Radio Campaign Speech of Senator Harry S. Truman, Kansas City, Missouri
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OCR Page 1 of 12RADIO SPEECH OF SENATOR HARRY S. TRUMAN
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STATION WDAF, OCTOBER 30, 1936, 6:00 P.M.
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LADIES AND GENTLEMEN OF THE RADIO AUDIENCE:
The campaign is drawing to a close, and not much can be
said to change the situation. With your indulgence I should
like to give you my views about the State, local and National
situation, in as few words as possible.
The Republican candidate for Governor of Missouri is
making his campaign by throwing rocks at T. J. Pendergast and
the Jackson County Democrats. The Republicans would give all
they have for a leader with half his ability. Every time they'
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made a campaign of the sort they are now, Pendergast has come
out stronger than ever. He will this time, too. Mr. Barrett
says Major Stark is wrong because the Jackson County Democratic
Organization is for him. Some eighty or ninety counties in the
State endorsed Major Stark before the Jackson County Organization,
headed by Mr. Pendergast, came out for him. He was endorsed by
our Organization because he is the best man for the place that
could be found in the State, and because the out-State Democrats
wanted him.
Mr. Barrett has no platform and nothing constructive to
offer -- he's against Pendergast. My friends, if you'll only
compare the record of the Gardiner administration on one side and
the Park administration on the other of twelve long years of
Republican rule, you will come to the conclusion that the best
interests of Missouri are served when the Democrats are in
power. Governor Gardiner ran the State well and economically,
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