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...schoolmaster named Jânio Quadros. Quadros whipped the wave of Paulista protest still higher by pointing out that the government had paved streets in new real-estate developments for its speculator friends at a cost of $4,480,000 a mile, of which $4,000,000 was straight graft. "The people wanted a change . . . A lamppost could have been elected," admitted Big Boss Adhemar afterwards...
...self-styled Don Quixote who trod on Quirino's toes by pushing his investigations of municipal graft embarrassingly close to the presidential palace, Lacson likes to boast that he "calls a spade a spade, and if necessary, a dirty, stinking, lousy shovel." Not surprisingly, it was his tongue (which a Manila hostess once suggested he should send to the laundry) that got him into trouble. Lacson was sued for libel-and gladly suspended by President Quirino-after he publicly denounced his deputy chief of police as "ignorant, an ignoramus and incompetent...
Williams' very lack of qualifications, the simplicity of his operation, is a part of the story. If the graft had been very hard to find, Williams wouldn't have found it. All he had that the Administration didn't have was independence of the system of political favoritism under which the graft flourished. The "secret" of his success is that the bulk of his information comes from Government employees. Once he had stumbled on his first exposure he became known as a man to whom honest Government employees could turn to expose their dishonest fellows. Williams protected...
...part, goes to the other extreme. Bug-eyed over details--costs, inefficiency, and the like--Republicans do not see the large issues. More and more they have become minor demagogues, bellowing now about socialism, now about graft, leaving nothing undone to discredit the social and foreign gains wrought by twenty years of liberalism. Theirs is a policy of opposition at any cost, and although if in power they would change little, they have adopted the most negative sort of conservatism...
...record, what of his experience in such fields as foreign affairs? As Governor of Illinois, Stevenson not only achieved a program of road improvements, of more adequate aid to schools, and of remedies for a host of problems his predecessors had left unsolved, but he did it efficiently, without graft, and without raising the state's general taxes since 1948. He has cleansed the state police, closed gambling houses, and he has fired political payrollers wholesale--many of them Democrats--replacing them with some of the best executives in state government. And he has vetoed a number of bills because...