The daily morning oasis., 1919-06-06
CHANcEFOR C. .O.P.
To Do A GOOD
JOB OF HOUSE
CLEANING

Washington, D. C. June 5th.-The
election of Senator" Truman H. New
berry, of Michigan, contested by
Henry Ford, will give the Republican
majority of the upper house of the
new Congress an opportunity to show
the nation how much publication has
been accomplished in that party since
it relinquished control eight years
ago. Because of the slender Re
publican majority in the Senate-two
there is little doubt in Washington
as to the ultimate outcome of the af-
fair. Public insistence, however, is
likely to force complete investiga-
tion of the huge campaign fund that
the Newberry managers admit hav-
ing expended. .-..
Apparently cheerless and profit
less task will confront the Republican
controlled Senate Comittee on Privi-
leges and Elections. If Newberry
should be ousted the majority's con-
troll would hang on one vote for some
time, and that one might not "stand
hitched." Moreover, several of the
Republican Senators publicly or pri-
vately have been outspoken in their
denunciation of the slush-fund meth
DDS in Michigan last year.
'If this enormous expenditure of
money in senatorial campaigns is to
go unchallenged by Congress, then a
poor man has no chance ever to Sc
cure a seat in this body and simply
the rich can purchase a seat here"
said Senator Kenyon, of Iowa, on the
floor of the Senate when he heard the
report that $176,568.0S was admitted
to have been spent in the Newberry
priary campaign in which ex-Gover-
nor Chase S. Osborn and Henry Ford
were contestants. {. Of this amount,
$4,000 was furnished by John s..
Newberry, brother, presumably
without Senator Newberry's "know-
ledge or consent" to quote his own
words relative to this campaign fund.
Asked Newberry to Quit
L. D. Dickinson, Republican, who
was reelected Lieutenant Governor in
the same campaign, called upon New
berry to withdraw from this cam
paign and save the everlasting dis
grace to the party and the State from
a pollution that would stay for years.
Mr.. Newberry did not withdraw, this
being another case of not with my
knowledge or consent 80. go.
eff Mr.. Newberry should be elect
ed, Michigan will hive an election
scandal worse than the Lorimer scan
dal in Illinois or the Stephenson scan-
dal in Wisconsin. If this is to be the
policy permitted in Michigan, then
but millionaires, or men with million
aire friends who will pay the bills,
need apply for the office of Cover
nor or United States Senator, for
only they can pay the price," This
was the summing up of the situation
by Merlin Wiley, Republican member
of the Michigan legislature and man
ager of the Osborn campaign, after
a detailed indictment that pointed out
the obviously huge expenditures ne
cessitated by the Newberry army's
scale operations.
The trial of William Lorimer that
finally was followed back to certain
corporate interests of Chicago was
far less clearly marked than that Of
Truman H. Newberry, who has two
hurdles to leap. The first, the Fed
eral law, says regarding campaign
expenditures:
'No candidate for Senator shall
give, contribute, expend, use or prom
Use, or cause to be given, contribut-
ed, expended, used or promised in
procuring his nomination and election
any sum in the aggregate in excess
of the amount which he may lawfully
give, contribute, expend, or promise
under the laws of the state in which
he resides: Provided, That no can
didate for Senator of the United
States shall give, contribute, expend,
use, or promise any sum in the ag-
ersgats exceeding $4,000 In any