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IMMEDIATE RELEASE
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
REAR PLATFORM REMARKS OF THE PRESIDENT AT
"NATIONAL
ARCHIVES AND
WINCHESTER, KENTUCKY, OCTOBER 1, 1948,
11:20 A. M., c.s.t.
Thank you. Thank you very much. Judge, I approciato very much that
introduction, and I'm going to make you a promise that some day, if everything
holds together and I'm President for the next four years -- which I think I
will be -- wo'll come back to Winchester, and I'm going to let you make that
thirty-minute speech that you had in your system that morning.
You know, I can't tell you how I appreciate the cordiality of the
welcome I have received in the groat State of Kentucky. Every city and town
where we stopped the people have turned cut just like this -- not quite so many
in some places, but just as cordial and just as happy as they possibly can be.
And that makes me feel like I'm not wasting my time when I go up and down the
country telling the people what the issues are in this campaign.
I've made it perfectly plain that the issues in this campaign are just the
people against the special interests. The Democrats represent the people
and the Republicans represent the special intorests. And I have tried to prove
that to every voter in the Nation that I have been able to come in contact with.
And I think I have seen some 2,500,000 of them on this trip -- and that's a
record, ladies and gentlomen. That's a record.
This, you know, is the center of a great farming community. You're
dependent on tobacco and agricultural crops in this part of the country, and
if you study the issues carefully you'll find that just as soon as the
Republicans got control of Congress they immediately began to try to cut the
floor from under the agricultural policy which the Democrats inaugurated in 1933.
I wonder, now, if you would care to go back to 8-cent tobacco and 3-cont
hogs and 15-cent corn and 25-cent wheat. That's what you had in 1932 -- and that's
what these Republicans are trying to give you again.
The very first thing they did when they got there was to try to cut the
ground from under the Agricultural Adjustment Act.
You can't afford to have that done. It's in your personal interest to go
out and vote for yourselves en Election Day, and when you do that you'll vote
a straight Democratic ticket -- and you'll send Tom Underwood to the Congress,
and you'll send Virgil Chapman to the Senate. And if you do that I'm very sure
that you'll elect the present occupant of the White House, and he won't have to
move out and be troubled with the housing shortage.
Don't fail to get to the polls early, now, and vote a straight Democratic
ticket.