POLITICS: GOON STYLE

...The "materials" it contained were supplied from the office of Sen...

...The others, among which was a Marcella DuPont contribution funneled through Mrs...

...These files, as everyone knew, were lying loose in a barn on E. C. Carter's farm up in Lee, Mass...

...They are proving that even a poor system, rigidly adhered to, occasionally produces miracles...

...Thomas C. Hennings, Jr., and the two Republicans, Sens...

...As this is being written, Monroney has justified the confidence of his Senate seniors...

...McCarran's boys have given their House counterpart a real lesson in showmanship...

...Ruth McCormick Miller], and Roscoe Simmons...

...The broad outlines of the trail it is following form an indispensable, if noxious part of the political education of an American...

...The Monroney Committee is breaking new ground, in the absence of all precedents, and to convict Butler for crossing the line which Dirksen, Capehart, Bennett, Smith of North Carolina, and others approached in 1950 would be convicting him by a retroactive law...

...The law is the issue, not Butler...

...Fedder wasn't surprised to hear that part of the story...

...while Surine tried to extract from Fedder a potentially incriminating letter written by the Republican Senatorial nominee in Maryland, John Marshall Butler...

...The four came to their task by the much criticized seniority system in reverse, since Rules and Administration is one of the low rungs on the committee ladder...

...From the Record was paid for through the Butler campaign headquarters and not by any group of "Young Democrats...

...There was the repeated "shortcir-cuiting" (the word is Jonkel's) of the official treasurer of the Butler campaign headquarters by Jonkel, McCarthy's Jean Kerr, and Mrs...

...The name was Don Surine: the occasion was the disclosure that Surine was the man responsible for intimidating a witness in the bigoted drive to defeat Senate confirmation of Mrs...

...And they were passed on by a Chicago public relations specialist, Jon Jonkel, imported by Mrs...

...The Monroney Committee is merely an investigating and reporting body, and in Monroney's own words, "if such a contest or challenge should subsequently develop," it would be tried anew under procedures established by the Senate Rules and Administration Committee...

...6 Surine and two companions had taken the printer on a gang-style "ride" in the dark hours of one to five a.m...

...The smear squad in the Butler-Tydings race was composed of Sen...

...John Marshall Butler...

...Joseph McCarthy...

...18 to the defeated Democrat with his story of Butler campaign tactics...

...Washington Post editorialist, in The Guild Reporter...

...On Nov...

...For they know who is waiting in the wings, smear brush and all, to greet them when their labors are completed...

...Nowhere in the tabloid was there a statement pointing out that the Tydings subcommittee was barred from taking evidence on any government employe who had not at one time or another worked in the State Department...

...They were there for the asking...

...The words "in this composite picture" formed the only clue the Maryland citizens could have that this alleged photograph was a complete fake...

...Then he recessed the open hearing, and in executive session procured a unanimous vote repudiating Butler's "privilege...

...James Cox in Ohio, Georgia, and Florida...

...McCarran—could have dreamed up that wonderful snowstorm touch: it's a wonder he didn't have his investigator use reindeer) and then shipped them by train, under an armed Treasury Department convoy, to Washington...

...There was the sudden recollection by Jonkel—it did not occur until he was ready to go before the Monroney Committee at the end of February—that even his "shortcir-cuiting" system had failed to record ten contributions totalling $27,100, including one for $1,000 from the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee...

...Alan Barth...

...Tydings (right) answered: "Oh, thank you, sir!' Browder testified in the best interests of those accused, naturally...

...Mr...

...Instead, they sent up an investigator who staged a dramatic raid, loaded the papers into a truck, drove them through a snowstorm to New York (not even Barnum himself—no one but Sen...

...Beneath it was the caption: "Communist leader Earl Browder, shown at left in this composite picture, was a star witness at the Tydings committee hearings, and was cajoled into saying Owen Lattimore and others accused of disloyalty were not Communists...

...Tydings' version of what Mr...

...It made me feel that it was wrong to withhold this information any longer," Fedder now says, referring to his experiences as printer of political material in Butler's successful campaign to unseat Millard Tydings, Democrat, as U. S. Senator...

...Hoover said is violently at variance with highly reliable information as to what he really did say...

...its composition is relatively' unJi*| portant, in the long haul...

...What was news to Fedder, as he listened to the radio, was the fact that the strong-arm man who took him for a ride was identified as being on the payroll of Sen...

...There is no law against lying about your opponent in an election except the law of libel open to every citizen...

