Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-02-03
CHARGES NEWBERRY FORCES LAUNCHED
 ORGY OF SPENDING
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Continued From Page D. oa were changed so as to make the pie lures applicable to the propaganda i for which they were intended. MT Phillips also employed q moving pie ' ture company to take 125 feet of new film.
 ' Mr. Newberry posed in various attitudes in the new film. He went ! to a battleship located on dryland in New York park and stood on the bridge of the ship and turned slow 1 ly to face the audience while the camera caught him in this attitude
 "He next played that he was pay 1 ing a visit of inspection to this battleship.
 "To divert attention from the fact that the film was g Newberry adver- i tisement and render it more mis- leading, the film terminated with an appeal for enlistments in the navy"
 Sought T. R.'s Aid. Dr. Daley said the if I'm was dis tributed in Michigan, advertised by Newberry agents posing as theatn- cal advance men but that patrons of the moving picture houses over the state paid the regular price of admission to see this film" The prosecutor read telegram which he said was sent in September 1918. to Colonel Theodore Roosevelt at Oyster Bay, bidding for his ap- proval of the Newberry candidacy. He said this telegram was signed "Newberry Volunteer committee, Charles A. Floyd, secretary"
 The telegram stated that $176,00O had been contributed to the cam paign by many subscribers, but, ac- cording to the prosecutor, the cam paign statement of the committee showed that five contributors alone gave $169,9O0, and named John 5. Newberry, defendant and brother of the senator, Mrs. Henry B. Joy, sister and her husband, and Victor Barnes and Lyman B. Smith, of the American Book company. How the government charges the money was scattered was described in detail by MT. Bailey. He said it went for automobiles and halls, workers at the polls, votes, banquets, liquor, cigars and flowers. Ii e charged that some custodians of money used it to pay personal debts. There was also, he said, a system of gratuities. A $50 bill was nlaced in a book so that it could be found by one citizen and a banker was given $500 for his influence, the prosecutor charged.
 "They employed men to work par ticulariv among railroad unions" said MT. Daley "They paid the editor of railroad magazine for articles in the magazine and gave him additional money to attend meetings of the union over the state"
 He said special agents were hired to work among the Indians, lumber. jacks, negroes, factory workers and sailors on the Great Lakes. "They ingratiated themselves into the churches wherever possible by the use of money" continued MT. Daley. He said Senator Newberry made personal subscription to 3 church, to further his candidacy.
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 "The defendants swasted great deal. of money in an attempt to control the nomination of the op- pCsite praty," he. continued. "They arrived at the conclusion that the defendant, James w. Helme, would be suitable opponent to MT. New berry in the election and hired the defendant, William Nickel to in duce MT. He1me to become a candi- date for the nomination of United States senator on the del locrat;', ticket"
 MT. Daley charged that Nickel was later told by Charles Floyd and Samuel O'Dell. defendant, had paid Helme s2.000 to enter the race.
 MT. Daley said the Newbe Try or ganization got up the petit ons by which Mr. Helme's name was placed on the democratic ticket, managed his campaign and "paid Helme a weekly salary
 i "While these things were trans piring in Michigan, there was con stant communication with MT. New berry in New York;" said Mir. Dailev. 1 "Every month Cody made trips into Michigan and while in New York spent considerable time in the of- flee of Mr. Newberrs,. Emory Hop kins King. Allen A. Tcmpleton, Phil lips, Floyd, Roger Andrews and oth- CTS visited New York to confer with Cody and Newberry.'
 MT. Daley asserted that on the day when the report of receipts and expenditures was to be filed, the books failed to balance by about | $4O,O0O and that "Blair began to scramble to procure the money and succeeded in getting it within few davs."
 He said the evidence would show that neither the report of the com mittee nor their books, gave a true account of the receipts and expendi lures. that county chairman and sec l retaries which received large sums of money, "were asked to make re- ports showing they received from $15O to $20O," and that no mention was made of the amounts "expended in behalf of James w. Helme."