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OCR Page 1 of 11SPEECH TO BE DELIVERED BY
SENATOR HARRY S. TRUMAN
IN JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI
NOVEMBER 2nd, 1942
TO BE RELEASED ON DELIVERY
Tomorrow we face our first wartime election which will decide
who shall carry on our nation's government for the next two years. Not
for many years has an election meant so much to each one of us.
We are in the midst of a world-wide war to preserve the pro-
cesses of free government. It is not only appropriate but necessary, that,
even in the midst of war, these processes go on. The right to vote is
one of the great privileges of our American democracy. It is likewise
one of the fundamental processes of the Democratic way we are fighting
to preserve.
Destiny placed at the head of this nation in 1933 a great Presi-
dent, who, ahead of the others, recognized the danger to this country of
the impending conflagration in Europe. That we are as well prepared as
we are to make an effective contribution now to this war is due to his
efforts and to those of a Democratic Congress.
Destiny, however, has now charged a Democratic Administration
and a Democratic Congress with leadership in this great emergency. This
leadership must be continued and supported. It requires no demonstration
to tell that a Democratic defeat at the polls this year would hamper,
delay, and confuse the conduct of the war, and perhaps impéril. the peace.
The war we are now fighting is a continuation of the one we fought
in 1917 and 1918, The victors of that war had the opportunity to compel
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a peace that would protect us from war for many generations. But they
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