South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-02-17
STATES NEWBERRY
CASE is issue IN
INDIANA POLITICS
Fort Wayne Editor Flags
Whitewashing of Michigan
Senator by Colleagues.


claude @ Bowers of the Fort Wayne
Iournal-Gazette AZ The annual ban
ouct of the India Demo
cratic Editorial association here
Thursday night Mr. Bowers re-
called that two democratic seua-
tors John W Kern and Benjamin
r Shlvely had voted 20 Gust VIII
Lam Lorimer from the senate and
then added that "of tho five men
who led the fight for the exouera-
ton Of the notorious Newberry two
or the five were the present scna-
tors from Indiana.
Mr. Bowers attacked the present
congress declaring that cit viii
leave behind a record That will de-
serve no epitaph" and that it has
lacked che courage 90 destroy ''the
monumental achievements OF the
Wilson administration
Mr. Bowers said i'm part.
The homogeneous and incompati-
bIc combination of irreconcilable
elements that won tho election Of
1920 was born with the germs Of
quick consumption in It's blood and
ST Is now gaUoping 20 It's inevitable
dissolution Just As its birth gave
no iov. It's demise will bring no sOr-
row. and # VIII leave behind rec
ord that viii deserve no epitaph.
THE politicians and the pretend
ers who admitted that they had a
monopoIv on constructive states
1nanship have been entrusted by a
credulous people with all the tools,
but they have been unable to con-
struct. and i'm the case OF the monu-
mental achievements OF the Wilson
administration they have even lack
ed the courage 20 destroy
so perfectly was our work done
that today. with every branch OF the
government overwhelmingly in the
hands OF the enemy, no one has had
the temerity 70 propose that a
single one Of these legislative
achievements. with the exception Of
the tariff. shall be wiped from the
statutes OF the nation
Condemns Lodge Policy.
In constructive craftsmanship the
republican congresses of the last
three years have been barren o. re-
suits The only lcgible words writ
ten on the pages Of the record are
damn Wilson IN the -chirography
of Henry Cabot Lodge. who has
been described as the greatest
moral traitor since Benedict Ar
mold Scarcely is the news flashed
over the wires that a law has been
enacted till n reassuring bulletin is
FASTENED 10 q disguised people that
Of course il viii have 20 be revised.
But this congress has done one
thing-it has snatched a debaucher
OF American institutions from the
hands OF a Michigan jury which nad
taken his measurements for the pen
itentiary and has decorated him
with the toEa OF a senator of the
United States. When the leaders Of
the party in power went to the
shadow OF the penitentiary for a
colleague. il publicly proclaimed
that senate seats may legitimately
be placed upon the auction block
and knocked down to the highest
bidder The records Of the New
berry case reek with corruption.
The agents OF the crime had fled to
the Canadian woods 90 escape the
examination Of the officers OF the
law. The progress of this odoroUs
creature from Detroit to Washing
ton is marked 10y the dirty dripplngs
OF his purse Cringiug with the
cowardice OF conscious guilt. he re-
fused TO submit himself TO the ex-
animation of the court or the SEN
ate investigating committee and
pinned his faith on the fact that but
for his single vote which was out
81 Jail on bail the reactionaries
would have been unable to- pack Tho
foreign relations committee wi'h
enemies Of the League 90 Nations
With all the SNUG impudenCe with
which he posed on the bridge Of
fake warship in Union square for
the picture that was TO prove his
patriotism I'm days of battle. he ac-
cepted the entertainment OF the
white house I'm the midst or the seua-
r1rial investigation and PLAYED golf
with the president OF the republic
far from the accommodating stencil
o. the senate committee room.
Praises Scwberry Opponents.
Thank God for the Few republi-
can rebels who placed the republic
above party and joined the solid
ranks OF the democrats in the at
tempt 20 drive this creature from
the chamber he disEraced.
"Newberry is an issue in Indiana.
and I viii tell YOU why Ten years
ago there was Ncwberry from IL
linois demanding the legitimatizing
OF purchased senate seats. and the
decency OF the nation rose in revolt.
and there was a Lorimer investiga-
ton. No man was so conspicuous
IN the Purging OF the senate then as
Sen. John w. Kern Of Indiana He
was the leader in the committee
and on the floor. denounced and
damned by every Tlorimet1te be-
tween the seas. And when the roll
was called the decent patriotic senti-
ment OF the state was milltantly
voiced by the votes OF John W Kern
and Benjamin r. ShIvely against the
blond boss OF Illinois.
But. oh. the shame or the record
spread upon the PAGES or the papers
o. the nation nov. that OF the five
men who led the fight for the ex-
oneration OF the notorious Newberry.
twO OF the five were the present
senators from Indiana Yes. the
state which boosts thar its senators
90 ali parties have always carried
clean credentials 70 the capitol. has
heen impudentIy advertised 10 the
nation as 100 per cent rotten. And
one or these two senators Is now
asking the clean. patriotic citizenship
Of the state 20 place upon his leader
ship OF the Newbsrry forces the