New-York tribune., 1922-11-20
Letter to the Governor of
Michigan Defends His
Record and Excoriates
Foes Who Hound Him
Friends See Clew
To Plans I'm Note
Act ForestalIs Almost
Certain Expulsion by the
Senate, is Capital View

By Carter Field

| WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.--Trus
man H. Newberry will not be a
member of the United States Senate
! when that body convenes in the gpe-
cial session of Congress at noGn to-
morrow. He resigned, 70 take effect
! Immediately, in lettef dated yes
! terday.
Vice-President Calvin Coolidge, as
! president of the Senate, received
notice of this from Senator New
berry early tonight, together with
copy of the letter of resignation Mr..
Newberry had sent Governor Alex
ander j. Groesbeck of Michigan.
| Newberry's resignation has been
virtually assured ever since the cleo
tion early this month. Early on
Election Night the returns showed
clearly that the next Senate would
have more than majority of men
who would vote to expel him, some
cf them, indeed, having made
pledges during their campaigns that
they would SO vote.
Own Colleague Defeated
One of the most disturbing of these
elections to Senator Newberry was in
his own State of Michigan. where Sena-
tor Townsend, who had supported min,
Loyalty, went down to defeat-the first
time since the Republican, party vas
/ organized in 1855 that Michigan had
sent Democrat to the United States
Senate.
Senator Newberry's letter Of resiena-
| tion contains a sharp attack ON ths
bitter political persecution organized
against him by friends of Woodrow
wilson the moment he defeated Henry
Ford in the Republican primary in
1918. His letter closes with a note of
thankfuiness that his presence in the
Senate aided in keeping the United
states out of the League of Nations"
Some of Mr.. Newberry's friends had
hoped that he would be a candidate
to succeed himself, at the next elec-
| tion Or at a special election. The last
line of his letter of resignation gives
a possible hint of this. 1t was said
fere tonight, however, by some of his
friends that he was "all through with
Il pOllJLCS.
Text of Resignation
Following is the text of his letter Of
resignation and of his letter TO Vice
President Coolidge:
Detroit, Mich, Nov. II. 1922,
Hon. Alex j. Groesbeckg Governor Of
Michigan, Lansing, Mich.
Sir: / tender herewith nv resie.
nation as United States Senator from
Michigan, to take immediate effect.
l am impelled to take this action
/ because, at the recent election, not.
withstanding his long and faithful
public service and his strict adher-
i ence to the basic principles of con-
sstructlve Republicanism which | hold
| in common with him, Senator Town
send was defeated. While this fail
ure to re,elect him may have been
brought about, IN part, by over four
/ years OF continuous propaganda of
misrepresentation and untruth n
fair analysis of the vote in Michigan
and other states where friends and
| political enemies alike have suffered
defeat will demonstrate that gem
erai feeling of unrest was mainly re-
/ sponsible therefor.
This situation renders futile further
service by me in the United States
Senate, in which | nave consistently
supported the progressive policies of
! president Harding's Administration.
4 MY work there has been and would
continue to be hampered by partisan
political persecution, and I, there
fore, cheerfully return my commits
sion to the people from whom /
received it.
/ Voices Gratitude to Friends
| desire to record an expression OF
my gratitude for the splendid friend
fxf esal L. - -
who have endured with me during
the last four years experiences un-
paralleied in the political history of
4 the country. BY direction of the
Democratic Administration these be-
gan Immediately upon my nomina-
tion, by proceedings before q spe-
cially selected grand jury, sitting
in another state, which, by a vote
of sixteen to one, completely ex-
onerated those who had conducted
my campaign. Then followed my
4 election with every issue which hos s
since been raised clearly before the
1 electorate of the state. recount
was demanded and after thorough
and painstaking review of the bal
lots by the United States Senate I
was found to have received q sab.
stantial majority.
While this was in progress frwaa
subjected, with large number OF
representative men Of Michigan who
had supported me, TO trial, follow
ing indictments procured by a Demo
cratic Department of Justice which.
through hundreds of agents, had
bounded and terrified men in al
parts of the state into believing
1. that some wrong had been done
Under the instructions given by
the court convictions of con-
spiracy to spend more than $3.50
naturally followed, aad sentences
imposing fines and Imprisonment
were Immediately passed. Ali charges
of bribery and corruption we're, how
! ever, quashed by the specific order
of the presiding Judge
On appeal the Supreme Court of
! the United States reversed the &C.
j tion of the court below because, al
D stated by Chief Justice White, cf
THE grave r1iisannra harasinn and fks