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Press Release, Speech of President Harry S. Truman, Mount Sterling, Kentucky
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IN EDIATE RELEAS.
IMEDIATE RELEASE
REAR PLATFORM REMARKS CF THE PRESIDENT AT
TRUMAS
MT. STERLING, KENTUCKY
"NATIONAL
ARCHIVES AND
OCTOBER 1, 1948, 11.50/M CST
RECORDS
SERVICE"
Thank you, thank you very much. I enpreciate very much
that most cardial welcome here in Mt. Sterling. You know,
that welcome seems to be innate to Kentuckians. Kentuckians
have been so cordial to me, in every city I have been through,
that I feel like I am a Kentuckien, and I appreciate it most
highly, because I am by descent.
It is always a privilege fur me to stop and visit with
you, and if I had time, I would rather circulate through the
crowd and talk to you, and listen to what you have to say,
f that is what I like to do.
Kentucky, however, looks very presperous this year; in
fact, the whole country is doing pretty well. Under a Demo-
cratic administration, don't forget that!
Senstor Barkley and I are going to keep Kentucky and the
rest of the country on the high-road of prosperity. And you
can help Senator Borkley and me do that if you will send Joe
Bates to Congress, and send virgil Chapman to the Senate. I
know you are really with me on that request.
The key question in this campaign is whether we are going
to keep running sm othly under Democratic aoministrotionn or
whether we are going tc let the country slide backward. I have
known a lot of good Republicans in my life, but the Republican
leadership of the 80th Congress have never listened to them,
they have been doing what the libbies said, not what
the
people said. this Congresshas been completely surrounded with
lobbies. More lobbier worked for this 80th Congress than ever
before in the history of the country. And they accomplished
their purpose. This Congress did not work for the welfare of
the whole copple, they worked for the benefit of the lobbyists
and the special interests. That is the reason I am very anxious
for you to make a change there.
I told you last night in Louisville that there cught to be
a change, you cught ti change that Congress and put in a
Democratic Congress that will work for the people. I am very
sure that is what you are going t do before you get through.
Now ifyou remember, back in 1932, the Democratic administra-
tion is the difference between 15 curn and $1.47 curn, the
difference between tobacco and 50 tobscco. I dan believe
you want to turn the clock back to the old days of Harding,
Cablidge and H. cover, and gain go broke and have all your farms
foreclosed, as was done in 1932. Lost year there were fewer
fureclosures than ever before in the history of the country.
You people who get your living from the soil, in my
opinion had better BE to the folls an election day and vote in
your own special interest, and that is the interest of all the
people. And if you do that, you will vote the Democratic
ticket straight, and then I wen t be troubled with the housing
shortage in 1949, and I will still stay in the White House.