Speech of Senator Harry S. Truman at Minneapolis, Minnesota

TEXT OF ADDRESS BY SENATOR HARRY S. TRUMAN, DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE FOR VICE PRESIDENT, PREPARED FOR DELIVERY AT 1 P.M. MONDAY, OCT. 23, 1944, DYCKMAN HOTEL, minneapolis. For release, in Wednesday P.M.S. Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: I hope you heard the President -- the men the Republicons would have you think is a tired old man - - when he told you in stirring and vi gorous words lest Saturday night about his progrem to win the war and then to secure the peace. The peace we fought for in the last ware The Peace that Harding and the Republican reactionaries lost or deliberately threw away in the twenties. We must not let that happen again. It will not happen again if you re-elect Franklin Pelano Roosevelt, President of the United States. There is no doubt about his attitude. There hever has been any doubt. For years he has fought to block the aggressors who wanted to rule the world and destroy our liberties years during which he me 1 and overcame the obstrutionists and the is olationists, most of whom were Republicens. For six long years Mr. Lewey was running for President, and we could not gei him to tell us straight ou t whether he was an isolationist or in favor the President's progrem. Mr. Dewey knew that Warren G . Harding got elected President by carrying water on both shoulders, and Mr. Dewey tried to do the same thingl That is Why I demanded in Los Angeles that Mr. Dewey stop shillyshallying and tell us streight out whe ther he repudiated the Hearsts and the McCormicks and the whole tribe of isolationists. The t was what al other thinking Americans wanted to know, and a lot of them were demanding to be told. They were not willing to take a chance on another Hording. Your own Senator Joseph Ball of Minnesota, a Republican and my go od friend, said flatly that he was not satisfied with Mr. Lewey attitude on foreign cffoirs. TRUMANT NARA