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IMMEDIATE RELEASE
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
REAR PLATFORM REMARKS OF THE PRESIDENT AT
NATIONAL
SHELBYVILLE, KENTUCKY
ARCHIVES AND
RECORDS
OCTOBER 1, 1948, 8.45 AM, CST
SERVICE"
Good morning -- good morning! Mr. Chairman and citizens of
Shelby County -- I imagine all the County is here; it is a very great
pleasure to me this morning to have had the privilege of stopping in
Shelbyville.
My grandfather Truman ran off with Mary Jane Holmes and
was married here in Shelbyville, and lived on an adjoining farm out
here west of town. Then he went to Missouri -- was afraid to go back
home. And about three or four years aftor that, why his father-in-law
sent for him to come home, he wanted to see the first grandchild so.
That settled things and they got together; and my grandfather Young
and grandmother Young lived right around here. My grandmother was
the youngest of 13 children, and they lived out hore on the farm
between here and Louisvillo. Tho house sat half in Jefferson County
and half in Shelby County, and whon my grandmother's brother -- she
was raised by her oldest brother -- didn't want to servo on the jury
in Jefferson County, he would move over to Shelby County, and when
he didn't want to serve in Shelby County, he moved to Jefferson --
he was very conveniently fixed.
But I am proud of my Kentucky ancestry, naturally. Kentucky
and Missouri are just symbolic of the ancestry there. Missouri was
settled by people from Kentucky and Tennessee mostly, and the central
part of Missouri from St. Louis to Kansas City is just a cross-soction
of Kentuckians, so I know oxactly what you think about, and how you
like things. If you will como out to Jackson County, I will show you
a slice of Kentucky.
You are intorosted, of course, in this campaign, and it will
be one of the most historic campaigns in the history of the United
States, because there is just one issue in this campaign, and that
issue is do the people rule the country or do the special interests
rulo the country.
Now, you are a great farming community here, and the first
thing that this Ropubliccn Congress did, as soon as it got into
session, was to bogin to cut the ground from under the farmer.
You see, the Domocratic administration, in 1933, took over
the country when the farmers wore broke, when the banks were closing
all over the country so fast you were afraid to go into one for fear
it would blow up in your face bofore you could get out. The laboring
man was considered just a part of the cost of production.
The Democratic administrations inaugurated a policy which put
txxx the farmer on his foot in the right place, and gave him a fair
share of the income of the country, and they did the same for the
laboring man, and did the same for small business. And there hasn't
been a bank failure in the United States in the last three years, duo
to the fact that WG inauguratod the Federal Deposit Insurance Corpora-
tion.
I don't think those Republicans dare tear up what tho
Democrats have done for the country. The farmer's income this year
is 18 billion dollars, compared with 42 billions in 1932. 123 thousand
farmers were put off their farms in 1932, and only 800 last year.
Now, if the farmers know which side their bread is buttered
on, they will send the Domocrats back to Congress, and they will lot
me live in the White House another four years, and I won't be troubled
with the housing shortago.
You are interested in farm products, particularly tobacco.
If it woren't for the support price program, you tobacco raisers
would be out the window. That is Democratic Policy, but the Republicans
want to toar that up, and they have indicated that they will tear it
up, if they got control of the Congress as well as the White House.
Thoy would have done it this timo, if I hadn't been sitting thore to
prevent them from doing it. Now, in order to prevent that Republican
80th Congress from being repeated in the 81st Congress, you will cloct
Virgil Chapman to the Senato of the United States from Kentucky, and
you will elect Frank Chelf to the Congress; and if you do that all
over the United States, we won't have another do-nothing Congress
like we have had for the last two years.