The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-03
HAD NO PLAN TO GET SEAT
 IN SENATE
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It was further argued that under the Michigan law, as long as expenses come within the eleven enum erated classes in the statute, there is no limit as to the amount of money commit tee of a candidates friends can spend in his behalf.'
 ''It is my purpose" Judge Murf1n 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 its infinite detail. The campaign was unusually hot, and in analysing and considering what these respondents did, the atmosphere un- der which they did 1t should be con- sidered.
 Our country was at war; as the campaign began to liven up we had ''just passed our first year of participa- ton and the situation was critical in the extreme. The fate of the civilized i 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.
 '"The records will show that Michi- gan sent to this war 150,O00 young men in the army, navy and marine corps; they left behind them fathers, rela- . 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 l If, 1918.
 1 'Rightly or wrongly---and this is neither the time nor place to dis cuss it---there was a very general hot NF~ nt sent the type of American who, at that critical juncture, should repre- setn his state in the United States l Senate.
 1 Rightly or wrongly, many people | rem embered his campaign against military preparedness. Many, peo- 1 pie remembered his well meant, n1is- l guided efforts to bring about what 1 now appears would have been g. Ger man peace. Many people were bit 1 ter over the fact that he was not | active in the war and that none of | his family had become active in the l war.
 | "On the other hand, ConsmandeI Newberry had had an honorable rec ord in the Spanish-American war 1 when, in the navy, he was under dre l and actively participated in over l coming a superior force. He had beer secretary of the navy in the cabine i of that militant American, Theodore 1 Roosevelt.
 within AS hours after our country threatened to enter the world war he volunteered, and, in the spring of 1917 was commissioned a lieutenant com mander and made aide to the com. mandant of the Third NavEl District at New York. His brother and his two sons were also in military ser vice.
 This combination of circumstance! aroused many a man in Michigan tc the firm belief that it was his patri
 otic duty to do all in his power tt assure the election of Commandel Newberry, and we expect to show conclusively that they were no prompted by pay, but by patriot otism--- that they were actuated not by ava rice, but by Arnericanism-
 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 1917, when it was generally under stood that the senior senator iron Michigan, William Alden Smith, woul' , not be candidate to succeed himself a group of representative citizens hat
 
 ton. In addition to the governor 0 the state there attended a publisher a banker, a lawyer, a soldier and business man.
 After canvassing the qualification
 of other distinguished Republicans,
 was their composite judgment tha
 they should organize a movement t
 elect Truman H. Newberry. Thei
 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). MT Newberry expressed doubts as to tn
 propriety of his being a candidat
 and after a brief examination ant
 discussion he declined to be drafted
 into the campaign and refused t
 consider the proposal further. Il December and January this mawa
 ment continued to gather force un
 til finally the commander seriousl.
 set out to determine whether it wa
 his duty and would be desirable fo
 him to run.
 "It was not until this had all hap pened that he consented to the us of his name. He stipulated that h
 could not leave his duties: that h , could not be active and that he cou1 not contribute one dollar to thi movement. This determination no to be active or to contribute one cen was religiously adhered to by hin from the beginning to the end, an the proof will positively show tha ; not one dollar of his money was eve 7 handled by any one.
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