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SPEECH 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 TRINAN a peace that would protect us from war for many generations. But they N - & ADMINT us