...The majority of Washington reporters want these four to have their full meed of public approbation while they can get it...

...It was the composite Tydings-Browder photograph which shocked the Democratic Senatorial caucus in January with the knowledge that "there but for the grace of God, go I," and procured solid support for the Monroney investigation...

...I suggest that you obtain advice as to whether you should file such a report yourself . . ." The history of Senate election contests suggests that only the handling of his campaign expenditures might eventually afford a case for the unseating of Sen...

...Tydings with one arm embracing Earl Browder, the Communist leader...

...Margaret Smith and R. C. Henrickson, have gone the whole way with Monroney in a serious approach to an unprecedented problem...

...I do not conceive it to be my duty to report any money not received by me or any disbursements not made by me...

...Tydings' hand-picked whitewash boys were present to hear the J. Edgar Hoover testimony [on subversives in the government], and frankly, Sen...

...In 1950 this political phenomenon was not confined to Maryland...

...That was a calculated risk...

...There are Maryland and federal laws governing the reporting of campaign contributions, and when Jonkel belatedly submitted the additional list to the official treasurer, that gentleman replied to Jonkel: "I am sure you do not mean to intimate that I had any prior knowledge of the contributions or disbursements referred to in your letter of Feb...

...There is no law against importing from outside one's state a special goon squad intended to do a job on one's opponent...

...It was, in short, his possession of the Butler guarantee which brought Fedder, the Republican printer, his gang-style ride with Surine and Surine's threat to "fix me up and put me through a McCarthy investigation" if he didn't come across with the incriminating letter...

...He is awaiting trial for perjury for denying he was a Communist...

...6, including another $500 from Alfred Kohlberg, and a $1,500 "personal loan" from the ubiquitous Mrs...

...Sample: "There had to be a time that you had to decide whether you were going to win an election, complete your objective, or be real cozy about keeping everything in proper [financial] order...

...On the Friday and Saturday before Election Day last November, the householders of Maryland found on their doorsteps or in their mailboxes a four-page tabloid entitled From the Record, an ostensibly factual account of the recent Senatorial career of Millard Tydings and of the Foreign Relations subcommittee investigating "loyalty" in the State Department...

...The medal for style unquestionably goes to Jonkel, the public relations expert...

...But however unsavory was the gang that went into the "Free State of Maryland" to deceive its people, W. McNEIL LOWRY, The Progressive's Washington correspondent, ranges over a wide field of the top news producing areas in the nation's capital in his role as chief of the Washington Bureau for the four dailies owned by former Gov...

...But if the result of the Monroney probe is a law which can free future elections from Mc-Carthyism, Monroney will have surpassed the achievement he made in the fight for the LaFollette-Mon-roney Congressional Reorganization Act which was passed when the Oklahoman was in the House...

...Miller, carried to such a point that the printer, Fedder, had the autographs (in the form of check endorsements) of some of the staunchest McCarthyites in the nation...

...16 speech of Col...

...Nobody since Barnum's day has dared to perpetrate anything so glitteringly and transparently phoney as the Subcommittee's seizure of antiquated and mouldering files of the Institute of Pacific Relations...

...Ruth Miller's Washington Times-Herald...

...It was printed "as a favor" by Mrs...

...His back against the wall, Millard Tydings strove unsuccessfully in the last two days before election to nail the allegations against him...

...His Democratic colleague, Sen...

...McCarthy, Mrs...

...But he was fighting in the same cloud of ignorance that was befuddling the voters...

...Of equal importance is the frame of reference around the entire campaign—the absolute dominance of that campaign by an invading squad of hatchet men as bereft of Maryland citizenship as of ordinary scruples...

...Daily News, and taught for a while at the University of Illinois...

...Since opening day he has protected the rights of both Butler and the Committee's minority counsel in an elaborate manner fated to prolong the investigation for many weeks...

...Snowstorms and Senate Sleuths "The most flagrant case [of distortion achieved by press and politicians] is the hoax pulled on the press by the newly created Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Un-American Activities...

...An equally divided committee of Republicans and Democrats is conducting a formal hearing on an assumption altogether novel in politics: A political candidate must actually tell the truth when dealing in factual allegations about an individual American, even his opponent...

...Fedder held the only provable link between the respectable Senatorial aspirant, Butler, and the gang of hatchet men from the Wisconsin-Chicago-Times-Herald axis...

...The Senator from Oklahoma knows that Tydings, however the investigation concludes, is gone forever, but that the Senate remains...

