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Show GOVERNMENT AWAITS RTURN OF MEN TO MINES NEWBERRY ACCUSED BY Conspiracy to Defraud in Campaign Agains. S Henry Ford Alleged; Sensation Is Created, One Hundred and Thirty-three Others Under Indictment by Federal Jury in Grand Rapids, GRANT) RAPIDS,-Ulch.. Nov. -9. Tru-1 Tru-1 man H. Newberry. United States senator j from Michigan, was indicted by a I'nllod States grand jury today for corruption. I fraud and conspiracy in connection with the election by which he obtained uiv i seal in the senate, defeating Henry Fort!, his Democratic opponent. With Newberry, 1S3 other persons wetfc j indicted by the grand jury on the same j charge. The nainep of all but thirteen :noet prominent were withheld from publication i by Judge C- W. Sessions, presiding, until i warranty could have been served on them i Among those named were P. A. Hopkinr. j St. Claire, Mich., assistant secretary ot ; the United States senate; John 6. N'ew- oerry. brother of -the senator, Detroit: ; Frank McKay, Grand Rapids: J. B. Brad-j Brad-j ley, Eaton Rapids: Gladston Beattle, Paw I Paw, and Paul H. King of Detroit. King was manager of the Newberry campaign committee. ' The others named were: Allan K. Tem-I Tem-I pleton of Detroit, president of the Newberry New-berry committee; Frederick Smith, Detroit, De-troit, manager of the Newberry estate; Charles A. Floyd, Detroit; M. P. McKt-b. Detroit: Judd Yelland, Escanaba, MjjslS M. Oakman. Detroit, formerly eoun-tj: clerk of Wayne county, and Harry. tt Turner, Detroit. Judge Sessions indicated that the t-j t-j dence before the grand jury disclosed the i fraudment expenditure of between IS.UO.Ofto and $1,000,000 in connection with lire J election. FEARFUL SCANDALS ALLEGED BY PROBERS. Government officials asserted that t he testimony presented to the grand ju:-; I had revealed a political scandal that in many respects was without parallel in American annals; They said It extvndec from the most populous wards of Detroit to the Indian reservations on the shore of Lake Superior, where aborigines ve& voted according to the behest of Newberry campaign organization. It was alleged that voters were brimjflf. election boards corrupted, editors sub,Vi-dized sub,Vi-dized and moving-picture theaters bought up in the endeavor to defeat Henry fiord, rlrst in the primaries of both parties. 4raJ later, when he had won the Democrat:--nomination, in the election itself. Officials were a bit secretive as to how the alleged conspiracy was uncovered. biH a general outline of their methods was made available. A corps of investigators were sent iufij the state under direction of EarT J. Houck. who. with Frank C. I 'ailey. -p:: clal assistant to the attorney general, qn a central fig"ure in the election frfraB cases of Terre Haute, India napdjjjj. Evansvllle and Frankfort. Tnd. Th'ef cases, beginning In 1915, resulted in stiSjp 200 convictions. Dalley and Houck came to Michigan last August. Bank records' were inspected inspect-ed and the visitors' lists of safety deposjt vaults gone fiver. With the talc of these as a starter, the investigators were sent ; out. SMALL "FRY" FIRST VISITED BY PROBERS. They visited "small fry" politicians first, offering them vague hints of vhjit might come from a mythical campaign o' a certain Michigan politician. Objections to small returns were ; fol: lowed by "confidential" comparisons with the Newberry campaign. Generally, it was said, these lesser political po-litical leaders fell Into the traps, telling what they had received and explaining who "ought to handle the money" in given wards of towns. The next grade Of political po-litical leader was then approached, aud by this method, it was stated, a clear trail ' was blazed to the higher-up. When brought into the grand jury room and confronted with accurate account.- ot their conversations with the agents, the men generally. It was said, repeated their stories. The government's legal experts, headed by Mr. Dalley. Mr. Dalesouster of QrahXt Rapids; a former district attorney, and Oliver Pagan. Indictment expert for the department of justice, took both state and federal laws as the basis for the indictments. indict-ments. The federal corrupt practices act of 1910 limits the expenditures of senatorial -an-didates to $10,000 and requires that four statements be filed with the secretary of the senate, one preceding and follow in:;, first, the primary, and then the election. The Newberry affidavit cited in the second sec-ond indictment was filed in correspondence correspond-ence with this act. i The second federal corrupt practice? act which the Indictments allege! was violated was passed in October, IMS. H made bribery ot" voters a crime after sev- B eraF 'federal courts held that such an act (Continued on Page 17, Column 3.) that all these persons conferred with Truman Tru-man H. Newberrv while he was a candidate, candi-date, thus indfratinK hia knowledge of the campalnn. It also