Word: mccarthyism
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...issue of McCarthyism hangs over Wisconsin politics like a pea soup fog. From Milwaukee to the Canadian border, it dwarfs the normal Senatorial issues in the press and public discussions. Because of it, Joseph R. McCarthy is favored to win reelection even though he has made not one campaign speech and has a voting record that defies the will of his constituents...
Through all the fog and emotion plods Democratic nominee Thomas Fairchild, trying to conduct a normal Senatorial campaign. Although he bears a proud family name in the state, and is his party's best vote-getter, Fairchild knows he probably cannot win the election on the McCarthyism issue. In a state with a large Catholic population and a strong residue of isolationist sentiment from La Follette's day, McCarthy has somehow convinced the voters he has bagged Communists with his blunderbuss attacks...
Beer claimed the evils of McCarthyism would increase with a GOP victory. Bundy, however, countered that Eisenhower could control the Wisconsin senator more effectively than Stevenson...
...hope to climb to political power on their backs. Reactionary extremists attack American unions as unnecessary or greedy-and hope to climb to wealth on their broken backs." Instead, Eisenhower pledged "a government that would give fair and just hearing to all labor's needs and problems." Communism & McCarthyism. "The first [extreme] attacks the danger with a zeal that takes no account of our civil liberties. It wounds the innocent as well as the guilty. It is a parody of righteous justice. That extreme I have firmly and explicitly renounced . . . The opposite extreme, is no less repugnant...
...concluded with the opinion that "McCarthyism is the evil element in this election, and it is not going to be confined to Wisconsin...