Evening star., 1952-04-12
Victory Of Democrats
Predicted by Truman
In Letter 10 Party

President Truman, in a letter
addressed to more than 10000
Democratic officials and party
workers, published in the current
issue of the Democrat, Democratic
National Committee organ, pre-
diets that a Democrat will win the
presidency next November, IF We
fight the same kind of hard
hitting campaign on the issues
that won in 1948."
The President made no sug-
gestion regarding the party ticket,
but he said: whoever our can
didates may be, they will be good
ones" His letter follows:
MY Fellow Democrats:
THE letters and kilograms
which many of you have sent me
since my announcement that I
shall not be a candidate for re-
election have moved me deeply.
I appreciate all of them very
much indeed. just as I appreciate
the support that so many of you
have given me in trying to carry
out our party'S program-and
just as I appreciate the support
you gave me when so many people
said Democrat could not be-
elected President in 1948.
1T is curious how things re-
peat themselves. Now again, in
1852. some people are saying that
a Democrat cannot be elected
President in 1852. Well, they were
wrong in 1948. and they are wrong
now. A Democrat could and did
win in 1913; a Democrat can win
in 1952-and a Democrat will win
if We fight the same kind of hard
hitting campaign on the issues
that won in 1948.
There are many good men in
the Democratic Party from whom
the National Convention can
choose candidates for President
and Vice President. Whoever our
candidates may be, they will be
good ones.
In the campaign, the Repubn-
cans will try to duck and dodge
and divert the attention of the
voters by slick propaganda and
phony arguments. That is only
natural, because they know as
well as we do that on the real is
sues they are wrong and we are
right.
What we Democrats have to do
in 1852. therefore, is exactly what
we did in 1948-get the facts be-
fore the people in plain and simple
language. For the facts are un-
mistakable, and when the people
know them, they will see that the
Democratic way is the way of
progress.
THE fact is that under Demo-
cratic administrations in the last
20 years, the American people
have achieved a national produc-
ton of food and clothing and
houses and other things that no.
body even dreamed of at the start
of the '30's.
THE fact is that the benefits of
this high production have been
shared more fairly than ever be-
fore-those whose needs were
greatest have gained the greatest
rise in their standards of living.
"The fact is that the American
people today have more freedom
and more opportunities to better
themselves and contribute to the
growth of their country than any
people ever had before in history.
1.-The fact is that our country is
working hard-and successfully
to bring about peace and expand
freedom in troubled and divided
world.
"And the fact is that these
things have happened not by ac-
cident, but because we have
worked and fought for positive,
liberal, progressive measures to
bring them about-often over the
fierce opposition of the vested in
terestS that control the Republi-
can Party.
This is the record and these |
are the facts. I call upon every
Democrat to do his part-and |
more than his part-to make sure
that these facts are put before the /
voters, and that our party con- /
tinues to stand for a positive. for
ward-looking program to achieve
prosperity and peace.
"I expect to work just as hard
as I know how to support the
Democratic platform and the
Democratic candidates in this
years election. If we all do that,
the Democratic Party will win in
1852, and will continue to serve
the people of this great Nation
we'll and successfully