Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-01-24
A Daily Bible Thought
HULL ON NEWBERRY

HULL ON NEWBERRY
THE action of the republicans on
! seating Senator Newberry
gives Cordell Hull, the new chair
man of the national democratic
committee chance, which he does
not neglect, to fire a broadside at
the opposition party as follows:
Senator Newberry's retention OF
his seat in the senate by the slen.
der majority of five Of his repub-
lican colleagues is for him only a
narrow escape from the penalty ot
expulsion, but it is distinct per-
sonal triumph for President Hard
ing who came to his rescue at the
crucial stage Of the case by let
ting the senate and everybody know
that President Harding holds Sen
ator Newberry in very high es-
teem." ........
This voluntary character en-
dorsement from the president OF
the United States, with all that 1t
implies in regard to the great pow
er and influence of that great Of
flee, cheered the embattled old
guard senator's and provided need
ed excuse for some western sena-
tors, including five protested sro-
~-cssives, to vote for Newberry on
the ground that by voting fo- him
they were only acting as the leader
of their party and the chief execu-
tive of the nation indicated that
he would act in the circumstances
And in this connection also, the
press has strongly limited at the
significance of the visit of Senator
Willis Of Ohio, to the White House
and the subsequent offering by him
of a resolution condemning the ex-
penditures in the Newberry cas-
but which, in effect, is an admis-
sion that the seat was purchased
Senator Newberry, accused open
" in the senate of occupying a pur'
chased seat and convicted in court
on the facts, retains that seat by
the gracious 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 exigency alone. The repub'
lican reactionaries and their shan
progressive adherents who voteo
for him voted to maintain the sys
TEN of political bargain and sale
long existing between the Ole
Guard leadership in party contro
and the predatory interests.
For three years the press OF thu
country and honest decent men ane
women everywhere have been "a
curing if seats in the United State:
senate are for sale and asserting
that the honor of the senate, Of .h'
state Of Michigan and Of the ma
ton was at stake in the Newberr,
case. Regardless of the shame an<
infamy in which they involve theii
party and this administration. tn:
republican majority after three
years of cool deliberation brazenl,
answered in the affirmative.
The nine republicans who vote'
against Newberry, all from thu
west, save one, were true to thei
constituents and to their persona
convictions.
The solidity with which thu
democrats voted against Senator
Newberry retaining seat gaines
through purchase and corruption
merits the plaudits and the graft
tude of the entire nation. It illus
trates perhaps as no other even
could illustrate that only the demo
cratic party can be depended upo,
to guard and uphold the public
morals, the purity of the ballot DO,
and the honor of the United State
senate and the American nation.
MEDICINE OF 1853