been standing up here so long waiting for me to arrivo, that\nI\ndon't feel like yxx I ought to bore you with too much conversation."
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