Speech of Senator Harry S. Truman Before the State Democratic Convention at Jefferson City, Missouri

Syeech of Senator Harry S, Truman before the State Democratic Convention at Jefferson City, Missouri, on September 13, 1938 TO BE RELEASED ON DELIVERY. FELLOW DEMOCRATE: I consider it en honor and a privilege to be called upon to any a fow words to this Convention. We have been through one of our usual Missouri Democratie Prinaries where every one did all he could for hia candidate, just as he had a right to do. Or course, the Republicen presa would be most happy to see us continue our quarrels in November, but we are not doing that in Missouri these days. We have a very excellent ticket - one that any Missourian should be proud to support. It is going to be a pleasure for ne to do everything I possibly can to make the majority in November so large that the Republicans will con- tinue to be as thoroughly discouraged as they have been in past electione -- since that memorable one in 1932. The Republicans have neithor losder nor policy. They know not if they are Epoverites or Lendonites. They have Glonn Frank on one limb and Vandenberg on the other. They are against everything and for nothing the Party of Progreas proposes. Their still control the metropol- Itan prese and the big money sources of the nation. That situation is not unknown to the everyday citizen. They Tool no one but themselves. They accuse us in one breath of wanting to create a dictator and in the next of delivering the country to communism. They make the most of the President's desire to have a Congress elected in sympathy with the ideals and platform of the Democratic Party. They raise every smoke-screen possible to obseure the real issue, which is the titanic struggle between the reactionary forces and the progressive or the liberel forces of this natson. 1a lef of the Republicans and the Vis and