The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1953-06-18
THE GREAT
GAME OF
POLITICS
He Thrives On Abuse
BY FRANK r. KENT
Copyright by The Baltimore Sun and re-
printed in The Republican by permission.


1t has gotten so that in this
country to say a word about Sen.
Mccarthy not deuunciatory or
even mildly favorable is to subject
ones self to a more violent denun-
citation from the anti-McCarthy
elements when their man is de
nounced or slulred.
This is not written TO defend
Senator Mccarthy. On the con-
trary, it is written by one who
thoroughly disliles his methods,
his manners, his admitted devil
ations from the facts and, fur
thermore, dislikes him as a man.
1t is written solely for the purpose
of pointing out that the violence
and virulence of the anti-McCarthy-
ties has reached a point where it
no longer is doing Mr. Mccarthy
harm but is actually building him
up into being a considerably more
potent public figure than he actu-
ally is. In short, Senator Mccarthy
is profting by the assaults Of his
enemies
This, Of course, is not to say
Senator McCarthy's misstatcments
of facts should be allowed to 90
uncontradicted. 1t is to say that
the passion with which he is being
daily assailed-and sometimes I'M
fairly defeats its purpose and
gives to Mr.. Mccarthy an impor-
tance to which he is not entitled.
The best example Of this was the
recent convention in Washington
Of the Americans for Democratic
Action, an organization dedicated
to the principles of the late Frank
lin Roosevelt, Harry Truman and
Adlai Stevenson, whom it sup
ported. AS the Washington Eve
ming Star cditorially pointed out,
none of these heroes dominated
the convention. Practically every
session was uoiiiiii'''eu ~ -'i' : a
thy.
Actually, the proceedings were
so saturated with Mccarthy de-
nuhcIatlons that everything else
the convention did got scant notice.
Mccarthy was IN nearly every
headline resulting from the SIN
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