New-York tribune., 1922-11-11
Newberry May
Resign His Seat
And Rum Again
Continued from usss ons)

NIli0iGhteQ, tNe NeWnerTy issue W0utQ
be ended as q campaign weapon for the
Democrats and serious crimp would
be put in the Ford Presidential boom.
On the other hand, If he should lose
the loss would actually be very slight,
and he would at least have the salts
faction of going down fighting.
The loss would be slight, they point
OUT because in all probability New
berry will be unseated by the next
Senate II he remains passvely in the
Senate. 1t is we'll known that the most
tremendous pressure was needed to
muster enough votes to prevent his
being. unseated on the previous vote.
On the very morning the vote was
taken there was no assurance how It
was going, and more than one Republi-
can who was anxious for the sake OF
his own political future to vote against
Newberry was whipped into line.
No one in Washington believes that
the same forces could save Newberry
again once the new Senate is sworn in.
Senator-elect Ferris, from Newberry's
own state, will vote for expulsion, he
has already announced. He takes the
place of Senator Townsend, who voted
for Newberry, and whose defeat-re-
sulting in the first Democratic Senator
elected from Michigan since the Re-
PeDfi."t Pa'i ~ WAS oIEaHiGeu-lS AT
tributed by the Democrats very largely
to the Newberry Issue.
New Senate Would Oppose Him
In addition every Democratic Sen
ator elected in place Of Republican
last Tuesday. including Copeland, Of
New York, Edwards, Of New JERSEY.
Bayard, of Delaware, Raiston, of
Indiana. and Dill, of Washington, not
IN pna
ators as Brookhart. Howell, Frazier
and DR.. Shipstead,, the farmer-labor
Senator-elect from Minnesota, are all
expected to. vote to unseat Newberry,
and al but Two rrof%s them replace Sem
ators who voted to save Newberry, Che
tETo are Brookhart and Howell.
So it is really not regarded as a
debatable question here as to what
will happen to Newberry if he merely
waits developments. The truth is that
with the picture of what happened to
EcWherry's supporters at the lecent
ection-absolutely regardless of the
merits of the case---very few Senators
would dare to vote against resolution
unseating him.
On the other, the friends of Mr..
Newberry are urging that he can de-
stroy this delusion about the potency
OF the Newberry issue by making g
fight at n special election. They point
out in this connection that the strong
est man the Democrats of Michigan
have Is now out Of the way. He was
elected Senator over Townsend last
Tuesday. They believe, what the peo-
pie or the country do not appreciate,
that it was far more the popularity of
Ex-Governor Ferris than the Ncwberry
issue which dragged Townsend to
defeat.
They know, for example. that the
rock-rihbed Republican state of Mich,
gan had already elected Ferris Gov
eraor on two occasions, long before
Newberryism was an issue. They know
that on ono occasion this same Ferris
ran 10000 votes ahead of his ticket
proportion almost equal to the AL
Smith lead on Cox two years ago in
New York.
Graduates Helped Ferris
Ferris is now seventy years old. He
has been making lasting friends all his
life. His school at Big Rapids has been
grinding out graduates who spread to
all parts of the state and who at cleo
tion time worked for their old precep-
tor with all the cnth asiasm of a foot
ball team.
Michigan has always been so stall
Waftiy RepuDilcan that she has de-
'yeloped few Democrats who have made
themselves figures in the state. The
strongest man after Ferris, it is said,
is probably Frank Doremus, former
member of the House from the one
district which this time returned q
Democrat, who, by the way, was
Doremus's old secretary, Robert Clancy.
Doremus got out of politics voluntarily
and does not want to get back.
So that Newberry, with the advan-
tage as we'll as the disadvantage of
having his name household word,
would not have to oppose tremen-
dously popular figure. He would have
y chance to fight it out on the pure
and unadulterated issue of whether or
not he should be punished because his
friends spent some 100000 to keep
Henry Ford out Of the Senate, at d
time when many patriotic men thought
Henry Ford and what he stood for was
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