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In this “Draft Release of Speech,” Harry Truman was running as a Democratic candidate for the Senate. Truman gave this speech in Missouri on October 1st, 1934, and voiced his opinions about other candidates and the controversies surrounding Roosevelt’s New Deal. In this speech, he champions for higher wages for workers and make farming profitable for farmers. He voices his support for the New Deal and gives his promise to pass legislation that lets the working class prosper. Truman wrote this speech to raise awareness for how the working class should be treated, and question who should be trusted with government power.
Truman grew up in Missouri and at one time was a farmer in the state. Truman did not have a college degree but had served two …show more content…

Farmers were devastated by this blow, but even bigger was the eventual collapse of the stock market from bad decisions affecting everyone in the United States. President Hoover did find some solutions to help farmers and help those who lost jobs, but Truman would come to side with President Roosevelt to find a better solution, the New Deal. “I shall be with the President in his proposed effort for economic guarantees…. I shall be for any further legislation that…. will advance the standard of living (Truman 6).” He promises to not only support the President’s endeavors but to speak for the farmers that were hurting from the collapse. Truman goes on about his opponent, Patterson, and how he does not support Patterson’s …show more content…

Truman describes Patterson as, “… a heartless and callous attitude toward starving men, women and children in ten million American homes (2)” in response to voting against Roosevelt's attempts to pass relief measures. Patterson would vote for Hoover’s rugged individualism every time, as that was what his beliefs were, but when Roosevelt would try to pass in favor of helping the people who were affected by job loss, Patterson voted against those acts every time. Truman voices his stance, “It is my opinion that any man who has no more bowels of compassion or any more realization that this country was on the brink of revolution at that time than has Patterson, is not fit to sit in the Senate (6).” Truman states that nobody with Patterson’s intentions would not be just for any type of government position. Patterson’s active voting against acts that benefit the public, and his support for the partisans getting richer are not ones not fit to rule in a government position, according to Truman. Truman promises to make the standard of living for the American people, and he plans on doing this by continuing to support the New

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