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OCR Page 1 of 8Missouri January at 7, Charleston, 1939. West co Minimi
Speech of Senator Harry s. Truman of
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FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY.
We are here tonight to commemorate one of the greatest victories of
American arms and to pay tribute to the Commander of our troops at that
victory -- Andrew Jackson, Major General, United States Senator, seventh
President of the United States; the man who really made the Democratic Party
the Party that Thomas Jefferson visualized. Andrew Jackson gave us
Democratic government, cemented the Republic and firmly established the
principles on which the Denocratic Party is founded. The actual control and
menagement of the Government by the people became a reality under the old
fire-brand from Tennessee.
had
Until Jackson, Presidents had the advantages of birth, education and
social standing. Jackson carved his career out of the wilderness of the West.
He brought home to the Atlantic Seaboard the realization that a very
important part of the nation also lay west of the Alleghenies. The migration
into Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio and the Northwest Territories had opened up
new lands and created new problems, even as the age-old ones were still
perplexing the Adams administration. Bank failures, unemployment and the farm
problem were just as lively and perplexing in the days one hundred years ago
as they are today.
There was a general feeling west of the Appalachian Mountains that the
Washington government was a long way off and not particularly interested in
the general welfare of the country as a whole. Presidential candidates were
picked at caucuses of the Representatives in Congress. The people were not
considered. The Era of Good Feeling under Monroe and John Quiney Adams was
rather like the Era of Prosperity under Harding, Coolidge and Hoover. The
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