Arizona republican., 1919-11-30
MICHIGAN GRAND JURY INDICTS SEN.
 TRUMAN NEWBERRY
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These 5S alleged overt acts were charged against 14 men and carried accusations of having given rewards ranging from promises of "a good job" to payments of sums carrying from S5 to S2,750 as returns for support or ac- tivity in the Newberry campaign. One country editor is alleged to have re- ceived a ton of printing paper.
 The extreme penalty which may be imposed under the indictments is fine of S10,000 dollars and two years 
 Names Withheld
 The identity of only the chief fig ures in the case were revealed in corr' today. On instructions from Judge Clarence w. Sessions of the United | States district court the names of the | others were impounded, to be released | only when their owners have been | served with warrants based upon the | indictments.
 Government officials asserted that ! the testimony presented to the grand | jury had revealed a political scandal l that in many respects was without parallel in American annals. They said it extended from the most popu- lous wards of Detroit to the Indian
  perior where aborigenes were voI according to the behest of the -ew- berry campaign organization.
 Allege Voters Bribed
 It was alleged that voters were bribed. election boards corrupted, edi- tors subsidized and moving picture theaters bought up in the endeavor to defeat Henry Ford, first in the pri- maries of both parties, and later. when he had won the democratic nomination, in the election itself.
 Officials were bit secretive as tn how the alleged conspiracy was un- covered, but a general outline of their methods was made available. "A corps of investigators were sent into the state under direction of Earl J. Houck, who with Frank Daily, special assist ant to the attorney general, was cen- tral figure in the election fraud cases of Terre Haute, Indianapolis, Evans vile and Frankfort, Indiana. These cases, beginning in 1915, resulted in some convictions.
 Daily and Houck came to Michigan last August. Bank records were in- spected and visitors lists of safety deposit vaults gone over. With the tale of these as a starter, the investi- gators were sent out They visited small fry" politicians first, offering | them vague hints of what might come from mythical campaign of a cer- tain Michigan politician. Objections to small returns were followed by "confidential' comparisons with the Newberry campaign.
 Small Fries" Fall Into Trap
 Generally it was said, these lesser ! f~l1 t,,+1 ing what they had received and ex- plaining who ought to handle the money in given wards of towns. The next grade of political leader was then approached and by this method. 1t was stated. clear trail was blazed to the higher ups" When brought into the grand jury room and confronted with accurate accounts of their conversa- tions with the agents, the men general ly, it was said, repeated their stories.
 The governments legal experts, headed by MT. Daily, H. Dale Souter, of Grand Rapids, former assistant district attorney, and Oliver Pagan, indictment expert for the department of justice, took both state and federal laws as the basis for the Indictments The federal corrupt practices act oi
 
 rial candidates to s10,000 and requires that four statements be filed with the secretary of the senate, one preceding and one following first the primary and then the election.
 The Newberry affidavit cited in the second indictment was filed in core spondence with this act
 The second federal corrupt practices act. which the indictments alleged was violated, was passed in October, 1918 It made bribery of voters a crime after several federal courts held that sucl an. act was not an offense against tht laws of the United States. This law came Into being after the Michigan ! primary, but just ahead of the cleo ton
 Claim State Law Violation Also
 The state laws were brought in be cause the act of 1910 provides that i a state limits campaign expenditure to less than the S10,0 named in tha act, then the state law shall apply t, campaigns within that commonwealth l AS it happens the Michigan statute limit campaign expenditures to fourtl of the yearly salary of the position sought for each primary or electiol , campaign. An aspirant for the Unite, States senate in this state, may there f fore, it was argued, spend only $1s7 on the primary and oan equal amour on the election campaign
 The law forbidding the use of tn mails to defraud was first used in cleo | ton cases by Mir. Daily in the Terr y Haute indictments. It was applied t the Newberry case as probably cover ing various letters sent to campaig . contributors, which letters, it wa . charged, were worded so as to deceiv the recipients as to the amounts al
 ready collected by the Newberr
 treasury.
 To meet a probable defense that Sen ator Newberry was ignorant of tn 0 amount of money and it's sources use d in his campaign, the government ir tends to use a statement issued by th , senator's managers shortly after tf i, first rumors of corruption began 1
 be heard. This statement showed re ceipt of s17S,S56 and expenditures
 s176,56S. Of the contributions, Joh I s. Newberry, the senator's brothe 1 was credited with s99,900; A. victt If Barnes of New York, president of u
 American Book company and a brotl !. erinlaw of the senator, with s25,00 If and Mrs. Henry B. Joy, the senator = sister with $10,000.
 The government will attempt
 show that all these persons conferrt
 with Truman H. Newberry while l
 was candidate, thus indicating h
 knowledge of the campaign. It al. q has a number of letters which wrote to politicians while the campaie
 was on. Frederick Cody, formerly . Detroit school teacher, bnf H:now
 New York and connectad aM3th Il ,r American Book compauy, ,xala6{ nams , as ona with whom the 461 f1 nfa col