The New York herald., 1922-01-12
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of irony and sarcasm picturing the 1918
election as public sale
Convinced that they have more than
lighting chance to oust Senator New
berry. the leading Democratic Senators
took part in the debate and fred hot
shot into the Newberry camp. They
warned the Republicans tha. they in
tended to make the Newberry case an
issue in the next campaign II the Michi-
san Senator gets q vote of confidence.
Senator Underwood (Ala.D contended
that the inhibition OF the Michigan stat
utes against expenditure of more than
$3.50 by Senatorial candidate APP
piled also to the expenditures by the
candidates committee. He said New
berry's seat was obtained by corruption
and warned Republicans that II they
voted TO seat him the Democrats would
carry the issue to the people next cleo
tion.
This case is not one of whether a
Senator Is entitled to his seat" Senator
Underwood said. 1T does not confine
itself to the question of the seat or the
person involved. The issue involved is
whether the Republican party intends to
obey the law of the land. 1t Is seldom
you find contested election case so
closely connected with a party organiza-
tion as this is. l am not saying this
with any desire to stir up political ami
mostly. but because ii is a fact growing
out of the conditions In the case, a fact
which every man in this chamber must
recognize.
1--WE all know that during the wa the
question arose of which party should
remain in control of this Senate. / do
not criticize the other party because 1t
desired to gain control: it was n per-
fectly natural and proper desire. but
that was the condition, and one seat in
The Senate would affect the result and
would determine which party would or
sanze the Senate. and that one seat
was the seat occupied by the sitting
member from Michigan"
Reviewed by Underwood.
Mr.. Underwood reviewed the Michigan
Senatorial contest and said that after
Henry Ford became an aspirant for the
Republican nomination the Republican
leaders not only in the Senate but in the
party as a whole decided they could
not accept Ford as their candidate be-
cause If he got into the Senate they
would not be able to control him or his
vote" 1t was therefore decided by the
party leaders to get candidate they
could support, and Newberry himself in
his statement to the Senate asserted he
had been draft for the race.
"Then when the issue became doubt
full" Senator Underwood said. ''and 1t
became apparent that the drafted candi-
date could not win It was determined
to buy the seat. 1t was deliberately
determined to buy the seat. That is
the plain truth about 1t. 1 do not know
exactly how much was spent
MIR. Newberry in his statement be-
fore the Senate two days ago admitted
that $4,000 was expended, and l be-
lieve it was more than that. That con-
stitutes corruption in politics. 1t does
not make any difference whether the
Senator who occupies the seat partici-
pated in the actual expenditures or
not. The fact remains that Mr.. New
berry could not be elected except
through corrupt use Of money in his
campaign.
II am not charging that this money
was spent to buy votes l believe 1t
is just as corrupt to spend such an