Arizona republican., 1922-01-08
townsend SAYS.
POL|T|CALFOES.
FORCE FIGHT IN
NEWBERRY CASE
Michigan Senator Makes
Dramatic Plea in Defense
of Accused Colleagues
Contested Seat.
[RepublIcan A. P. Leased WIre1

WASHINGTON, Jan. T. Senate
debate on the Newberry case came
to a dramatic climax today when
Senator Townsend of Michigan,
speaking in behalf Of his colleague,
declared certain interests had threat
ened his political life if he voted to
sustain the right of Senator New
berry to his seat over the contest
initiated by Henry Ford.
Senator Townsend declared that
if he consulted only his political fu-
ture he might be tempted to be silent
on the question of the Ford -Newberry
contest. But he declared he could
not and would not take the easier
path, for in so doing he would stultify
himself AMI do violence to his own
conscience and courage.
Time and again he was interrupted
as he attacked the enemies of New
berry, who, he said, were trying to
deprive him Of his seat out of ami
mostly and hatred" He characterized
Henry Ford as a pacifist who had
been thrown into the political ring
by President Wilson, and asserted
that while too much money had been
spent in the Michigan campaign for
Newberry's good, the chance of no
poor man was hurt, because all three
candidates were millionaires.
Senator Townsend announced that
his colleague would appear Monday
to speak for himself ready to submit
to reasonable questioning.
Il do not doubt" he declared, "that
this good man who is this moment
a senator would give every dollar
he has if he had never entered the
campaign. He has suffered the tor
lures of hell; he has been villified
and accused and blamed, and its all
the worse, because / am convinced
its political job"
Turning to the Democratic side, he
declared that there must have been
time when some of them, like New
berry, had suffered from the foolish
acts of their friends.
Senator Tramwell Democrat Flor
ida engaged in exchanges with Mr.
Townsend and into these colloquies
entered Senator Spencer, Republican
Missouri, who is leading the fight for
Newberry, and Senator Walsh, Dem
ocrat, Montana, a strong opponent,
Senators Spencer and Walsh spared
frequently over legal phases of the
Newberry case.
Senator Trammell later spoke for
80 minutes in denunciation of the
claims for retention by Mr.. Newberry
of his seat.
Discussing expenditures in the
Michigan primary, Mr.. Trammell as
| serted that throughout the court and
committee records alike ran the
thread Of money. money from begin
ming to end.
This money was not used" he con-
tinued, ''for legitimate purposes but
to do the very things forbidden by the
Michigan statutes"
The galleries were crowded and
among the on-lookers were Senator
Newberry's two sons while in an
other gallery sat Alfred Lucking,
Henry Ford's counsel. Senator Town
send referred to the presence of Mr..
Ford's paid agent" in his speech and
in that connection mentioned ref
erence by Senator Kenyon, Repub-
lican, Iowa, in a recent attack on
Newberry, to the workings of $50
cial lobby" The Michigan senator
declared he knew nothing OF such a
force but added that he would rather
be subjected to the influences of
friendship than to that OF bitter
partisanship and contemplate under
| hand dealing"
Mr.. Townsend then told the senate
| that he had seen Senators talking
with the paid agent" of Mr.. Ford in
the senate lobby.