Evening star., 1952-11-01
Senator Nixon's 5 Votes
Paid of His Backers,
President Charges
By Joseph A. Fox
Stur Stuff Correspondent

PRESIDENT truman charged today
that Senator Nixon, of California,
the Republican vice presidential
candidate. had paid with. his votes
for the $4,000 expense account he
admits accepting from supporters.
Mr.. Truman said pointedly that
the possibility that the Californian
might succeed to the presidency;
il the G. o. P. wins Tuesday, "is
a dismal prospect.
The President turned his heavi-
est guns on Senator Nixon here,
as he neared the end Of his
whistle-stop campaign for the
Stevenson-Sparkman ticket. From
all indications. he was battling
for a losing cause this year in
Indiana. which went Republican
by a narrow margin, In 1948.
A Democratic leader who was
aboard the presidential special
yesterday. said there was no doubt
that Indiana's 13 electoral votes
would go to the Eisenhower-Nixon
ticket. The only question, he said,
was whether the Republican ma
jority could be kept under the
100000 mark. and thus perhaps
make it possible for Democratic
Gov. Henry F. Schricker to knock
OF Senator Jenner, Republican.
Heads Into Illinois.
From Indiana. the President was
moving into Illinois, where several
stops were planned. including
some street-corner appearance in
the industrial area across the Mis-
sissippi River from st. Louis,
where the President tonight makes
his final speech in Kiel Audito-
rum.
Then he goes home to jackson
County to vote.
Illinois still rates as debatable
territory. Missouri appears to be
a shoo-in for the Democrats who
won there by more than 260, 900
votes in 1948.
President Truman has taken
|potshotS several times at Senator
Nixon. since the expense account
revelations a few weeks ago, but
today. he went all-out.
"You may have heard some
thing about the contributions q
"millionaires' club" made to help
Richard Nixon get along in life, j"
the President said. "They gave
him a fund of $18,000-almost
5000 a month-while he was a
senator. Now. I'm not going to
express an opinion about that
fund-whether it was ethical or
not. I leave that to you to judge.
But do want to call to your at
tention the fact that Senator
Nixon has proved himself a good
investment for those fund con-
tributors.
"Worth a Little Subsidy"
"That 'millionaires' club in
cluded men whose business inter-
ests were oil, real estate. big man
ufacturing. banking and insur-
ance. Now, I urge you to compare
these interests with the way the
Republican vice presidential can
didate has voted in the Congress.
You'll find out why they thought
he was worth a little subsidy"
Offering "some examples" Mr..
Truman said that the Californian
had voted for legislation to give
tidelands oil reserves to the States.
and explained that is why oilmeh
like him.
"He has voted against the peo-
pie on low-rent housing, on slum
clearance, on farm housing and
on effective rent controls. That's
why the real estate crowd likes
him so much" he continued.
"He has voted time after time
against effective price controls.
That's one reason why the big
corporations like him so much.
"He was one of the leaders in
the fight for the House version
of the Taft-Hartley Act-which
was even more violently anti
labor than the final product.
That's why he's a favorite of the
National Association of Manufac-
turers.
Fought Social Security.
"He has voted for cutbacks in
social security, and against ex-
|pansion of the social security pro-
gram. That's one of the reasons
he's in good with some of the big
insurance executives, who still
don't realize that social security
has helped the private insurance
business. ..a
HE has voted against the people
in supporting special tax benefits
for big business and the rich-and
he has opposed making them pay
their fair share of our defense
costs. That is one reason why all
the money interests have be-
friended him.
even where the. big business
lobbies do not seem to have a
special axe to grind, Senator
Nixon has followed a pattern Of
voting against measures that mean
progress for the ordinary people
of our country"
The President said also that
Senator Nixon has consistently
voted wrong on civil rights" ac-
cused him Of following the isola-
zionist line. and added:
"He actually cast the deciding
vote against aid to the Republic
Of Korea. five months before the
Communist invasion Of that coun-
try"
Reminding his audience that a
Vice President is "only one heart
beat" removed from the presi-
dency, Mr.. Truman obliquely