The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1920-05-28
THE OWOSSO TIMES
EDMUND o. DEWEY. PROP.
OWOssO, MICH. MAY 2S, 1920.
VENGEANCE Is Not Needed.
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through central or party committee
would be held legal.
Where Mr.. Newberry and his fol-
lowers made their mistake, as the
law was first interpreted in the trial,
was first in the excessive use of mon
ey, second in letting the candidate
know what was being spent.
Ford and Newberry
/ had no sympathy with Mr.. New
berry as a candidate for the senate.
! felt that Mr.. Ford was misunder-
stood and still feel he is misunder-
stood. l felt that with all the mil
lions involved in contracts that had to
do with war machinery, Mr.. Ford
would have been of great help to the
government. | was so earnest in this
belief that / wrote much if not most
of the campaign reading sent out in
the campaign for him. Perhaps that
is what kept him from being elected
or it may have helped reduce the
more than one hundrde thousand re-
publican majority that was against
him in the state and had to be bat
tered down. Be that as it may, had
little sympathy for Mr.. Newberry as
a andidate-although not word was
uttered against him-and noe for the
campaign put up by his managers
against Mr.. Ford.
But have sympathy for Mr.. New
berry in his present situation. At
heart he is not a criminal. So SUR
was he that he was within the law
that his attorneys opened up for the
jury all of his correspondence and all
of his acts-and that was what con-
victed him. To want to beat man
for the senate is one thing-to want
to put him in Jail is an entirely differ
ent matter.
The trial will have none other than
a wholesome effect in Michigan and
other states. 1t teaches all that cleo
ton laws are not to be trifled with.
1t should means the same thing for
the newspapers, for it is a notorious
fact that some of the papers which
shrieked the loudest against Newber-
ry expenditures got the largest
amounts from the Newberry fund for
advertising.
Stood by His Men
/ was over to Grand Rapids while
the trial was on and talked with
some of the men who had been his
supporters during the senatorial cam
,paign, some were on trial, some were
not.
l was very forcefully impressed
with the loyal all showed for Mr.. New
berry in his time of trouble.
/ had talked with some of them
during the senatorial campaign. Their
feeling of warmth for him then was
mild as compared with the feeling at
the trial.
Newberry proved himself most
democratic and was loyal himself to
every last man of them.
There were nearly hundred of the
indicted men whose daily efforts were
needed for the support of their fami- |
lies. On going to Grand Rapids their |
incomes stopped as a rule and many
would have been hard pinched but |
for the thoughtfulness of Mr.. New
berry. At the trial he proved himself |
game, good sport and very human |
and humane.
In the first place he saw that every |
man had the best of accommodation |
that Grand Rapids afforded. Then he |
told those who wished to bring their |
wives their expenses would be pro-
vided for.
Then he had the financial condition
of all looked into, and those who need
ed an income were paid weekly sal
aries. BY the time the expense was
totalled, it cam to about $4,000 a day
outsid of his lawyers fees.
Vengeance Not Needed
When one who has looked on him
as cold and has been rather agains,
him hears of these things, and he gets
the details of some of the kindly acts,
not scurrying to save himself. but
standing firm protect every last
man who had stood by him, finally
winding up with his own conciction
and saving most of them, one cannot
help but feel that society does not
need the imprisonment of a man of
that character to protect itself, that
Justice is not shrieking aloud to have
vengeance heaped on his head.