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THE PILOT—Southern Pines. North^arolina^
Friday) October 24, 1952
No Bill of Sale Given, And No Receipt,
When Men Bny Influenee^ln Gov’t
Editor Analyzes
1. W. Klause
ilites Held At
^ensalem Church
100 PROOF LIQUEUR
SOUTHERN COMFORT CORP.
ST. LOUIS 3, MISSOURI
'Soupy Whine'
Of Senator Nixon
We have been asked by sev
eral persons to republish the
following article by North
Carolina's senior newspaper
editor, a conservative and re-
'spected commentator on pub
lic affairs who speaks from> a
thorough grounding in events
of the past. Mr. Beasley is the
longtime editor of the Mon-
■ roe journal. He is the uncle
of John Beasley of Southern
Pines, editor and publisher of
the Moore County News, in
which this article appeared.
BY R. F. BEASLEY
James G. Blaine, Republican
nominee for President in 1884
missed election by a fraction over
JOHN C. PARRISH
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a thousand votes, whick turned
New York over to Cleveland and
thus nfade him president. Blaine
was known as a shifty politician
even for that time. His moral ob
tuseness was somewhat like that
now being displayed by Senator
Richard Nixon, nominee for vice
president. Roscoe Conkling, pow
erful Republican leader of New
York, was asked to defend Blaine
from attacks on his record. He
replied that he could not do that
because he had retired from crim
inal practice.
When the Bank of the United
States, /one of the most corrupt
things in the history of the United
States, WES seeking to have its
charter extended, Daniel Webster
wrote to it saying that if the Bank
wished him to continue to fight
its cause in the senate it must be
mere prompt in remitting its reg
ular retaining fee.
When the great General Grant
was President the thieves and
rogues and influence sellers oper
ated open and above board. Gen
eral Grant himself was not cor
rupt. He just didn’t know or much
care what was going on. One man
operated a stock brokerage office
in the name of Grant as a part
ner The rogues manipulated
Grant’s sdminiistrati'On for Jay
Gould and hishighwaymen who
cornered the gold market and
produced Black Friday.
Before the rise of the Demo
cratic rdachines in the big city, the
Republicans conducted the ma
chines both in the cities and the
state governments. They robbed
the cities and the . states with
equal enthusiasm. A little later
when the city machines became
powerful in the, hands of Demo
crats, and the state machines re
mained in the hands of Republi
cans, the_ two sets cf bosses and
rascals cooperated in dividing the
spoils.
All of this, of course, is water
under the bridge. It was a part
of the times and the lack of pub
lic conscience in leaders and the
powerlessness of the people. The
first world war was equal to that
which followed the civil war. The
Republicans had hounded Wood-
row Wilson to his death and the
first man they elected to the pres
idency permitted the coterie of
hignwaymen from his own state
of Ohio to steal everything that
was loose. He took into his cab
inet a man whO' as senator had
conducted a senate committee to
the death bed of Mr. Wilson to
see if he was assuming illness, or
if he were ill enough to be de-
jiared incapacitated for the of
fice. That man. Fall, sold the oil
of the naval reserve for $1,000,000
in cash delivered in a black hand
bag.
All of that is also water cveri
the dam. It is cited here only to
show the falsity and the inade
quacy of the speeches being pre-^
pared for General Eisenhower on
the matter of corruption in gov
ernment.
General Eisenhower’s speech of
approval and exoneration of Sen
a tor Nixon, immediately after
that gentleman had made his
soupy speech of confession and
avoidance, was astonishing. The
General showed awful bad taste
in lugging in the name, of the
dead General Patton to compare
him with the little simp who pull
ed the wool over his own eyes
and is now pulling it over the eyes
of the pubic. If General Eisen
hower was deceived by that
speech he is too confiding and
simple-minded .ever to fulfil his
constant boast that he can and
will clean up corruption. Nixon
made-a poor mouth and a whine
intended tO' catch simple-minded
and sympathetic people, but it
i should have had the opposite ef
feet upon a man assuming the
role of ethical champion.
Nixon’s own explanation of his
acceptance of money shows a
moral cbtuseness which unfits
him to be vice-president. He puts
himself in the class of the small
fry that accepts mink coats and
deep freezers and contends that
it i? not wrong.
The political history of this
country shows, and every
man familiar with it knows,
that money given to a pub
lic man as this money was
given to Nixon, was given,
and is always given for past
or prospective favors.
Such history also shows
that it is seldom necessary,
and rarely takes place, that
specific, things or deeds or
times or places are mention
ed. That is upt necessary. The
oil men and the real eotate
m**" and the horse-racing
millionaire who made their
contributions had no reason
to ask Mr. Nixon for specific
(favors. They are interested
in matters that are constantly
before Congress and knew
the Senator was voting or
would vole as they considered
the patriotic way.
When men buy influence
Sheriff Prepares For New Experience
As 2ncl Banigan Warrant Gqes ToN.Y.
County warrants'^
Funeral services were held at
Bensalem Presbyterian church
Tuesday afternoon for Robert
William Klause, 52, conducted by
the Rev. H. A. MacBath with bur
ial in the church cemetery.
Mr. Klause died Sunday night
at Mocre County hospital after
an illness of about a year. He was
born in Charlotte November 20,
1899, and for many years engaged
in the clothing business at Lau-
rinburg. On his retirement a few
years ago he and his wife moved
to Eagle Springs where they built
a home.
Surviving are his wife, the for-
mer Miss Bertha Frye of Moore
county; three sisters, Mrs. H. L.
Curlee, Lynchburg, Va; Mrs. Lu
ther Jcyner, Norfolk, Va., and
Mrs. A. G. Austin, Dallas, Tex.:
two brothers, G. A. Klause and
Joe Klause, Jr., of Charlotte, and
his stepmother, Mrs. Joe Klause
also of Charlotte.
Two Moore
are now in the hands of New r^ady becoming a little nervous.
York City authorities for Mrs.
Julie D. Banigan, former local
real estate agent, and Sheriff C.
J. McDonald of Carthage is antic
ipating with some apprehension
the summons to come to New
York and fetch her back.
This summons may be quite a
while coming—or it may never
come. However, our sheriff, who
in 24 years in office has become
famed as a man who fears noth
ing, admitted this week he is al-
in almost a quarter of a century
he has had to transport many a
prisoner many a mile. However,
in all these years, he said, he has
n6V6r hsd. to trsnsport s womsn
prisoner any distance.
He thinks it likely he will have
to have a woman deputy along
and is locking up the laws, to be
prepared.
Following after the first war-
rant sent to New York two weeks
ago, sworn out by a trustee of
Brownson Memorial Prsebyterian
church, last week .jyent another,
that of Wayne D. Boring and wife.
Both charge embezzlement in
connection with a land , deal.
First, though, Mrs. Banigan was
to have a hearing in New York
on a charge of violation of proba
tion. Then, extradition proceed
ings must take place succe^fuUy.
(When these were first tried, in
Rhode Island, they failed, on a
technicality.)
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and the other was because thous
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