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Here's our own Monty Montgomery with a store. Dexter, Iowa, is a small town with a lot of heart. And even though its population has never exceeded a thousand people, There's a lot of history there. The Barrow Gang had a famous shootout there. They hosted an amusement park at one point.
And it was also once a presidential campaign stop. the presidential campaign stop for that election cycle. Here's Rod Stanley with more on that. Mm. Uh September 1948.
President Truman came to Dexter, Iowa for the National plowing match. And then it was a big deal. The national plowing match was a big, big deal. But what exactly is a plowing match? Roughly put.
It's a competition to see who's the best farmer. They judged them on, I mean, they judged them on different things. They brought their tractors and their plows, and there were judges that judged how well you plowed the field, how straight it was, how open it was. They had some other, like, Conservation, like making a pond. They made a pond on my uncle's farm.
They blew up, they're using dynamite, and they blew up. Land they made a waterway to drain water off and stuff. This was a statewide thing, so it was a national thing, too.
So there you had lots of people coming in from all. Like There was an airport south of Dexter, southwest of Dexter, and that day like 120 airplanes landed. and bringing people in. They estimated the crowd between 75 and 100,000. But how did President Truman even get involved in this whole thing?
It boils down to the drive of a radio personality. Truman's opponent. and like a lot of things in politics. Poll numbers. The guy he was running against was a fellow by the name of Thomas Dewey.
from New York. And Thomas Dewey was so far ahead in the polls. Herb Planbeck, famous WHO farm personality. was in charge of organizing this whole thing. And her plan back called or went and talked to Thomas Dewey.
and ask him, do you want to be the headliner out here in Dexter? and talk to these people. And do we Said in so many words, I'm pretty doing pretty well in the polls. I don't think I need to come out to Iowa and to talk to these people.
So Herb Planbeck then called up. and scheduled a meeting with with Truman. And normally They're on a limited time basis when they talk to the president and so on. But they made an appointment, they talked to Truman, and I actually went over the time limit because Truman liked talking. I mean, Truman was a, he was, he was one of those guys that liked to talk to, and he was, he was a former farmer too.
I mean, as far as he was a farming occupation before he got into politics. And uh He said, well, boys, he said, I would really like to come out and do that, but he says, I don't think the Secret Service will allow me to do what I want to do, and that's to go out and mingle and talk to people and so on. And so when Her Planbach left that meeting, he thought, well, gosh, I don't think Truman's going to come either. And so It kind of sat that way until like three weeks before the event. And The White House calls her plan back up and says Truman's coming.
That threw a whole big wrench because they had to make sure that the security had to be better, and there's a lot of things they had to do to prepare for the president. Truman started over in eastern Iowa. In Davenport on the Rock Island Railroad line, the one that runs through Dexter, and Goes across the state and he gave a speech there early in the morning. Then he gave a speech at Oxford, Iowa, I believe. Then a speech in Grinnell.
And a speech in Des Moines. Never in the world were the farmers of any republic or any kingdom or any other country as prosperous as the farmers of the United States, and if they don't, Do their duty by the Democratic Party. They're the most ungrateful people in the world. But those were just preliminaries, and he actually. I believe picked up his wife, Bess, and his daughter, Margaret, in Des Moines, and they rode the train out to Dexter.
The band, Dexter Band, was there to meet Truan. I believe they played the Missouri waltz for him when he arrived at the depot in Dexter. They had brought his Cadillac, his Robin Egg Blue Cadillac, out, according to my uncle Dean Stiles. About three days before, and everybody was wondering what the heck was that going on bringing that blue Cadillac out here. And eventually, they figured it out that it was the president, and he was going to be stopping and going out to the plowing match.
But he was concerned, still concerned, about the Secret Service blocking his style, but he came anyway. The people said that we're sitting with Truman. When Truman saw the crowd, When Truman saw how big the crowd was, he said his He had a smile from ear to ear. He was just loving it. He was saying, this is going to give me an opportunity to really get my camera.
I'm so far behind, it can't hurt. It's going to give me a chance to hammer home my points. The majority of these farmers that attended were of the Republican persuasion. But he got 13 ovations that day. And he really hammered on the Republicans to do.
The Do Nothings, he called them, the Do Nothing Congress. It was his first major campaign speech of the 1948 election. He used this type of campaign, the whistle stop. Using the train, traveling around, stop and talk in small towns to people. to actually turn the tide.
It's interesting. When Thomas Dewey found out 100 people, 100,000 people showed up in Dexter, Iowa. He got a little nervous. And he actually got the Republicans in in in in Iowa To have a campaign thing for him in Des Moines, and they actually got like 15,000 people. to hear Thomas Dewey gave a speech, which was a pretty good crowd, but nothing like Truman.
But anyway, when Truman was here He ate lunch. We have stuff in the museum, the tablecloth actually, that was on the table that he ate off of. But anyway, he ate lunch out there. We had fried chicken dinner, mashed potatoes, and corn and relish tray and all apple pie or had different kinds of pie. And then he went out on a He went out on a wagon.
To look at some of the projects, the conservation projects that they were doing that day. It wasn't only a a plowing contest, but there was some Like they were making a pond and they were making waterways and they were doing some other stuff, conservation things that out there in that area as well. But anyway, he went out and And he was on the back of a hay wagon. And of course the Secret Service was with him. They were cruising along and the Secret Service looked around and Truman wasn't on the wagon anymore.
And he had jumped off the wagon and he was heading down to where they were making this pond. And We called it Walker's Pond back when I was growing up. It was on Howard Walker's property. It was Piper property back in then. But, anyway, so.
Those people that were on the bulldozers had actually been told by the Secret Service earlier that if Truman came down there to turn off the bulldozers and Just sit on the bulldozers, and so if the president comes over and wants to ask you questions and that kind of thing. And so that's what they did. They saw this guy coming down, they figured it was Truman, or some of them recognized him, so they turned their bulldozers off. And Truman got down there and was just chatting with him, like, you know, like you normally chat with people. And he said, well.
Why'd you turn off your bulldozers for? I mean, you guys got work to do. He said, Well, we were told by the Secret Service to do that. Truman says, Well, he says, Next time they ask you to do that, you tell those SOBs that you aren't going to do that and you just keep right on working. You know, he got everybody got a big laugh out of that.
And of course, the Secret Service gets down there and puts him back on the wagon and away they go. But That was Truman, but he he did get to talk to some of the people out there. Like I said, this was a huge boost to his. It turned the tide. as far as his his election and He was really the only one in the articles I read, he was the only one.
Even his wife had given up. He was so far behind that he was going to lose and she said we need to start packing things up to get back to Missouri and live in independence with our house there and Trim is ah he doesn't want to give up yet and Yeah. Election came in November, and he was listening to it, and he was holding his own in it, and Dewey wasn't blowing him away. He goes to bed. Thinking that probably the next morning that you know that maybe I won't be president, but he was kind of had a quiet confidence.
He thought he was going to win. The next morning, the results are rolling in, and Truman's winning, and he's going to end up winning the election. It was a huge, huge upset. I mean, there was no way that he was supposed to win, but. They say That win all started right here in the one horse town.
of Dexter, Iowa in September of 48. And a great job as always on the production and the storytelling by Monty Montgomery. And a special thanks to Rod Stanley of the Dexter Museum in Dexter, Iowa. Dexter is a one-light town, and the small museum is right off the main street running through it if you're in the neighborhood.
Well, drop by and take a visit. We love visiting these really small, small towns and telling stories about them. And the national plowing match of 1948 helps propel. Truman to victory. The story of Dexter and Harry Truman's campaign victory.
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