The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1922-01-20

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ing campaign for his party, The cor
rupt use of money in elections is to
be condemned in nationwide cam
paign this year, waged under Demo-
cratic auspices.
Barely Escaped Expulsion.
Senator Newberry's retention Of
his seat in the Senate by the slender
, majority of five OF his Republican col
leagues is for him only a narrow es-
cape from the penalty of expulsion,
but it is a distinct personal triumph
for President Harding, who came to
his rescue at the crucial stage of the
case by letting the Senate and every
body know that President Harding
holds Senator Newberry in very high
esteem'" said Hull.
This voluntary character indorse-
ment from the President of the Unit
ed States, with all that it implies in
regard to the great power and infiu-
ence of that great office, cheered the
embattled Old Guard Senators and
provided a needed excuse for some
Western Senators, including five pro-
fessed progressives, to vote for New
berry on the ground that by voting
for him they were only acting as the
leader of their party and the Chief
Executive of the nation indicated that
he would act in the circumstances.
And in this connection also the
press has strongly limited at the signif-
icance OF the visit of Senator Willis,
of Ohio, to the White House and the
subsequent offering by him of a reso-
! fhn nNnnnIitnrpS
! in the Newberry case, but which, in
effect, is an admission that the seat
was purchased.
Senator Newberry, accused openly
in the Senate of occupying a purchas-
ed seat and convicted in Court of the
facts. retains that seat by the graci-
Gus commentator of the President of
| the United States.
with a Republican majority of "a
in the Senate, the Republicans had no
motive for the retention of Senator
Newberry on grounds OF party ext
gency alone The Republican reaction
aries and their sham progressive ad-
herents who voted for him voted to
maintain the system of political bar
gain and sale long existing between
the Old Guard leadership in party con-
troll and the predatory interests.
For three years the press of the
country and honest, decent men and
women everywhere have been inquir-
ing if seats in the United States are
for sale and asserting that the honor
! of the Senate, of the State of Mlchi-
gan and of the nation was at stake
in the Newberrv case. Regardless OF
the shame and infamy in which they
involve their party and this Admins
tration. the Republican majority, al
ter three wears of cool deliberatlon.
brazenly answered in the affirmative
Republican Boilers Praised.
| "The nine Republicans who voted
against Newberry, all from the west
save one. were true to their constltu-
ents and to their personal convictions
! "The Solidity with which the DEM
ocrats voted against Senator New
| berry retaining a seat gained through
Epurchase and corruption merits the
nIaudits and the gratitude OF the en-
| tire nation. 1t illustrates. perhaps. as
no other event could illustrate tha'
only the Democratic party can be de
pended upon to guard and uphold the
| public morals, the purity of the ballot
box and the honor of the United States
Senate and the American nation.
Some of the strongest speeches
made against Newberry came IRON
the group of nine Republicans whit
voted against confirming his election
Kenyon. of Iowa, Republican o
progressive tendencies. whom the Olt
C,uard leaders recently tried to re
move from the Senate bv the bait of ;
Federal Judgeship proffered by Presl
dent Harding, made short speecl
containing most scathing indictmen
of the promoters of the ''whitewash
The Iowa Senator rose to super
heights of moral Indignation as h
condemned the surrender of the prin
. ciples of common honesty by his feI