Radio Speech of Senator Harry S. Truman, Candidate for Vice President, at Seattle, Washington

To be released upon Delivery in Seattle at Pacific Coast Time October 19th, 1944. Ladies and gentlemen, this is Harry Truman, Democratic Candidate for Vice- President, speaking to you from Seattle washington. You people of the West always have been a straight thinking liberal minded people. The problems that you and your forefathers encountered in settling this territory convinced you of the necessity of cooperation for the good of all. And you were convinced thot no nation can ever be truly great unless all of its people have a chance to earn a good living. You supporte the Democrotic Administration in the fight that it has waged since 1933 to advance the welfare of the common man. You helped to obtain labor legislction that brought shorter hours, higher woges and better working conditions for everybody in labor. You backed our efforts to obtain social security benefits for the in nged: bank deposit insurance to se feguard your life sovings; security regulations to prevent a repetition of the financial excesses of the twentics which caused the depression; and a form program that brought real prosperity to the farmer, and helped him produce the huge quantitics of food required to win the war. You supported the program of the Democra tic Administrotion to develop the great natural resourcos of the West, and you have witnessed the build- ing of the Bonneville, Grand Coulce and other great projccts. You know the tremendous contribution thcy are making to the winning of the war, and you know the bencfits you will cnjoy after the war from cheap and plentiful power and from wator for irrigation. Doubtless you remomber the bitter opposition to all these grea t programs, and how they were condemned as crozy expcriments of power-mad New Dcalers who wanted to ruin private business and socialize the nation. You also remomber the voting rocord of the Republicans in Congress on those great progroms. It con not stand comparison with the voting rocord of the Domocrats. The Republicons voted Twolve to one against the great powor and irrige tion project at Grand Couloc, Twolvc to onc against providing cheap powor for the Northwest end fcrtilo land to support 350,000 pcople. It is perfectly plain the t the Republican party is under the domination of the renctionarics. The Republionn reactionarics like Mr. Dewcy. KRUMAN NARA Hc is a man a fter their own heort. With his hc lp they provented Wendcll