Milford chronicle., 1922-01-27

Democratic minority in the Senate, opened his speech
against the seating Of Senator Newberry follows:
"The before the Senate does not present the
ordinary question to whether senator has fairly
and honestly elected to seat in this body AS this
case believe the country will see it, the issue in
voved here is whether the Republican party as
party intends to obey the law Of the land That is the
issue involved here. 1t is seldom that you find con-
tested that closely connected with party organ
ization as this case is"
The spectacle of the United States Senator Ala
bama other of the Southern states presm-
ing to hale the Republican party to the bar of public
opinion the charge that in federal elections that
party obey the law the land say least
excites derision.
There hasn't been an honest federal election in any
Southern state since 1870 The law of the land obedience
which suddenly concerns Southern senator's been
openly and contemptdousy houed in every federal
ton in every Southern state. There is not the slightest
preense in the South of conforming to the mandates of
the federal Constitution regards the rights Of citizens
to vote.
Under the favorable conditions less than 20 per
cent of the legal citizenship of the South exercises the
right of franchise in federal elections In states the
proportion low less than per cent. There is
not Democratic senator from any Southern state who
elected in conformity with the United States Cons
tuition and the federal election laws.
There not a Democratic senator who arose to
denounce the seating of Senator Newbery who has right
to his seat his credentials examined and passed
in accordance with the provisions of the United
States Constitution.
If the federal laws enforced in the South there
would be but skeleton of the Democratic party
which exists ve-sixths of it's representation
the House of Representatives would be eliminated
The entire opposition to the seating of Senator New
berry the aftermath of the failure of the Wilson ad
minstration and the Democratic national and congress-
Onal organizations to steal the Republican nomination in
Michigan through disreputable methods that jus
fed publicly because they kept within the law owing
vital weakness in the Michigan primary laws.
The entire machinery of the Wilson regime, the pub
cy bureaus of the government financed by money from
he federal treasury directed against the candi-
lacy of Senator Newbery He either had to go down
lefeat Witnessing the of his party primaries by
he Democratic administration he had to raise funds
privately to campaign of publicity that offset the
campaign conducted of the United treasury by
he Democratic administration.
Because he did the latter and won he became the OBJ
ect Of undyng hatred and malicious abuse by the Will
son administration The Democratic party organization
fallen heir to this heritage of hatred and has sought
every that foul to obtain revenge upon New
erry by unseatng him and defaming, not only his per-
Onal character but the Republican state of Michigan.
The charges of corruption which were launched
gainst Newberry utterly collapsed when the time came
o sustain them
The whole opposition simmered down in the last :
ours of the debate to the ridiculous proposition that
pending money for advertising is corruption because
uch advertising bribes the editorial columns of the
which carry it. Never before an absurd
nd untenable proposition been made,-a proposition
hich is much of libel the character the news
of the country the charges against Newberry
ere libelous in regard to him.
The charge that carrying advertising bribes the
'rial influences of newspaper which freely made
the opposition to Newberry in the closing hours of
debate is typical the entire case which was franz
up against Mr.. Newberry-a which had it's origin
the inner circles of the Wilson regime and which had
II its motive the glut for revenge upon both the man
nd the party which defeated the attempts the Wilson
gme to steal seat in the United States Senate through
prostitution Of the primary election of sovereign state