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Article: DOWNING A DEMAGOGUE.(NEWS)
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- The Capital Times
- Article date:
- September 11, 2009
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Byline: Mike Miller
Of all the battles waged by The Capital Times against corrupt politicians and practices, none loomed more important in the history of the newspaper than that of the battle against Joseph R. McCarthy as he made his way from being an obscure judge to a U.S. senator of demagogic proportions who gave his name to a new "ism."
Long before McCarthy came under attack for his reckless labeling of various Americans as Communists or their sympathizers, William T. Evjue and The Capital Times had been exposing his wrongdoings, first as a judge, then as a U.S. senator.
And The Capital Times was among the first to recognize the ultimate ...