Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-10-08
Humans Standard
Of Morality Is Low
Senator Taft Saws
BY the Associated Press


CHICAGO, Oct. g. Senator
Taft last night climaxed a day
long Illinois campaign swing by
describing President Truman as a
man whose whole standard of
morality is pretty low"
The Ohio Senator hit at Presi-
dent Truman in his major speech
of the day-a review of what he
called "the low standard of public
morality in Washington"
In an address to an audience
that filled the 1000 seats of Zion
Temple at Zion, ILL.,, about As miles
north of Chicago, Senator Taft
said:
mfr. Truman himself has said
that he knows of no mess in
Washington. Such a statement
only shows that his whole stand
ard of morality is pretty low and
is in line with his condoning of
the revelations so frequently
brought to his attention"
Senator Taft, campaigning for
Gen, Eisenhower, said Gov. Ste
venSon, Gen. Eisenhower's oppo-
nent, can not "clean house" be-
cause he would be a prisoner"
OF the present administration.
Calls General Best for Job.
''It is an impossible political
maneuver for a man of the same
party to come into Office and do
any drastic housekeeping as Gen.
Eisenhower could do, Senator Taft
asserted.
He said the job cannot be done
by an administration with any
obligations or connections with
present office holders"
The Ohioan said, people have
come too much to feel that Gov
eminent must inevitably be cor
rupt and revelations merely a
matter of course" He added, 1T
do not believe that this means
that they approve of it,"
Senator Taft urged his listeners
to regard the Republican ticket
as your mop and bottle of dis
infectant in this Nation wide
cleanup program"
Describes Harmony Meeting.
In an earlier talk. Senator Taft
described his New York meeting
with Gen. Eisenhower last month
as move to dispel any fears that
the Republican candidate might
have new deal leanings.
Senator Taft said he met with
his Republican convention rival
to be treasured that the party's
nominee would conduct a real
Republican administration" The
meeting, he added, enabled Sena-
tor Taft to reaSSure. those who
supported Senator Taft's unsuc-
cessful campaign for the nomina-
ton.
Some Of my followers were
doubtful" Senator Taft said, "be-
cause a good many New Deal
newspapers had supported Gen.
Eisenhower. and so I thought it
desirable to meet with him so I
could reaffirm to my own friends
the views I knew he held and had
previously expressed"
The Senator reported on the
New York breakfast meeting with
the Republican nominee in a.
speech from the steps of the Kane
County Courthouse in Geneva,
some IS miles west of Chicago.
State Department Cleanup.
The Senator said he is con-
vinced Gen. Eisenhower is OPP
posed to increased spending, tax
alton and bureaucracy" He PROM
ised the general could "clean out"
top State Department personnel,
including Secretary Acheson.
Those who contend that Gen.
Eisenhower has surrendered to
the Senator never can point out
any respect in which Gen. Eisen-
hover has changed his views"
Senator Taft said.
Sheriff Anthony Wedgman esti-
mated $500 persons turned out
in Geneva for the address. How
ard Kellett. Sheriff Wedgman's
chief deputy, estimated a similar
number heard Senator Taft speak
outside the Elgin National Watch
Co. factory in Elgin, where the
Senator defined Republican tariff
policy.
Elgin, one of the leading jeweled
watch manufacturers in the Unit
ed States, has been campaigning
for tariff protection against the
importation of competing Swiss
watch movements.
A Republican Congress, Senator
Taft told the crowd which includ-
ed a large number of watchmak-
ers on their lunch hour, would
vote against "any reciprocal trade
agreements unless they contained
clauses providing that when i'm
ports reach the point where they
endanger American industry,
denomination should be made"
The Senator said he is against
any tariff law giving the President
absolute authority.