Republican farmer., 1920-02-06
DID NOT
 SCHEME EI FOR SEAT
Newberry Entered Cam paign At Instance of
 Others. DEFENSE SHOWS
 ITS ATTITUDE

the SO1lc1ldClOn or others ana mot in furtherance of a scheme to get a seat in the senate, said James O. Mur-
 fin, of Detroit, in outlining to the jury in United States District Court the attitude the defense will assume toward the charges of conspiracy and fraud for which 132 men are on trial.
 Judge Murfin explained the de- lenses view of the specific details of the offenses charged in the six counts | of the indictment, emphatically that 1 conspiracy is the essence of the l charges
 I It was pointed out that on the first f four counts, 'the gist of the charge is not fraud in the election, corruption in the election, or anything of that description, but that these respond ents are charged with conspiring to {, aid, abet, assist and encourage Tru- man H. Newberry to commit of fense, to wit: the offense of e0pend- ing more of his money than the law allows
 l It was further argued that under | the Michigan law, as long as expenses come within the eleven enumerated 1 classes in the statute, there is no limit as to the amount of money a commit tee of a candidates friends can spend | in his behalf"
 'It is my purpose" Judge Murfin 1 told the jurors, ito point out to you in exact detail everything that was done by anybody connected with this campaign in order that you may un- derstand it in it's infinite detail The campaign was unusually hot, and in i analysing and considering what these | respondents did, the atmosphere un- der which they did it should be con- sidered.
 1 '"Our country was at war; as the | campaign began to liven up we had l just passed our first year of participa- | tion and the situation was critical in the extreme. The fate of the civilized world was hanging in the balance with the last German drive at it's height, the channel ports threatened and the German advance armies within 30 miles of Paris.
 i ''The records will show that Michi- gan sent to this war 150,000 young men in the army, navy and marine corps; l they left behind them fathers, rela- lives and friends. Americanism and patriotic excitement were at the very crest.
 While there had been rumors in Michigan that Henry Ford would be a | candidate for the Senate, his candi- dacy was actually announced on June IA, 1918
 i Rightly or wrongly---and this is neither the time nor place to dis cuss it---there was a very general
 feeling that MT. Ford did not repre- sent the type of American who, at that critical juncture, should repre- seth his state in the United States Senate.
 | Rightly or wrongly, many people
 remembered his campaign against | military preparedness. Many peo- pie remembered his we'll meant, mis- guided efforts to bring about what
 now appears would have been a Ger
 man peace Many people were bit
 ter over the fact that he was not
 active in the war and that none of
 his family had become active in he
 war.
 "On the other hand, Commander
 Newberry had had an honorable rec
 ord in the Spanish war
 when, in the navy, he was under fire
 and actively participated in over coming a superior force. He had beer
 secretary of the navy in the cabinet l of that militant American, Theodore 1 Roosevelt.
 Within 4S hours after our country | threatened to enter the world war he volunteered, and, in the spring of 191f
 was commissioned a lieutenant com l
 mandant of the Third Navsl District at New York His brother and his two sons were also in military ser vice.
 This combination of circumstances aroused many a man in Michigan tC l the firm belief that it was his patri
 otic duty to do all in his power t;
 assure the election of Commando Newberry, and we expect to show nn 11-iX- al , prompted by pay, but by patriotism : that they were actuated not by ava rice, but by Am ericanisn.
 Getting into this campaign wa not of the choosing of Commando Newberry, and he entered with tn < utmost reluctance and only after re peated urging. AS early as August l1917, when it was generally under .I stood that the senior senator iron = Michigan, William Alden Smith, woul
 not be a candidate to succeed himself a group of representative citizens ha
 a conference on the senatorial situa tion. In addition to the governor o
 the state there attended a publisher
 a banker, a lawyer, soldier and tbusiness man.
 After canvassing the qualification 1 Of other distinguished Republicans, | was their composite judgment tha i they ShOulQ OrSdnlZe d I1ONSIl1eHA | A elect. Truman H. Newberry. Thei n desires were communicated to tn ? commander, (who, by the way, neve
 left his post of duty from the sprin of 1917 until the war was over). NJ Il Newberry expressed doubts as to th II propriety of his being a. candidat Il and after a brief examination an |, discussion he declined to be drafte o into the campaign and refused i
 consider the proposal further. I e December and January this mew; 'L ment continued to gather force ur y til finally the commander serious IT set out to determine whether it w. 'e his duty and would be desirable ft Us him to run
 'It was not until this had all hal of pened that he consented to the us k of his name. He stipulated that | Ii could not leave his duties; that |
 could not be active and that he coul
 not contribute one dollar to tn
 movement. This determination n,
 to be active or to contribute one eel