South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-12-03

man n .>ewoerry issuing from the reaeral court
Grand Rapids can be readily understood by one
who remembers the close relationship between the
subernatoriaI and senatorial campaigns in the VOL
VERNE state last year The indictments exposing
E statewide blanket 81 political crookedness reach
all the way down from United States senator.
through the governorship--though the governor "a
indicted-to the boys in the wards including
several editors and occasional township super
visors. and evidence one of the most gigantic con-
spiracies political since the building
the state houses at Harrisburg and Albany
The indictments are photograph OF Michigan
politics; the story the system the concrete.
The republican organization proHted from it.
The campaign developed into of pretty much
everybody hitched the Newberry kite There is
a remnant OF the same system" under investiga-
ton just across the line in Berrien county.
with every evidence Of desire on the part of Gov.
seeper's investigators down from the attorney
generals office. TO whitewash the misfeasances and
maIfeasances complained Of just the United
States senate whitewashed Newberry Reference is
made TO the investigation OF sherin Hogue at ST
Joseph
plain enough, from the modus operandi of
the investigators that they more concerned in
gathering evidence to convict the complainant
against Sheriff Hogue--in a couple Of trumped-up
libel suits a threatened contempt case, and on 4
charge Of critclsing infallible institution
a bank,-than they in getting at the bottom
of the sheriffs operations. They very loath in
deed about following any suggestions from the
compliments counsel. with regard matters de-
serving OF their consideration
One might easily the attitude OF the
Sleeper investigators that they have been sitting
a grand jury in the OF Editor waltsgott OF
the Eau Claire Journal, rather than probers into
the alleged misconduct OF Sheriff Hogue 1t is the
Michigan system" indeed the republican "sys-
TEN" pretty much everywhere with Sen. Newberry.
the United States senate, Gov Sleeper and finally
or down the little two-by-four machine in Ber-
county The order is to molycoddle the critical
where they can trade with them next If they
must and If they can't do that, then buy them IL
they will SELL AS a last resort, the process is TO
crush" 1t is only because Henry Ford, who
Mr. Newberry's opponent in the primary and state
elections wouldn't mollycoddle, scare. trade, sell.
and couldn't be crushed, and that the controversy
of the state into the federal courts, that
the indictments available al ALL
Maybe the Grand Rapids indictments will ba
enough of a lesson TO Gov. Sleeper, and enough of
exposure OF Michigan political and official
rupton, to encourage him TO withdraw his protect
ing from around the Berrien county sheriff.
it will only incite him TO extend his protecting
solicitously still Anyhow. it is a brilliant spot
light thrown upon a condition that been chat
ing the more right minded people of Michigan for
decades-explans a lot of things, only in the
last senatorial fight over there elections that
have been taking place in Michigan for years.