Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-02-04
NEWSPAPERMEN ARE
 FIRST WITNESSES AT
 TRIAL OF NEWBERRY '
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 limit as to the amount of money a committee of a candidates friends can spend in his behalf"
 "1t is my purpose" Judge Murfin i told the jurors, "to point out to you in exact detail everything that was done by anybody connected with this campaign in order that you may understand it in it's infinite de- tail The campaign was unusually hot, and in analysing and consider ing what these respondents did, the atmosphere under which they did it should be considered. j
 "Our country was at war; as the campaign began to liven up we had just passed our first year of partici. patton and the situation was criti- cal in the extreme. Fate in the civilized world was hanging in the balance with the German drive atl it's height, the channel ports threatened and the German advance armies within 30 miles of Paris.
 Ford Not The Man.
 "The records will show that Michi- men in the army, navy and marine corps; they left behind them fath- CTS, relatives and friends. American ism and patriotic excitement were at their 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 14, 1918.
 "Rightly or wrongly-and this is neither the time nor the place to discuss it-there was very general feeling that MT. Ford did not repre- sent the type of American, who, at the critical juncture, should repre- sent his state in the United States senate.
 Rightly or wrongly, many people remembered his campaign against military preparedness. Many people remembered his well-meant misguid- ed efforts to bring about what now appears would have been German peace. Many people were bitter over the fact that he was not active in the war and that none of his family had : become active in the war.
 On the other hand, Commander Newberry had had an honorable rec when in the navy he was under fire and actively participated in over coming superior force. He had , been secretary of the navy in the cabinet of that militant American, Theodore Roosevelt.
 "Within 48 hours after our coun- ! try threatened to enter the world war, he volunteered and, in the spring of 1917, was commissioned 6 lieutenant commander and made aide to the commandant of the Third naval district at New York. His brothers and two sons were also in military service.
 "This combination of circum- stances reused many a man in Michi- gan to the belief that it was his patriotic duty to do all in his power ss to assure the selection of Comman- der Newberry, and we expect to con- clusively show that we were prompt , ed not by pay, but by patriotism that they were actuated not by avarice, but by Americanism. "Getting into this campaign was not of the choosing of Commander z Newberry and he entered with the n utmost reluctance and only after re- peated urging. As early as August stood that the senior senator from Michigan, William Alden Smith would not be a candidate to suc- ceed himself, group of representa- tive citizens had a conference on z the senatorial situation. In addi- ] ton to the governor of the state, a there attended publisher, banker lawyer, a soldier and a business '' man.
 Selected Newberry.
 "After canvassing the qualifica- tions of other distinguished republi- cans it was their composite judgment { that they should organize move ment to elect Truman H. Newberry s Their desires were communicated t. , the commander (who, by the way never left his post of duty from the ' spring of 1917 until the war was over). Mr. Newberry expressed doubts as to the propriety of his being a candidate and after brief examination and discussion, he de clined to be drafted into the cam, paign and refused to further con- sider the proposal. In December and January this movement contin' ued to gather force until finally the commander seriously set out to de. termine whether it was his duty and would be desirable for him to run.
 "It was not until this had all hap pened that he consented to the uss 
 could not leave his duties :that he } could not be active and that he could not contribute one dollar this movement. This determination not to be active nor to contribute one cent was religiously adhered tt byA him from the beginning to the end and the proof will positi 7ely show that not one dollar of his money was ever handled by anyone
 The organization that was subse ouently built up under the super vision of Mr Paul H. King. was un doubtedlv the most perfect politica organizations ever put together With a few conspicuous executions every township, hamlet and city II the state was organized. The cenf \ mander was running against the Les \ advertised man in America. It wa \ indispensable necessary. in the judg ment of these respondents in prin N cipal charge of the campaign the X his qualifications be given the wid est publicity. A general advertisin' campaign of newspapers. circulars pamphlets, and similar devices wa organized, in charge of the mos skillful publicity men who could b \ found-who did their work thorough ily and with absolute honesty"