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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 7, 1973)
Viewpoint r The Roar of The Tiger; DeFanged By SCOTT SPTTT AL The Tiger as the Senate sail roars, bougt now tbe thunder erf his passing stirs nc ears in the paLmca! j.mgVe except be famt hope <rf his cabs Wayne Morse is 73 He has no hope for future pahticai coenba: The ejecoac erf T2 defanged him He has not heki puhiic office in six years In mas: likelihood be never wul agarr Tbe need ic speak oat ac tbe issues iha: iabeied his The Tiger The Senator. remain Tbe faithful still bebeve and gather round as they did las: Sattr-day a: Hams Mali for a meetmg of tbe Democratic parry precinct workers They each noticed The Senator s:ti^ it. ’be free: corner as be ouonse: nr. atnitar.xr flanked by a friend x waiting Each, ir ms own way. geoofieeSai as bey passed ny HeDo Senator Too re .renting good Sc—tor ' Ho» ve ya teen Senator ~ Sm_e tremnlmg wt± ave Nice to see yos_ Senator The Senator Never ex-Senator. forme: Senatx ooce upoe a star Senator The Senatx Lie ‘The Coicoet " The G-ovemx A utie passed oc by seniority. a perpetually granted reminder He dxkit need die wtcte socktan fefe penned "S My Name Wayne Morse pinned to his lapel He was am zeg His People Some ’■ere not eves dote wises Wayne Morse started the firs: of ins M years is the Senate. CAbers had believed throughout his bombastic Senate campaign and through the -xesace su years as enie B* today is .971 They sell beheve. They are Oregon liberals. Wayne Morse is The Cresoc Liberal Lane County Democratic Chair person Jim Kkc«e*rsfc spoke "He ioesn : need an introdactxc He sands as Mr Lane County. Mr Oregon Mr United States Senate -Sesame Wayne Morse “ The faithfai stood in knee-jerk standing ovatwe for The Senator slboueced under the votive candles oi TV rights He thanked the precinct workers for them aid Them by verse and chapter to an audience who expected die service "T cannot Kress the importance of the ~4 eieetieB to the destiny of die repufabc "Never m oar history have the Amen can people ever been subject to such a ccmgM admimstranoc. "This country is beaded by the most corrupt president in the history of this nation He should have been impeached long ago “We must impeach Richard Nixon. We cannot stand another three and a half years of his rule.” Wayne Morse stood calmly in the pulpit His voice and gestures remained mild compared to the punching gestures and blistering, husky voice he used in speaking about the campaign He did not need his fabled thunder today The faithful Democrats believe. They listen to the man. their man, the man who has been There. He was not a peon who carped on street corners and passed leaflets and bitched at the TV press conference Wayne Morse was hatching when it was damned un fashionable to bitch about about offing goofcs on the floor of the Senate. Some elevate him to the status of Prophet on the Vietnam war But the Gulf of Tonkin vote was 10 years ago. To the faithful gathered, his words were a litany, a comforting rosary from The Senator The Senator has carried the litany of ihe Liberal to a retired deification—the Totemization of Wayne Morse, if you will. He has been chanting the litany to the newsmedia for years The media listen, as the faithful listen. He is good copy— Wayne Morse never misses the op portunity for a jibe. He talked to one reporter, and as the cold autumn wind wotaid around the comer and ruffled the eyebrows curling over the bifocals, the reporter asked the cruel questions Do people listen anymore, do the words still have an effect? Is the litany you chant heard only by those who believe’ Are you becoming the eider stateman, a fond memory’ The old man seemed not to have heard “Well, yes, they listen.” He wait on to talk about bow he had given his statements on Nixon’s impeachment until 2 a m., and had barely finished when a man called from Boston and said how much he appreciated Morse. He quickly slipped into the comfort of reaction. “Do you know you live in a police state” as if be didn't notice the change in topic The reporter pauses to ask again, but he left Without a good-bye, or barely a glance, he turned and walked out