Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-11-24
SENATOR WATSON IN CLASH
WITH J. SHARP WILLIAMS
BY CONDO

is no bribery if there was no brib-
cry nobody bought his seat; the ad-
mission puts the case out of court
except for mere oratorical purposes
and campaign use. 1 mean to let
the country know that there is not
particle of testimony here that Tru-
man H. Newberry bought his seat
or had it bought for him."
League of Nations
The issue in the Michigan cam
paign was the same as that in his
own campaign, Senator Watson de-
clared-the League of Nations.
1--WE can't start up a rabbit on
this side and chase him for Is min
utes but what we find him running
into the hole of the League of Ma
lions. Well, the rabbit may go in
but we are not going in!'
Henry Ford ran for the senate, Sem
ator Watson said, because President
Wilson wanted a vote for the League
of Nations and conscripted him. He
wanted Newberry defeated because
Newberry would vote against the
league. "That," he declared, "is the
real secret Of the mighty effort made
to overcome the normal Republican
majority in Michigan and that is the
real secret of the hatred against
.Newberry shown on this floor by
leftover Wilsonites. There are a
few of them left, but there will be
fewer the next time the people get
whack at them"
Henry Ford, Senator Watson said,
is man who has made a wonder
~ 10 ,lot ir1or
of dollars and, if he were in Wall
street he would feel the thunder.
and lightning" of the senator from
Alabama (Mr. Heflin), at least once
week.
''He is reported to have said that
he could not read" the senator con-
tinued, land yet he is editing a pa
per devoted to war on the Jewish
race, not upon some single individual,
but upon the whole race, the race
that produced Moses, Solomon, Da-
vid, Gambetta, Disraeli, Sir Moses
Montefiori and Jesus Christ"
Ford and Wilson
The Georgia senator next took up
the relations between Mr.. Ford and
former President Wilson. did not
Ford give $4,000 to the Wilson cam
paign in 1852" he asked, land at
the personal request Of Mr.. Tumul-
ty? 1t has been so/stated in print
he said, and he asked anyone to
deny it. did that liberal gift have
anything to do with keeping Henry
Ford's son out of the army?" He
asked: What else did Henry Ford
get out of the Wilson administra-
ton? The Ford Motor company,
according to war department rec
ords, received from the Wilson adj
ministration $249, 1000 for tools which
were never delivered. I suppose he
has them yet; he also has the money,
unless he spent it on this election"
Other items in the published state
ment of war department payments to
the Ford company were read and
Senator Watson went on to divulge
facts about the expenditures by the
federal government on the Grand
Rapids trial. The records of the de-
partment of justice show, he de-
clared, that Mitchell Palmer, as at
torney general, paid $4,000 fees for
extra lawyers.
"If> there had been plain and
simple case against NeWberry, why
could not the attorney general and
his assistants. or the district attor-
ney and his assistants, conduct the
case?" he asked. The department,
of Justice, Senator Watson alleged
also sent to Michigan more than 100
detectives to rake the state with a
comb to find evidence of crimfnality
on the part of Newberry and his
workers. If they found it, it was
not in the record, he declared. "Talk
about the loss Of papers," he went
on, 1--WE heard a great deal about
the loss of papers. Who lost the
papers from Mitchell Palmer's de-
partment OF justice as to the expense
accounts of these 100 detectives dur
ing the months they were combinS
Michigan. It is not in the depart
ment of justice. How were these
detectives paid? By check? If so.
where are the checks? Was there
a stub for each check? If so, where
is the stub? Was there an expense
account? If so, what went with it?
When a government loses it's rec
ords, it seems to me, there is some
thing more mysterious about 1T than
when an individual loses one. And
I do not think it lies in the mouth
of the government to be making
criminal charges against NeWperry
and his friends when it has paid
out so much of the peoples money
without authority"
Newberry's Methods
Taking up the methods used in
the, Newberry campaign, the sena-
tor drew a parallel between them
and those used to sell Liberty bonds.
How did we float the bonds?" he de-
manded. Were not newspaper pages
used for advertising? Were not
speakers hired; were not commits
sions paid? The bonds were sold by
publicity, Just such as was used in