Press Release, Speech of President Harry S. Truman, Providence, Rhode Island

IMMEDIATE RELEASE IMMEDIATE RELEASE TREMAN REMARKS OF THE PRESIDENT AT CITY HALL, "NATIONAL PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, ARCHIVES AND RECORDS OCTOBER 28, 1948 at 11:15 a. m. E.S.T. SERVICE KINT Thank you a lot. Thank you, Governor Pastore and the good people of Rhode Island and Providence plantations: it is always a pleasure for me to come to Providence -- a great Demo- cratic city in a great Democratic State. Rhode Island shows them the way! Rhode Island has produced two of the finest Senators in the Congress of the United States -- Theodore Francis Green, a leader in the fight for social progress; and Howard McGrath who is carrying a double load of Senator and serving as the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee. You have two wonderful Congressmen from this great State in Congressman Forand and Congressman Fogarty. Rhode Island is going to do that same thing again, you are going to keep two Democratic Senators and two Democratic Congressmen in the Congress. You proved your devotion to democracy by the enthusiastic support of these outstanding Senators and Congressmen, and by electing as Governor of Rhode Island my good friend, John O. Pastore. You good Democrats of Rhode Island and Providence plan- tations are entitled to be the first to hear some good news. I am going to tell it to you right now. All through the dark days of Democratic defeatism spread by phony polls, and Republican publicity experts, Rhode Island has stood firm as a rock. You stood firm for the Demo- cratic Party and for the Denocratic faith which I am preaching all over the United States. Now, see the results. I have just come out of Massa- chusetts this morning, and here is the good news: Massachusetts is going to have 8 Democratic majoriy of at least a hundred thousand. There are going to be a lot of her surprises for those pollsters on the third day of November. Massechusetts is on our side inthis fight just the same as Rhode Island has been in the forefront. The Republican pipe-dream of victory next Tuesday is going up in smoke as 60 million voters prepare to go to the polls on November the second. I told the people of Cleveland two nights ago that we have the Republicans on the run. The Republican candidate is on the run, too. He is running right behind me! That is exactly where hebelongs. The American people can't be fooled. They have seen through this expensive Republican propa anda. State after state tht the Renub lican bosses bossted were in the bag are swinging back to the Democratic Party -- where they belong. From North to South, from East to West, I am getting reports that States are with us. The people's crusade is rolling along to victory, and it is going to leave the Republican poll- takers flat on their faces on November the third. The Republican Party forgot that it was founded by a man who said that you can't fool all the people all the time. They have completely forgotten that man. That is what the Repub- lican candidate has been rying to do. He has been trying to fool all the people, trying to lull then to sleep and give them soothing syrup SO they would not go out and vote on November the second. You are not going to be fooled that way -- and I know it. OVER