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Show 27 I notice SeRIO Bennett is lfttroducing 0 new .... Iution for censuring McCarthy for Q¢cusing his fellow solon, CGIIlRg to Sen. WGtktns, of _ting •• "handmaiden. t. the CGmmUAtstS. That reminds me of en .iGetfen four years • 'Nhen I was cot1tfMtift9 with Mr. Bennett for the lepubllcan sen.,ial nomination. I w. runnin, the tnte,terene'. at every intersec t'ien Oftd crossroads i·ft the state, oecwsl"l Sen. Thomas of beiA. ·putty in tn. hands of the pinkst but at the some time "ot ques tioning his good intentIons _Iey.tty. Mr. lennett w. bringing up the rear with his sermons on faith, hope and eharlty, but .. the tame time .ilently _quiesc ing in all that WCIS being ,old about Sen. ThGmos. Aftd what is more, he remotned .tlent dur:fng the .balance.f the e,ampolln while much more vl,etous ond unf.i, statements were being eiretdeted"ut his o'pponent. Is there so .UGh differeftc'. in silent acquiescence and th.ouhpoken accusations ef Sen. MeCerthy? At I look back on thot caRPailA, I regret very much. the part I played in it rDt • much fer whoi' I sald wt beo4lU&e of the miseQnC"eptiom that devetopee in the publiCl mind J w. an unwittlttS dupe ift thot eampal.i too. I w. eid ing ana abift9 another good man, whose personal integrity could: ACt be questioned but who h. proven ·putty in the han.' .. Of .. of certcain other in·terests not .f the p.pl e of hi' .tote. 36 WhU. moat persons., representative of the ,-"'cul.ny Republic .. .,kert, vast wh,o moJority peilclpeted in the 1950 campaign ..... et the $Currilous nature of the eampoia" and impreuien it I.ft with the eJect.rete, that Tho .. the question what he Q$ to whot Thoma spiritually 36 reeUy Communist, there lurks geAeroUy WG$f GI to really did"y 'A tho,e occasiGnS which propQ9Qndo eempoign on some was G w ... to mQior eGnc:eph Aft'et' a Q$ be used agaiNt him fn G reoUy to ctnd finally to crush him biographiccd sketch, in American government will be mlndv did thi"k, and to uns.at him Item his Senate chel, for the remainder of his life. Let-fe" to the whet he in its his utter_c. reproduced and examined Editor, Salt lake Tribune, November 20, 1954. |
