New-York tribune., 1922-11-20

in 1918, when Newherry obstrusses the
deaire of woodrow Wilaon that Henri,
Ford should nit in the United States
I Senate. 1t was aF Wilson's sugrns,
ton that Ford made tia race. He en-.
tered both primaries and Newberry op.
posed in the Republican primary.
Newherry won by fair margin, and
then began the onslaught as to hit
campaign expenses. During the cam.
/ paign Aewbegry. recalled into active
service as s lieutenant commander In
the navy, was stationed in New York
! The Eight in Michigan was made by his
| friends and relatives, who piled up &
campaign fund Of some s30o,oee.
II was perfertiy evident to every one
! in the state shat the corrupt practices
laws had been violated. Newberry's
/ friends had bought liberal space in the
newspapers up and down the state and
actually spent more than the legal
4 amount several times over in open
newspaper advertising.
They thought it was necessary and
they still think it was necessary. In
/ fact they still feel so strongly about il
| that several of them told the writer
| during the recent campaign that. con
sfiering everything as of the fall of
I 1918. they would eheerfully have gone
! " Jdtt W nave kept t1cfiES Z ora out OF
| the Senate and would have regarded
! themselves as patriotic martyrs as tney
1 served In stripes.
Fought Ford an PaeiHst
I They pointed out that when this
/ money was spent-in newspaper adver-
1 tising to tell the voters of Michigan
why they thought Newberry should be
! elected and why Ford should be defeated
--tae country was &C war---that Henry
/ Ford was a pacifist--that Ford had sent
| the peace ship to Europe and that
Ford's son, Edsel, was being attacked
! as & draft dodger. They particularly
resented Wilson's having asked Ford to
run, they pointed out, because the de-
cision of the local draft board that Edsel
Ford was not cptitled to exemption was
oyerruled from Washington.
! Naturally, these men pointed out,
I the armistice, which came in less than
week after the election, softened
many of the feelings which had been
I SO strong at the time. Long before
/ Newberry presented his credentials to
/ the Senate Wilson was in Paris on his
| second trip, having promised an audi
| ence in New York that he would SO
I intertwine the peace treaty end the
League Of Nations that the Senate
could not disentangle them, but would
be compelled to accept both.
The fight against Newberry burned
steadily, growing more bitter as the
! Democrats, to their amazement, saw
the final defeat of the Versailles
treaty by the Senate, President Wilson
/ having refused to accept ratification
with the Lodge reservations
J Finally, long after his period eS
/ vital need to the anti-treaty element
| had passed, came the vote on the reso-
luton to unseat Newberry. The dis
| couraging feature to Newberry's friends
was the reluctance of some of the Re-
! puhlicans 20 vote for Newberry, despite
| his tremendous service to the party.
| Had it not been for some very drastic
| whipping into line of shaky RepubIi-
| cans on the morning Of the vote there
| is no doubt that Newberry would have
| been unseated at the time.
Senate Censures Expenditures
All possibility of real defense of
him before the country by the Republi-
can party was swept away by the
adoption of an amendment proposed
by Senator Willis, of Ohio, expressing
disapproval of such lavish expenditure
Of money.
Newberry's friends are bitterly re-
sentful over Willis's action to this
day, for they charge that had it nos
Deeh Tor NeWberry there would have
been no Harding landslide in 1920 to
sweep Willis into the United States
Senate.
With the vote in the present Senate
on unseating Newberry so close that
some very coercive measures were
needed to save him, his fate at the
hands of the next Senate was sealed
AS pointed out by the writer in The
Tribune of November II, Newberry's
| friends appreciated this and under.
stood from Mr.. Newberry that he would
resign. There was some surprise here
that he had acted so speedily, as the
question could not well have been
brought up formally in the present
| Senate.
| However, Mr.. Newberry appreciated
that there would be plenty of comment
! in the session to open tomorrow on
the results of the election, and he
wished to wipe it off the slate, so that
i there would be no steps in campaign
leading up to another vote on New
| berryism"
Governor Groesbeck has announced
in the last ten days that he would not
resign and be appointed to the seat
himself, and there is no information
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