...American political history may owe a great debt to Don Surine, its unsavory instrument, for had he not attempted to repeat himself by pulling another "McCarthy" in the Rosenberg case, the U.S...

...The FBI had been leafing through them for months—at the open invitation of the Institute...

...Sample: "Only Sen...

...For the purported sources of From the Record, the only label it bore, was the so-called "Young Democrats for Butler," officered by one Edward B. Freeman, chairman, and one John B. Purnell, treasurer...

...I thought we would prefer to win the election...

...Anna Rosenberg as Assistant Secretary of State...

...Robert R. McCormick to the effect that "the Republican victory in Maryland was preponderantly the work of the Times-Herald, 'Bazy' [Mrs...

...Fedder's expenses for distributing it were personally guaranteed by a signed letter from the GOP candidate Butler...

...Former Commie Spy Elizabeth Bentley told House committee he was a top Red agent...

...On the advice of two Baltimore neighbors, the printer, though a Republican, went Dec...

...There were the frequent unspon-sored broadcasts contributed by Fulton Lewis over Maryland radio stations...

...But the whole sordid account goes far beyond From the Record, the money quarrels between the printer, Jonkel's headquarters, Miss Kerr, and the general conduct of the political underworld...

...The enormous consequences of the printer's visit to Tydings are already being felt in the nation's capital...

...Miller, were all non-Maryland in origin...

...But its lies were no more significant about From the Record than their source...

...He is sitting in judgment of his peers, including the junior Senator from Wisconsin...

...More important, he will have won the respect of decent citizens and responsible voters everywhere...

...He has it in his power to write new standards of decency in the Senate...

...Only the McCarran group didn't ask for them...

...Fedder's story of his dealings with Don Surine and Jean Kerr, the McCarthy emissaries, will undoubtedly retain top billing throughout the Monroney Committee hearings, except for style...

...Before going to Washington he was associate editor ol the Dayton (O...

...Miller...

...Ruth McCormick Miller, publisher of the Washington Times-Herald, and associates of Mrs...

...From the first day of the probe he has barred radio and television coverage to cut down on the circus atmosphere surrounding so many Congressional hearings...

...Tydings' whitewash committee refused to take evidence against him and ordered him kept on the Commerce Department's payroll...

...Robert R. McCormick...

...He was passionate in his devotion to a responsible Congress when in the House...

...Miller to be Butler's campaign manager...

...What the Senate has under examination is the mid-century's contribution to political campaigning—the invasion of a state by a well-heeled, recklessly irresponsible band of political adventurers, bent on using any means, including the Hitler-Stalin tactics of totalitarianism, to destroy character and win elections...

...On page four of the tabloid was a picture of William Remington, former Commerce Department em-ploye now appealing from a convic tion for perjury, with the caption: "Handsome William Remington, a Commerce Department official who worked closely with the State De> partmcnt...

...Joseph McCarthy, Wisconsin Republican...

...Hoover testified only in public session with the full attendance of press, radio, and television...

...It was not until his Dec...

...At the bottom of page four was a picture of Sen...

...Remington was never employed by State, and the charge that Tydings "refused to take evidence against him" is, of course, a lie, as the former Senator has testified before the Monroney Committee...

...How many other such invasions occur in 1952 and afterward may well be decided by the Senate investigating committee bravely sniffing into the Maryland stench...

...When Butler jumped the gun on Tydings, the first witness, claiming personal privilege in a long statement denying the Committee's jurisdiction, Monroney let him proceed to his thundering close, which 'was shouted directly in Tydings* left ear...

...19 visit from the Baltimore printer, William Fedder, that Tydings was able to make the one identification that might have wiped off the tabloid's slime...

...Miller and of her uncle, the Chicago Tribune's Col...

...26, as you know such is not the fact...

...The job they did on Tydings was aided by radio commentator Fulton Lewis, Jr., in many unsponsored broadcasts, and a part of their funds came from Alfred Kohlberg, lobbyist for Chiang Kai-shek and the original source of McCarthy's notorious campaign against the State Department...

...The young Oklahoma Democrat, Monroney, has been thrown the hottest potato a freshman Senator has ever been asked to handle...

...Even his improved memory missed a few checks Monroney's counsel came up with Mar...

...Senate in all probability would never have investigated the Tydings-Butler contest...

...There was the importation to Maryland of Roscoe Simmons of Chicago as a specialist in procuring the votes of his Negro brethren, and the Nov...