The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-09-21
Country Without
 Leadership Asserts
 Homer $. Cummings
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 must take notice. refer to the Newberry case. Every candidate for the Unified States Senatorship should pledge himself with respect to this matter. It must be remembered that Lorimer was successful in his first contest and when the matter was brought up again in the Senate, he was expelled. The Newberry case has not been settled. It will arise testing a man than by ascertaining his attitude toward the Newberry case. Let 1t here and now be said that Senator can honestly vote to seat Newberry and have the kind of mind that is suitable for leadership at a time when one of our greatest needs is to purify public life and release it from the power of privilege and sor- did influences.
 It is quite unnecessary to deal with the details of the Newberrv case. Sem ator Newberry was not the victim of for the violation of three statutes of the United States with regard to ex- p Seditures in a primary campaign. The judge who presided at the trial jury were Republicans. MT. New berry resisted extra dition. Valuable witnesses disappeared. Some of his ass associates ss"ds went to Europe: Never
 
 When the matter came up in the Uni ted States Senate, he did not present himself for examination before the Senate committee having the matter in charge. He has never dared and does not to the present moment dare to sun1bit himself to 20 minutes cross examination by any competent attor- ney. It was simply a case of a pal pablo, reckless and wanton disregard of statutes which were framed for the purpose of protecting the purity of the ballot.
 The Supreme Court, upon appeal, found the statute in question uncon- stitutiona1 and upon a technicality MT. Newberry escaped the ultimate humiliation of actual Imprisonment. The Supreme court, however, took oc- the practices of which he had been guilty. The lavish use of money in primaries and in general elections is obnoxious to public morals and poi sons the very source of government. The seating of MT. Newberry in the l face of the undisputed facts recited in the Senate resolutions confirming him is therefort a matter of extraor- dinary significance. The resolution which the majority 0s the Senate ap- proved, declared that the sums of money spent in the Newberry cam paign were contrary to sound poli- cy, harmful to the honor and dignity of the Senate and dangerous to the per petuation of free government and that l such excessive expenditures are here by severely condemned and disap- proved
 Thus, MT. Newberry, carrying a tainted title. secured his place in the Senate. Whether that place will be retained is one of the issues of this campaign In their effort to white wash this transaction. Republican | leaders have called upon MT. Hughes to have been expected of him. Un- | happpy MT. Hughes, drawn from the l seclusion of the State Departme ent and from his contemplation of the | splendid service which he rendered to clear thinking by advising the people | that the way to get the League of Ma | t1ons was to vote for Harding-un- happy. MT. Hughes. I say is dragged | forth into the arena and required to | speak up for Newberry.
 | For NT- Hughes, you know. Is the only one left in the Cabinet about ! whose garments there, yet slings any writes a letter to a clergyman in New Jersey and says, in substance. that it was too bad that the unfortunate MT. Newberry was convicted under a sta- ute which afterwards turned out to | be unconstitutional Many people might think that it was fortunate MT. l Newberry that the statute was un- constitutional, for surely he did not | violated it. And what shall we say of | MT. Hughes? What mental tortures he must have endured before he could bring himself to share his mantle of
 responsibility with Newberry? Un- happy MT. Hughes. who could not en- | dure that a bet should be laid at a
 race track, and who pursued the sporting gentry with feverish zeal, is brought by the persuasive necessities
 of partisan politics to the open ap-
 proval of the purchase of an entire | state- No wonder that he has de- parted for Rio de Janeiro.
 Let us hope that the trip will dc him good and that he will return re- | freshed to re@ew the struggle with
 the forces of evil.
 But MT. Hughes speaks in vain
 There is not an intelligent person in
 America who is unfamiliar with the
 essential facts. It is against New
 cause of good government wages its
 oils of political hypocrisy will be
 poured upon his head in vain; and
 those who defend him connive at g
 great crime against the bulwark o1
 democratic governm ent-the free.
 dom and the purity of the ballot. Let
 us take, instead of the testimony oi
 MT. Hughes, who, let it be remember
 ed, was a former attorney for MT
 Newberry, the solemn resolution o
 the Senate itself and the language ot
 one of the most respected and cour.
 ageous senators that American ha.
 produced, Senator Kenyon, Republi
 can, of Iowa, who, speaking of tho seating of Newberry, used these words , My God, you can never lessen the dignity of the Senate after today That issues Of this kind are funda | mental and far reaching and of character to arouse the electoral, , quite independent of political affilia
 tions, seems to be too obvious fo , discussion. One vote in the Senat purchased by fraud and in violation
 of the existing laws of the land is ca pablo of changing the destiny of tn
 human race In fact, this one par
 control of the Committee on Foreigl
 Relations to fall into the hands to I Henry Cabot Lodge. of Massachusetts . with all that that means of envy ant f malice and partisanship and enven . omed jealousy.
 What other great causes will b f slain in the temple of American jus f tice. No man can tell. Newberry | like Lorimer, must be expelled if tn