In May 1922 he drove his Dodge all over the county, knocking on doors. His platform had two major selling points: (1) Honesty. Truman promised not to filch county purses, as was custom in the past. His family had lived in this rural community for years, and people knew the Trumans to be trustworthy and true to their word; and (2) Roads. Henry Ford’s Model Ts had swarmed the county, and Truman believed that a new arterial system of paved roads would usher Jackson County into the future.
