Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-12-21
F0RD-NEWBERRY
ELECTION CASE
BEFORE SENATE
Senator Kenyon Attacks the
Methods Used in New
berry Campaign.

Washington. Dec. c1.-Declaring
the money spent in Senator New
berry's campaign for election to the
cenate from Michigan regardless of
any statutes. shows the entire election
t. he tainted" Senator Kenyon. Re
publican. Iowa. asserted in a speech
in the senate today or the Ford
Newberry election contest. that If that
body voted to seat the Michigan sena-
Tor st would be undermining the
foundations OF this government The
rule of the people is gone. Senator
Kenyon said. il the senate '.justiies
the expenditure Of hundreds Of thou
sands Of dollars to secure a seat here
While the federal act limiting CAM
paign expenditures has been declared
unconstitutional by the supreme court
since the Newberry campaign, the
that time, and so he added I'VE find
the common laws. the federals statute
and the state statutes all violated, the
latter openly, VIGOROUSLY so.
Expenditure of S263. 900.
The record shows an expenditure
"of at beast s263,00o.' Senator Ken
.r>n said. adding that tho plain in
ference from the testimony is that a
much larger sum was expended
IF the record showed the expendi-
lure of a million, dollars for Mr..
Newberry.' Senator Kenyon con
tinued. Il believe The senate still
would seat him. Blu no senator who
will study his cas- with open mind
and forget that he is a member OF
any political party can do other
wise than arrives at the conclusion
Hagrantly violated; that such sums of
none were spent in the campaign
as to shock public conscience and
thai the election is tainted and frau
dulent.
"The social lobby has been active
in this case-and the social lobby is
effective. No argument here is go
ing TO change any votes. The matter
Is pushed at a time when the country
can know but little about it. IT Mr.:
Newberry were a Democrat. he would
he promptly voted out under this rec
ord. Some Ct the would
be found stoutly defending him. 1t Is
unfortunate that o any question of
public morality there should be a d.
v!ding line of politics in the chamber.
No Test.
II deny that the Newberry case is
any test Of Republicanis1n. deny
that the seven million majority of the
Republican party last fall was a vim
,9ication CT any such methods. ], deny
that the day will ever come when
Jorimerism and Stephensonism and
Newberryism will be a test of Re
publicanism. The day has not yet
arrived when a few gentlemen. in the
termine what Republicanism Is. II
so, God save the Republican party
The Iowa senator declared it was
nonsense to say that enato New
berry knew nothing about the cam
paign." adding that the record fairly
teemed with evidence showing that
Mr.. Newberry was the active mana
cor &horoof and the ending genius.
The people Of the country do not
endorse the large expenditure Of
money in campaigns. Last year the
Republicans did not dare to nominate
either General Wood or Governor
Iowden because Of the enormous ex-
the contributing causes to the nomi-
nation of Senator Harding was the
clean account sheet that he showed
in his campaign.
"A large part Of the press Of the
campaign. At least $4,000 was
spent for publicity purposes. Two
hundred and n papers were secured.
The record teens with mystery.
Original books. records and nearly all
the checks which would have shown
the transactions were destroyed. lost
or stolen. Valuable records kept in
a barn were stolen at the opportune
time: the record abounds in nasty
specimens of ~corrupting influence.
false returns were made to county
agents. There was a doctored treas
urer's report. Witnesses have diap-
peared. Newberry himself did not
come before the committee and ex-
plain the charges. especially the re-
port which he filed under the law
with the secretary of the senate.
"a Smoke Screen"
"Mr. Ford is brought in as a smoke
screen in the matter. Ford will not
secure this seat. If Ford ever said
the things that have been charged he
said about the American soldiers he
should not have a seat in this body.
] want to know the truth about this
before l form an opinion. as I doubt
IF he ever said h things that have
s,een charged. The president Of the
United States did not evidently share
in the belief CT many Republicans that
Mr.. Ford was such a dangerous per
son, BECAUSE he spent a very pleasant
few days in camping with him a few
months ago.
Irealize that the stage is com.
pletely set for this performance; thai
there will be very few votes on thi:
side of the chamber against Newberr5