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Press Release, Speech of President Harry S. Truman, Bellefontaine, Ohio
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IMMEDIATE RELEASE
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
REAR PLATFORM REMARKS OF THE PRESIDENT AT
HARRY
"NATIONAL
ARCHIVES AND
BELLEFONTAINE, OHIO, OCTOBER 30, 1948
RECORDS
LINRARY
U.S.
SERVICE"
12:15 P.M., E.S.T.
Thank you, very much. I appreciate very much and very highly this
wonderful turnout here this morning. I have had quite a trip around over the
country visiting the various sections of the United States, and explaining to
them the issues in this campaign. Of course that is the only way you could
find out about the issues in this campaign, because our oppononts don't soom
to want to discuss the issues. They talk about unity, and officioncy, and
other things.
But, after having visited nearly every stato in the Union, and all
the great cities, I havo come to the conclusion that the R₉publicans are on
the run.
The Republican candidato started out by saying that he was going to
make 10 political speeches in this campaign. Instead of that, he has beon
following me around the country, and he is still following me around -- and
he is still bohind.
What you people are principally interested in is a Government of
the United States that is run in the interest of all the people, and not just
a few.
I think that the Republicans have only made a start on what they
intend to do to farmers and to labor. The Taft-Hartley Act was the first blow
at the laboring man's great charter, the Wagner Labor Relations Act. They have
tried to toar that up, SO far as they thought thoy could possibly go. and
they had to do that over my voto.
They have started in on the farm program, to make a travesty out
of that. And they won't do it directly. In the rechartoring of the Commodity
Crodit Corporation, they have tried to take the floor from under farm prices.
Corn, right now, in the middle West is selling below what the support price
ought to bo, because they have provented the Commodity Credit Corporation from
furnishing the stòrage necessary to make the loans on that corn.
I am asking you only to look out for your own intorest on Election
Day. Your interest is the interest and welfare of this great country. All you
have to do is to exercise the privilege which the Constitution gives you, and
that is to vote.
If you will all vote, I won't have any worry about the result, for
the simplo roason that you can't vote but one way, if you voto in your own
interost.
That is to got up early on the morming of the second of November
and go to the polls, and vote a straight Democratic ticket -- thon you will be
voting for yourselv S,