has a number of letters let-ters which ho wrote to politicians while the campu.Rn waa on. Frederick Cody, formerly a Detroit schcol teacher, but now of New York and connected with the American Hook company, was named as one with whom the candidate conferred. These 'ircumstances were also used as a basis for the allegation of the second Indictment, that there was a Keiieral conspiracy con-spiracy to aid the senator to obtain office lllenally. There .arc counts to this Indictment, one relating to the primary affidavits, and the other to the election statements. Tlte second Indictment starts with a I count which charges expndltui s in ex-j cesa of the lecal limit In the primary and election comhined; the second count al- t I leges tlie same charge with relation to the I while the federal law do--s not forbid aJ- I vertising In newspapers, the Michigan statute specifically excludes such a preelection pre-election practice. The statement, of expenditures listed by th Newberrv campaign managers Includes In-cludes items -Which total about $1 48,000 for newspaper advertising. The count details that with the excess campaign funds. district and county agents and managers and numerous secret se-cret propagandists and detectives were hired and their expenses paid ; moving picture films were bought and much llter-I llter-I ature distributed, all of which acts arc" I alleged lo be ln violation of the Michigan law. The government agents said they had primary alone and the third repeats it as to the election alone. State Law Violated. The fourth count charges violation of the state election lav,' in that more than StiT.'.O was spent in the two campaigns. In this connection. It is pointed out that I proof that one movie film alone cost $So00. The fifth count charges conspiracy to commit thousands of offenses against the' federal act of October, 191$, forbidding payment of money to voters. Pristles With Charges. The sixth count bristles with accusations. accusa-tions. , H alleges that certain defendants each contributed more than the total amount allowed by faw, knowing all the , time that they were violating the stat- utes. and that certain of the defendants Induced others to give by falsely repre- sen ting the amounts already contributed j to the campaign. It alleges further that more than $100,-000 $100,-000 of the amounts so contributed were J uonvertej to the personal use of ceriain i politicians, a. It also charged that more j than ?.00)0o was paid to newspapers, I campaigners of all degrees, for office and, hall rent. Sinners and other entertain- i nient. ' The charge that James Helm was hired i on salary and expenses to run against Ford n the Democratic primary, follows and then come accusations that Republi-i.can Republi-i.can candidates for county offices were i paid money upon condition that they sup-I sup-I port the Newberry senatorial aspirations. The count concludes with allegations of wholesale bribery of voters, election boards nnd other officials. GOIOPTI CHARGED BY FEDERAL PROBERS i Coau...'(Ju rom l'a -'.e one waa not an ofTense against the laws of the United States. This law came into being after the Michigan primary-, but Just ahead of the election. The state laws -were brought in oecause the Wt of 1910 provides that if a slate limits campaign expenditures to less than the llOiTOO named In that act, then the state law Shall apply to campaigns within with-in that commonwealth. As it happens, the Michigan statutes limit campaign expenditures ex-penditures to one-fourth of the yearly salary of the position sought for eacii primary or election campaign. An aspirant as-pirant for United States senator In this State may, therefore, it was argued, spend only $1S75 on the primary and an equal amount on the election campaign. The law forbidding use of the mails to defraud was first used in election cases by Mr. Bailey in the Terre Haute Indictments. Indict-ments. It was applied to the Newhetry case as probably covering various letters sent to campaign contributors, which letters, let-ters, it was harged. were worded so as to deceive tbe recipients as to the amounts already collected by the Newberry treasury. treas-ury. To meet a probable defense that Senator Sena-tor Newberry .as ignorant of tbe amount of money and its sources nsed In his campaign cam-paign the government Intends to use a statement issued by the senator's managers man-agers shortly after the first rumors ot corruption began to be' heard. Relatives Are Involved. This statement showed receipts of SITS-.-R5C and expenditures cf (176,508, Of the contributions, John s Newberry, the senator's sen-ator's brother, was credited with j'JD.POu; A. Victor Barnes of New York, president of the American Book company and a brother of Mrs. Truman Newberry, with 125,000; Henry B. Joy of Detroit, another brothel'-'n-law of the senator, with S115,-000, S115,-000, and Mrs. Henry B. Joy, tlie senator's sister, with 10,000. The government will attempt to show |
