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SPEECH OF SENATOR HARRY S. TRUMAN OF MISSOURI, TO THE YOUNG DEMOCRATIC CLUBS OF MISSOURI, ARKANSAS, ILLINOIS, KENTUCKY AND TENNESSEE, AT CAPE GIRARDEAU, MISSOURI, OCTOBER 23, 1937. It is a very great pleasure and a high honor to be one of your speakers today. Missouri and Cape Girardeau welcome the Young Democrats of neighboring States and the officials of those States. We are also glad to have the son of our great President here as a guest. As Young Democrats, you are the standard bearers of the future; to you will be entrusted the ideals and the welfare of the Republic of the United States for the next generation. Those of us who are at the helm of public offices must shortly relinquish that helm to you, who are the "hope of the world". To you whose ideals are those of Washington, Madison, Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt, it will be a pleasure to leave the affairs of this great Republic. It has been my privilege and my duty to TRUMAN serve the country publicly for some twenty GBMA,