Press Release, Truman for Senator State Headquarters

Editors: For release to morning papers of Oct, 9 80Q1 TRUMAN-FOR-SENATOR STATE HEADQUARTERS ARCHIVES SERVICE" RECORDS 'NATIONAL AMD MADISON HOTEL William P. Harvey JEFFERSON CITY,MISSOURI Publicity Director blstoH odl SPRINGFIELD,MO. ,Oct. 8: $peaking here in Greene county, in which his Republican opponent for United States Senator Roscoe C. Patterson,started nis political career,Judge Harry S. Truman of Independence,Democratic nomi- nee for Senator, devoted almost all of his speaking time to Patterson's rec- ord in Congress. Most of his attack was directed Patterson for his votes against toward the employment and relief measures advocated by President Roosevelt. But adversely to he also stated that Patterson had voted the effort for the New CH deal,typifying in this way his 11) rugged individualism and his love for what Truman said would be a discarded social orderXir favor of I tave already said some harsh things abdut Patterson sitting unmoved in his seat in the Senate while all about him members of his legislative body were deeply engaged in a real effort to bring food to the starving men,women and children who, in millions of homes, found themselves stripped of every resource. in I have not said enough in condemnation of this act. And regardless of what I may be able to say now or hereafter about this callous indifference to human beings and brutal disregard to the fineness of life,I snall always feel that poverty of language caused me to fail to give an adequate pict- ure of my thoughts. *Persénally, I want to say this, that as long as I am Senator, I shall not cast a vote which will deprive a worthy American of M needed food or cloth- ing or shelter. This feeling lies deeper than sympathy or charity. It has its root in my sincere belief that society is organized in government solely for mutual protection;that this applies not only to the individual,but to the lowliest of them. Only worth and decency form a guage of citizenship. I shall need no other test.