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Show fly Weslbrook Pegler Belied by WNU Feature. UBICE MILLIGAN, who sent M'warrv Truman's boss and pa-t pa-t prison, has published the history of the Kansas Kan-sas City election frauds and related atrocities under the title of "Missouri Waltz." The design on the jacket is the criminal mug of No. 55,295, Tom Pender-east, Pender-east, who served an f a4 V c.ent stretch of 15 months in venworth penitent.ary president Truman was the protege a creature of this gross, brutal H ereedy ignoramus. Milligan's hi reviews Mr. Truman's poll-I poll-I We and reluctantly finds him. .1 last, not innocent. With those relatively few other Americans who understood the "Liness of the Kansas City po-machine, po-machine, Milligan had tried ' to rationalize Truman's relationship Pendergast and excuse his conduct con-duct Now he finds that it can't be Ami No honest man with a loath- . trior such criminals as Mr. Tru-I Tru-I mn found congenial, even admir-; admir-; can disagree with Milligan. i wishing can't make him decent. Mil-La Mil-La recaUs that when Mr. Truman -assumed the greatest responsibility i ever thrust on an American citizen." h aU Americans were for him. " That is true even of those who, J by familiarity with the Kansas City crimes, had to keep in mind the depressing truth that Mr. Tru-, Tru-, man's whole career in politics was ' based upon fraud and corruption 1 0f the ballot and government. He 2 1 had been the knowing beneficiary f of notorious frauds in his elective elec-tive offices he had held up to the vice presidency of the United States. The Pendergast machine in Mr. Truman's own active time protected -I the criminal underworld of prostitution, prostitu-tion, narcotics and bootlegging and shared in its revenues. Mr. Tru-el Tru-el j man knew it. It stole elections, thus j frustrating the civil rights of the j, j people. Mr. Truman knew that and ojil how it was done. I "In the weeks that J) EeBore immediately fol-iJl fol-iJl gjV lowed" Mr. Truman's mil Burdens inauguration to sue- I ceed Roosevelt, MU- ligan writes, "All of us were pulling ! for Mr. Truman. On his shoulders u'as the burden of the world." But all Mr. Truman did was trans-' trans-' fer his allegiance from Old Tom to , Tom's nephew and political heir, :vj Jim Pendergast. In December, i 1945, alter he had become President, J he publicly paid his dues to Jim Pencil Pen-cil dergast's political club, , the same m one through which Old Tom had W ruled and robbed the town. His check and the accompanying letter are framed oh the wall of Jim Pen- de-gast's office. I On the same wall hangs a White House portrait of Mr. Truman in-scribed in-scribed "To James M. Pendergast -j, friend, comrade, adviser." He bade " him to the White House as his fam-j fam-j ily guest. ; Alter Old Tom's release from r prison he was forbidden by the terms o! his parole to take active part in ) politics. The evasion was simple. I He acted through Jim. 1 Milligan's final abandonment of I hope that decency might exist in r E Mr. Truman, was restrained until 7 I in 1916 the President ordered Jim Ptodergast to purge Roger Slaugh-, Slaugh-, kr, & Democratic congressman N 'rem Kansas City. J- Scandal ensued, but the corruption now had spread notoriously to the department of justice in Washing- ton. The federal investigation and -TJ prosecutit"i stopped dead. Milligan had con-S con-S 1 1 Amefeen victed 259 of Mr. Tru-Are Tru-Are man's and the Pen-?r, Pen-?r, I Dhmissed dergasts' henchmen of V , vote frauds in the 1936 X election. Of the 278 who were in-,,, in-,,, , d for aImst unbelievable ras-51! ras-51! ." in the polling, 19 were dis-Ktl! dis-Ktl! missed, but all who went to trial Ib' Mre convicted. chaff' pYet' Mr- Truman, then serving ,ef;d "ndergast in the senate, rose up in f !,,eMC!,amber in 193S- in the midst , Ml"'San's conduct of these trials, ffl 0 Wose his reappointment. It was ,n "u'rageous attempt to influence verdicts. President Roosevelt, -i some reason, reappointed Mil-Zl Mil-Zl "evertheless, but in 1945, when - ma ,. become vice-president, Tru- t M i? Uy was abIe to eliminate j I to h'San and substit"te a man more ai ms moral and political liking. tm w, Truman's current political u$ 'tr ubl" ith the old Solid South m,6, m a Pretense of high I-i rr.,.00,lcern about civil liberties "4 the right to ote. him!'.' Was Migan who bethought 5- S sol" dead-leUer laW' ample ! Mr t uthern case today, to punish city f man8 0WD ea"S to Kansa ! stitu Ping to violate the con-fft con-fft ' in " right ' dtken to vote ,0 ! a 1 be counted ! 2'k Persecution. w?41 City story is 016 story 1' ' allied w niman. 'or he has always T. i nti with the lowest ele" Mtic, nSas City Wld Mis"""11 s |