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IMMEDIATE RELEASE
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
TRUMA
"NATIONAL
ARCHIVES
REAR PLATFORM REMARKS OF THE PRESIDENT
AND
RECORDS
AT OWENSBORO, KENTUCKY, SEPTEMBER 30,
SERVICE"
1948, at 4:50 P. M., c.s.t.
GOVERN
WERY
Thank you, thank you very much. I can't tell you how very
much I appreciate this privilege. I am very happy to be here in
Owensboro. I liked that introduction of the Chairman when he said
"next President of the United States."
I want to apologize to you for being late. I have a reputation
for being prompt. I'm usually on the dot everywhere I go, and when
I have an appointment in the White House the fellow never has to
wait for me. But I got in with a bunch of hard-working Illinois
Democrats this morning, and they ran me around, all over southern
Illinois, and lost two hours -- and I couldn't help it.
It is a pleasure to visit Kentucky, the most spirited state in
the Union -- except my home state of Missouri.
This year I am glad to see that Kentucky is so prosperous. In
fact, the whole country seems better off than it ever has been before
-- and I want to keep it that way. And you know, the best way to
keep it that way is to be sure, be sure, that you dislocate the
Members of that 80th Republican do-nothing Congress. Send Virgil
Chapman to the Senate and John Whitaker to the House. That will help
matters to a great extent, because if you elect a Democratic
Congress you'll be bound to elect me as the next President.
Judging from the Republican record -- when they wrecked our
prosperity back in '29 -- none of us would be prosperous very long
if we let these Republicans return to power. There are plenty good,
forward-looking Republicans in this country, but the present leaders
of their party do not represent them. These leaders are tied, hand
and foot, to the big businessmen and the Eastern bankers, and they
are under the control of those terrible lobbies in Washington.
There are more lobbies in Washington than there ever have been before
in the history of the country. They went there to work on this 80th
do-nothing Congress, and they worked very successfully.
If you listen to my speech tonight in Louisville I'll prove
to you just exactly what has happened since the Republicans gained
control in 1946, when most of the people in the country didn't go
out and vote. You know, only one-third of the people voted in 1946,
and two-thirds stayed at home. And look what they got. They got
just what they deserved. They got that 80th Congress.
You people in Kentucky and the people of other states will
make your choice on Election Day for the kind of Government you want.
You can choose the Democratic kind -- the kind Senator Barkley and
I
represent, and the kind of government that means a fair share of
the propertity for the farmers and the working people and all our
citizens - or you can turn your government over to a crowd of big
business Republicans who will let you sink back into the poverty and
trouble you had in 1932.
AIRI ask is that every one of my Kentucky friends look at the
record and VOJE in November. Go out on Election Day first thing
in the morning -- right early, SC there won't be too many people in
your way -- and vote the straight Democratic ticket, and you'll
leave the country in safe hands.