Draft Speech of Senator Harry S. Truman to the State Meeting of Young Democratic Clubs of Missouri

to THE Speech of Senator Harry B. Truman nt the State Meeting ARCHIVES RECORDS AND Missouri, of Young Demceratic August 13, Cluby 193 TO Bd REZTASET Excelsion ON DEDIVERY. Dorings, COME of = SERVICE LADIES AND OF the YOUNG DEMOCRATIC CLUBS or MISSOURI: I consider 1t e very high honor to be asked by your State President to make e few remarks -- pinch-hitting for my collengue, Senetor Clary, who is unable to ber here. You are the bsekbone and sinew of the Democritie Party of the future. You are the hope of the Democratic Party. Ita future welfere 1/s in young your henda Bemocrate You havs a very great responsibility resting upon your shoulders. It is youx duty to take up the burden of the Party of Jefferson, Jeckson, Wilson and Frunklin D. Roosevelt -- e Party that has outlived the Federaliets, Thits, Know-Nothings, and is now witnessing the pessing of the Republicens. # The Republicans have neither leader nor policy. They know not if they are Hooverites or Lendonites. They have Glena Frank on one limb end Vendenberg on the other. They ara ageinst everything end for nothing the Party of Progress proposes. Instead of intviligent opposition thay advise their befuddled followers so enter Democratic Primeries to esuse dissension in shot party. Things la Republican circles have dome to a pretty pasa when that 13 their onty teque. Thoir sympathizers still control the metropolitan presa and the big money sources of the netion. Thet situation is not unknown to the everyday citizen. They fool no one but themselves. They accuse the use note Procident in one, breath of wanting to be a dietator and in the next of deliver- the country ing - to communisa. Thay meice the most of the President's desiro to have e Congress elected in ayapathy with the ideala and platform of the Democratic Party. Thay raise every snoke sereen possible to obseure the resi issue, which is the RUMAN titenic struggle between the resetionary forces end the progressive or liberal