of the Hall, off to the jungle wars It doesn’t seem to matter if Wayne Morse is heard anymore, or if be bears It doesn’t matter if the Roar of the Tiger DeFanged only sen es to remind a glance at the faded, patchwork fir Die faithful listen They must listen. It is the Senator’s life. Spittal is an Emerald staff writer. Letters Back b at Greg Las~ spring twerty-twc of us students paired off anc aer la red candidacy for the A5ITG Lots of reasons mine twr was try.ng :c .impress this neb young Ms down the st*e? I shU dec', cscm what she mug- of it all Gaos I kicked tie a mutt potting :r oeeoone-er for the French Poodle nert doer Least I «a5 toad that bv Other politicians nad their reasons too nut when it came to a solid session of ex plain it or what do you know about government'' some of us looked a little raw to be vying for a job that controls the ASUO. Greg and Debbie didn't come oc that way Both had explored Political Science and Student Government till they knew how it worked and that was long before they even came to the U of 0 They just had it together, no jibing Debbie had something extra to add. she was of the negroid race and knew- intimately the problems the racial minorities laced here at this mige sloppy-rich Oregoc excuse for 2 University. Well at leas to some of the students. Gregor appears mooed They noth stumped their rear ends of? dumrg the campaign finding -out wnat was what Aad people knew it Uafcrtanaleiy they made art unpopular decost or with Day Care neneftttee s m order x awe the majority scene hacks Which alarmed daycare Seneftttee s no end It stL. rase t ended They fee tne nudget tar. ne stretched i. UN dofian ary oud me x bafcymt them L_ -ChiLum Now I a dm re L_ rSrCrjff toe nut I dor t rave ary and I wager neither at A IM i my febow flakoh wnc read tut e er Prtoaay no wnere ei» c*hd a Good Poiruaaa ra-.e made a mire wae-wpwae drrrtttw Ft c a wnttwig at a~ for ar ex Dayeare Beaefruee to dairy react the pose: wnere lull •'ThtTngy appear to be ar xprodurine wats: is ha Me aad tompaae iowdy abn* c. I would be laeaug IOC Becky a la fact if I bad Lil Q.ilhg» I migrr. e-rec copy cat Jtno’i plight tbo that's precy mean '**( ^ - Ml* NOW, ON WITH THE INVESTIGATION . . . Tti.: & d l warn : of the- majority who oenefittesc, Do you trr-ig they'Z ever stop bitch o Gref’ Ex-USMC. Pre-Med Rickard M Bireher 1b the EahiM ) report of the panel dacsanon of "Nixon Saw'*" that the Political So ere* Student UmoB sponsored on * October your reporter referred to a source that I had quoted on usog the tactKS of rmimiiiiqr to fight COED - man bbt. The quotation came from the Las Aagefcs Tines of II March ISC. In am editorial of 12 March, the Times had criticized the John Birch Society for fighting “Communists in Communist fash*® .” The editorial attracted national at tention probably in large part because the then new publisher of the Times. Otis Chandler had recently succeeded his father and was breaking with the reac tionary traditions of the Otis and Chandler families The next weekend, the Times published a collection of letters about the editorial mo6t of them commendatory, including one letter that in turn attracted national attention Tbe author wrote, in part. “I can well '-mderstand how many well-intentioned people tend to reach the conclusion that the only effective way to fight (sub versive i organizations is to use the same evil methods they employ.. .But there could be no more damgerous fallacy. One of 'be most indelible lessons of human history is that those who adopt the doctrine that the end justifies the means inevitably find the means become the end.” If the language suggests unwillingness to break altogether with the Birchers. it probably suited the purposes of the author, who was preparing for a campaign in which he accused Governor Brown of California of being “soft on communism." although he was also embarrassed at the Birchers' attacks on President Eisenhower as pro-Communst. Certainly the sentiments were neither original nor a firm restatement of traditional liberalism. But the signature made them news, according to the classic formula of man biting dog. It was that of Richard M. Nixon. Earl Pomeroy Professor of History
