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OCR Page 1 of 2To be released upon Delivery in
Seattle at Pacific Coast Time
October 19th, 1944.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is Harry Truman, Democratic Candidate for Vice-
President, speaking to you from Seattle Washington.
You people of the West always have been a straight thinking liberal
minded people. The problems that you and your forefathers encountered in
settling this territory convinced you of the necessity of cooperation for
the good of all.
And you vere convinced that no nation can ever be truly great unless
all of its people have a chance to earn a good living.
You supported the Democrotic Administration in the fight that it has
waged since 1933 to advance the welfare of the common man.
You helped to obtain labor legislation that brought shorter hours,
higher wages and botter working conditions for everybody in labor.
You backed our efforts to obtain social security benefits for the
aged: bank deposit insurance to se feguard your life sovings; scurity
regulations to prevont a repetition of the financial excesses of the
twentics which caused the depression; and a form program that brought real
prosperity to the farmer, and holped him producc the huge quantities of
food required to win the war.
You supported the program of the Democra tic Administrotion to develop
the great natural resourcos of the West, and you have witnessed the build-
ing of the Bonneville, Grand Coulce and other great projccts.
You know the tremendous contribution thcy are making to the winning of
the war, and you know the benofits you will enjoy after the war from cheap
and plontiful power and from water for irrigation.
Doubtless you remember the bitter opposition to all these grea t programs,
and how they were condemned as crozy exporiments of power-mad New Dcalcrs
who wanted to ruin private business and socialize the nation.
You also remomber the voting record of the Republicans in Congress
on these great programs. It can not stand comparison with the voting
rocord of the Democrats. The Republicans votod Twolve to one against the
great power and irrige tion project at Grand Couloc. Twolve to one agains
providing cheap power for the Northwest and fortilc land to support 350,000
pcople.
RUMAN
It is perfoctly ploin thot the Republican party is under the domination
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of the reationarics. The Republionn reactionarics like Mr. Dewoy.
Hc is a mon fter their own heort. With his hc lp they provented Wendcll
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