The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-11-03
VOTE! VOTE AS YOU PLEASE
BUT PLEASE VOTEr

That appeal to voters has been made for several
weeks and part of it good advice and the other
part something of insult to an American who values
UNNECESSARILY his citizenship and its highest privilege -
voting
Think of asking somebody to perform what he es-
teens duty Think of asking him to please perform it.
In the election tomorrow every good American will vote
and ne would resent anybodys saying to him. "Please
VOTE He considers voting the greatest privilege in our
democracy and he fails assuming he is not ILL., to
exercise that privilege
AS to that other type of American who shrugs aside
his privilege to VOTE asking him to please vote" is
waste OF time He may argue till he is blue in the face
that ne is good American but he does not vote tomor
roy ne Is NOT good American Vote you please
y singing rebuke of communist Russia, where its peo-
PIE vote as the Kremlin orders them to vote
Let US be fair to both Democrats and Republicans
about mudshoyeng in this campaign. Eisenhower COM
Plains about being meared and then proceeds to
Truman OF playing "gutter politics" Truman complains
ABOUT the mud thrown at him. and then proceeds to lam
bast Eisenhower for dropping into the gutter to play
politics with his pal gutter snpe Joe Mccarthy It has
been amusing the way side has accused the other of
mucslnsng when each side has dumped a carload of
mud on the other side.
Newspapers and news commentators disagree about
what they consider the chief issue in this campaign The
Citizen maintains that on high plane of morality Rich
ard Nixon the Republican candidate for vice president
is the chief issue.
When it was revealed that Nixon had received $751;
200 expense money from friends Republican newspa-
pers from border to border and shore demanded
that Nixon resign and let other Republican run for
vice president. Then Nixon gave accounting" that
aid not account for termination of the way the fund
was spent 1t buried under blanket of postage
campaign literature, etc, ETC.. Republican newspapers
took him back into their bosoms though several said
Nixon had been unfair in disclosing this fund when
ne was offered the nomination. that the convention
could have looked elsewhere for vice presidential NOM
nee.
PRESIDENT Truman justified last Friday when he
charged that Nixon has can unSavory financial record
Added to the $4,000 fund disclosure which Republican
headquarters admitted unethieal" it was disclosed
early last week, that Mrs, Nixon in March 1851 signed
sworn statement in California that she and Senator
Nixon were not worth more than $4,000 -Four months
later Nixon made down payments Of SSl 900 on house
In Washington and house in California
Last week it also disclosed that Nixon took time
out while campaigning in August to write letter to the
American Embassy in Havana in behalf of his friend
Dana C. Smith. who had lost $4,000 gambling in the Gu
ban capital and had stopped payment on check for that
amount This is the Smith who handled that
Nixon expense" fund
The Citizen reterateS that no wonder people all over
ne country asking they can vote for Eisenhower
without voting for Nixon. They CAN'T vote for Essen
aower is vote for Nixon.