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Sherman, Texas (Rear platform, 8:29 a.m.)
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Mr. Speaker, Governor Jester, and fellow Democrats of Sherman,
Texas: I can't tell you how happy I am that we were able to stop in this wonderful city of education and agriculture and recreation. The president of the Young Democrats brought me the key to the city, and I couldn't possibly go by when that happens. It says on here Agriculture-Education-Industry Recreation. What more do you want? You can't have anything else that is necessary for human existence and for the happiness of the human family. I have been all over this great State of Texas, practically. Of course, because it is just too big, about half of it I didn't get into; but when I came to El Paso, Governor Jester and Mrs. Jester and Sam Rayburn met me just as soon as I got into the State, and I want to say to you that the hospitality of the State of Texas, and the way I have been treated by the Speaker and by the Governor and Mrs. Jester has never been equaled. Talk about hospitality-when I say "Texas," that is the definition for hospitality. The Governor and I just signed the guest book for Miss Lou Rayburn, and the Governor put down his hobby as "Texas." That's a pretty good hobby. I am slowly coming to the border of this great State, and I have tried--in going across it--to set out the issues in this campaign; and I have just got a copy of some of the comments of the bitter anti-Truman columnists, and evidently they are hurt, because like old Taber, they are "squealing like stuck pigs," because I am driving home to the people what this 80th Congress did to them. Now you study that situation, and when you get the issues balanced-which I discussed yesterday in Dallas and wound up in Bonham last night with the fundamentals if you will just study those remarks, you can't help but be satisfied that the country is much safer, the welfare of the country is safer in the hands of the Democrats. When you put it in the hands of the Republicans, it isn't safe and it hasn't been safe for the last 100 years. I have always been for the people-the man in the street. Lincoln called them the common people. He said the Lord must have loved them or he wouldn't have made so many of them. Well now, "big" men always have people to look after their interests. They have lobbyists, highly paid men who go around trying to get things done for special interests. The people have only one representative in Washington who is all the time for the people, and that is a Democratic President. Now you have a bunch of wonderful men in the Congress, but they are in the minority, and when I speak of the 80th Congress the 80th "do-nothing" Congress-I am talking about the leadership and majority control of that Congress. There never was a better man than Sam Rayburn in the Congress of the United States. If this country does what it ought to and I am sure it is going to--Sam Rayburn will be the next Speaker of the House of Representatives. The Speaker of the House is the most powerful official in the Government of the United States aside from the President, and the most important one; and when you put such fellows as Martin and Taber and Halleck in control of the Congress, you get just exactly what you deserve. One-third of the people elected that Congress this last time. Two-thirds of you didn't vote. I hope that everybody will go out and we will have such a landslide for the interests of the people that we will have no more trouble with the special interest lobbies in Washington. I am sure that is what you are going to do. Again I want to thank the Governor of Texas for his cordiality and his hospitality, and his wonderful treatment of me on this trip. Thank you for getting up so early this morning.
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