Show Truman Tells Confidence In Coming oming Vote Vole WASHINGTON May 15 UP tiP tiP- President Truman set the stage I Saturday for fora a fighting political campaign with a confident prediction prediction prediction tion of victory over Republican obstructionists I wa want t. t to say to you at this time lime that during the next four years there will be a Democrat in inthe inthe inthe the White House and you are looking at him he told a cheering cheering cheer cheer- ing audience audien e of young oung Democrats Friday night But at the same time he said he hopes foreign policy will be kept out of the 1948 presidential contest con con- test The setting for his first avowedly avowed avowed- ly political speech since the March announcement of his willingness to run for a year four-year term was the a 25 dinner of ot the Young Youn Democrats of America Held in in the big ballroom of the Mayflower hotel the affair was atte attended ded by a large crowd crowd including ing cabinet officers and other party leaders Mr Truman spoke from notes but without a prepared manuscript manu manu- manu manu- script This is the procedure he is expected to follow in platform appearances appearances appearances ap ap- ap- ap on his swing to the west coast in June The he president was emphatic in his assertion that the bipartisan foreign policy should not be e dragged in into o the political cam cam- not a political issue and andI I pray God that it never will become become become be be- come a political issue Political issues ought to end at the waters water's edge edgen And he added Free nations shall remain free nations of the world and that is the foreign policy of the United States I In predicting his own victory Mr Truman scoffed at a lot of calamity howlers bowlers that go around over the country and tell us a lot lotof lotof lotof of things that arent aren't so |