Evening star., 1922-01-23
The Newberry Verdict.

The resolution which secured to
Truman H. Newberry his seat in the
United States Senate "reads like d
it again." the Syracuse Herald Gin
dependent) remarks. But to the
Sioux City Tribune (independent) it
is much moro serious than that, in
effect an admission from the Senate
that the seat was bought and paid
for" The Albuquerque On. NJ
Journal Independent republican,
paraphrases it another way: Seats IN
the United States Senate ought not
to be put up for sale to the highest
bidder or bought outright. but in
the event that a member of the re-
publican party did buy such seat ne
should be allowed to retain the prop
erty."
The fight over seating Newberry
twas a moral ISSUE" says the South
Bend Tribune independent repub-
lican), but after significant dash
it adds-"until the vote was cast.
Then the ballotinE revealed the con-
battle" The Baltimore American Gre
publican) regrets that the questions
involved could not be settled by the
governing body regardless OF party
lines" for then "the voters would
feel more confidence in the justice
OF the verdict arrived at" But demo-
Gratis voted against Newberry, the
New Haven Register Independently
declares, mot necessarily because
they believed his election to have
been improperly obtained. but be-
cause he is a republican" and the re-
publicans, the American comedies,
"stood firm for the party's sake"
But while the democratic press is
solid in its condemnation of the whole
proceeding, republican papers are far
from united behind the majority vote
which seated the Michigan senator.
Much of the bitterest denunciation of
what the New York Globe Cindepen-
dent) calls the "glaring example of
hypocrisy" which the Springfield Re-
publican (independent? says con
demned an offense while welcoming
the offender" comes from republican
journals. Moreover. a large part of
the defense is predicated on "the un-
usual circumstances attending the
Michigan contest" to quote the Ari-
zona Republican (Phoenix. indepen-
dent progressively, in which New
support Of the administration in a
critical time, but. the Chicago Tribune
independent republican, notes. had
also "the benefit of much greater
wealth than could be used for him. "
Strong emphasis is also given, how
ever, to the fact that "in all the
tempestuous and Fictitious campaign
against Newberry," as the Evansville
(Ind.) Journal (republican) has 1t,
mo real and conclusive evidences of
the corruption of the electorate were
established"
In fact, "it was a case on which
men might differ without impugn-
ing their honesty" the Buffalo Ex-
press independent republican, be-
the Baltimore News independently
that "any senator who sincerely be-
lfeved him entitled to his seat requir-
ed more moral courage to vote ac-
cordingly than for his opponents to
drift with the tide"
in such expressions as that of the
Springfield News, which decides that
"goId, after all, seems to be the rul-
ing power" for, the Florida Metropolis
(Jacksonville) announces, United
states senatorships are now for sale, "
and partisanship has declared New
berry entitled to a seat which. the
worcester Post says, is padded with
dollar bills" But after all. the Roam
oke World News thinks, nothing else
could have been expected In the cir
cumstances, because "Mr. Newberry
was not simply one republican SEN
ator from Michigan. He was the whole
republican majority at highly i'm
portant moment in republican his
tory" and to repudiate him would
be to repudtates everything done by
the majority he made possible, and
acknowledge, the New York World
asserts, that control Of the Senate
during the Sixty-sixth Congress was
grounded in corruption" The Boston
Herald Independent republican, adj
mits that "for the republicans them
selves to confess q flaw in their title
to power in the last Congress would
have been troublesome historically"
and they could not afford ITO in-
Ign