Radio Statement by Senator Harry S. Truman

Statement by Senator Harry S. Truman to be broadcast on April 12th. Station KCMO FRUMAD NARA NOT TO BE RELEASED UNTIL AFTER DELIVERY Ladies and Gentlemen: - It was not my desire to make a political announcement until the Congress had adjourned, but so many rumors have been circulated regarding my future intentions that my interests and those of my friends must be protected by a statement of my position. I am definitely a candidate for reelection to the United States Senate, and am asking the people of Missouri to return me to the Senate on my record as a Senator and Democrat. Six years ago when I became a candidate for the Senate, I told the good people of Missouri that I believe in the principles of the Democratic Party as annunciated in the party platform of 1932 and that I would go to Washington pledged to support that plat. form and to support that greatest of humanitarians, the President of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt. Just the other day I spent a very pleasant hour with the President at the White House, discussing various bills pending in Congress, and he expressed the hope that I would come back to the Senate next year. I was reading my opening speech of the Campaign of 1934 a few days ago, and there is not a single paragraph in it regarding my future conduct in the Senate which has not been carried out to the letter. I have been faithful to my promises to the farmers, to veterans, to labor, and to the administration. I have supported the leader- ship of the Democratic party in the Senate and have upheld the President in all matters of National policy. I have worked harder at my job as a Senator than I have ever worked before in my life. I a.m saying to the voters of Missouri that they should give me an opportunity to get the results for the State of Missouri which will come from that hard work. Being a United States Senator is the greatest honor which can come to any man in this great state, but there is much more to it than public showmanship and loud speeches. Someone in the Senate must work and work hard if the Federal Government is to operate at all. It was my good. fortune to be assigned to two of the most powerful committees in the Congress when I arrived in Washington January 1, 1935 to take up my duties as a Senator - the Committee on Interstate Commerce and the Committee on Appropriations. The Honorable Burton K. Wheeler of Montana is Chairman of one, and the Honorable Carter