Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-02-03
NEWbERRY FORCES LAUNCHED |RGy, OF spEND|NG'
Eate's Attorney Describes How Michigan Was Flooded With Money AFCELLED STATE OUT AMONG FIELD AGENTS ,ent More Money Every 48 Hours Than Law Allowed for Entire
 Campaign,' Says Prose-
 cutOr

Grand Rapids, Mich, Feb. 2.-An
 rtline of what the government eX-
 ects to prove against Senator T. H
 ewberry and his 123 associates.
 harged with conspiracy in ~connec-
 on with 1917 senatorial campaign,
 las stated in federal district court
 Dday by Frank c. Daley, special as-
 istant attorney general.
 When adjournment came he was
 bout tWo-thirds through his out ire. As soon as he finishes tomor-
 low, James 0. Murfin, counsel for senator Newberry, will reply.
 Martin w. Littleton of counsel for
 he defense, interrupted MT. Daley few times with objections and At the close of the session asked the court to order government agents to "cease sitting among the de- fendants and listening to their whispered conversation"
 Judge c. w. Sessions announced that hereafter the front seats would be reserved for defendants and that others would have to find places aft er the men on trial had selected places. He would not issue an or der against the presence of. secret service men who MT. Littleton said were mot invited to sit among the defendants"
 The defense by objections, pre- vented Mr. Daley from reading what he said was a copy of telegram sent from Detroit to MT. Newberry when. the latter was in New York on naval duty. The prosecutor para phrazed the message and said the evidence would prove it had been l sent
 MT. Daley stressed the money which the government alleges was spent in violation of the law limit ing campaign expenses. He said Milton Oakman was hired as manager lof the Detroit campaign at a stag ygering salary" amounting to thou sands of dollars" He charged that when the campaign started the New berry organization launched into an orgy of spending and spoke of great heaps. and piles of currency which he said were visible at the Detroit and Grand Rapids headquarters.
 The evidence will show" he shouted, "that this organization spent more money an average every AS hours than the laws of the Unit cd States permit for an entire cam paign. It will show that the de- fendants boasteA they would make Truman H. Newberry the best man in Michigan"
 The prosecutor used big map of Michigan to illustrate "the way in whlch the state was parcelled out among field agents" and also to snow the jury which defendants came rom each county in the state.
 Begun in 1917.
 The fraudulent election consniracv which the government charge 8 against United States Senator New Derry ana his co-defendants, had it's inception in New York in 1917, ac- co,rdlng to the opening statement wnch Frank c, Daley, assistant at- ss1rney general, made to the jury in unlted States district court here to- oay. He named Senator Newberry ana Frederick Cody, whom he des- 1a I,lDed "as legislative, agent for .arge corporations, particularly the american Telephone and Telegraph company, and the American Book company" as the men who made the pre1lmlnary arrangements. He added: |, Ihey had determined to purchase .ne United States senatorship in michigan for Mir. Newberry."
 !. MT. Daley told the jury that the senator was then on "patriotic work" in New York City as a lieu tenant commander in. the navy, add lng. that the American Brick com ppahy was largely controlled by the barnes family to which MT. New. perry was related by marriage"
 MT Daley said that Cody was commissioned to hire a manager for sue campaign and that J. G. Hayden, nnashington correspondent of the Detroit News, was offered $500 a oama Onln, but refused the position be- oaose me did not want that kind of
 Jup, MT. Daley said solicitation ia.4 r, hayden ceased suddenly after the ia ta'.er had advised MT. Newberry "not conduct barrel campaign"
 MT. Daley then shifted the scene a.,. sU Detrolt where he said in Febru "a aay' there was conference of Michi- n,n ,, pvuliaans known as Cody aen. sa9n This conference, he said, Se.d Sseiected Paul H. King, one of the paign '.o
 .n Publicity Campaign.
 MT. ;Durlng the campaign" said MT. nalley, "Mr King visited practically hrlouysa ly county in Michigan. He .em- a.oyeu many general agents and paid ou1 T, vast sum of money"
 The prosecutor then sketched the pupnclty campaign of the Newberry ssaas,sannization, sa,sa charging that they no,, nougnt advertising space lin "every tewtspaper statsp and magazine in the t;ons laos' He named several publica- anno., ,ln which he said advertising nash, Italian, and Hungarian news pTapers, "and some published in the german language"
 ina e n; tnen turned to the use of nov