Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-01-20
81, 500 per week, while the pay rolls
every week amounted to $4,000.
Seat in the Senate Bought Outright
by NeWberry.

every week AMOUNTED 10 900,VUV.
Seat in the Senate Bought Outright
by Newberry.
There is no use beating around the
bush in this case The bold fact is
that this seat in the senate was pur.
chased, and the price paid was at the
least 1858, 000-not so outright as in
the Lorimer case where gentlemen
seemed to desire to be purchased, but
in a more insidious and genteel man
ner.
Senator Frye, that great senator
from Maine, who presided over this
body so many years, said:
I know, and so do they referring
to the people,, that man of great
wealth who loves money easily grows
into the idea that money is God--om-
nipotent, omniscient-can do whatev-
er it pleases, and go whithersoever it
may. | know that he proceeds upon
the hypothesis that it can purchase
anything he seeks or anything his
heart may want. I know that he
names his price for every man and de-
clares that he can find a price that
will fit it,
That was not some wild, progress
i've senator from the West That was
the great senator from the conserva-
+:xvo a+o+o 20 NFoiyn enooI1;ro ~, or
election case
He further said
"Sir, if popular government is still
an experiment and shall become a
failure, the failure will be the legiti-
mate result of unfaithful citizenship.
If this republic shall be wrecked upon
the shoals, the rock upon which it
breaks shall be named corruption of
the ballot. The ballot box is the foun-
dation head of government of the
people, Whosoever defiles that des-
troys the whole.
The senate can engage in no holier
or more responsible duty than to de-
vote itself to work, however pain
full and disagreeable, that may result
in a warning "a terrible warning
which from the North to the South,
declaring, shall sound from the East
to the West, with no uncertain voice,
that corruption by money power if
the citizens at the polls or of the
legislature shall cease now"
Mr.. President, what is the defense
to this case? First, of course, that
Mr.. Newberry knew nothing about it.
We might as well have had phono-
graphic record in this room and every
time any question was asked let it
grind out, Mr. Newberry knew moth
ing about it." That is the one answer
that has been given to almost all Of
the pertinent inquiries.
Go out and tell that to the Amer.
lean people.
The second defense is that Mr..
Ford should have been defeated; that
it was proper to spend any amount
Of money to keep man out of this
chamber if he is dangerous man
in the view of senators. / had sup
posed that was question for the vot-
ers of a particular state. hold no
brief for Mr.. Ford. I do not know
him, and do not remember that l have
ever seen him, and / have not been
in accord with many things that he
has done. do not like the constant
attacks Of his paper upon the Jewish
race. could not agree with his ex-
IRENE pacifist views before the war.
can not reach the conclusion that
his occupying seat in this body, if
he had succeeded in the Michigan
election, is so fraught with danger to
the republic that men were justified
in breaking the laws on the theory
that the end justified the means He
has been a fairly successful man in
business. He has at least shown, on
the one railroad that he owns, that
railroad rates could be reduced. He
has had no controversies with labor
and has maintained high standards for
labor. 1t has been said here that he
is dangerous man to be in the SEN
ate, and possibly he is, and if senators
feel that way, they could, of course,
Justify themselves. There is some
egotism in the United States senate
in contending or believing that he
would lower the standards of this
body, for, great as we concede we are,
it is very probable, it is quite prob
able, that he is as great as some Of
US, though not so great as all.
The Danger of Open Violence and In
sidious Corruption.
This election, as Lord Coke said in
the Long case, lis tainted at its foun-
tain" Mr.. Justice Miller, of the SUI
preme court Of the United States, once
said:
The two great natural and histor
ical enemies Of all republics are open
violence and insidious corruption"
If the senate of the United States
is to justify the expediture Of hun
dreds of thousands of dollars to Sc
cure seat here, the rule Of the peo-
pie is gone; no man Of moderate
Il