Show WAS JEAL JEALOUSY avy OF WOMAN CAUSE OF NEWBERRY TRIAL A statute of 0 the united states 11 allm its it the amount of money that a man may pend spend in promotion of I 1 Is can di ahey for the tilt federal senate to three thousand thou sani sal five ae hundred dollars how ilow generally this law Is igno ignored reds a 11 II 11 the world knows ve the statement that there are art few it any of the members of the senate who are not guilty of its violation not guilty iu lu the sense of has haelig it g corruptly asid money but of in one way or another more than that the he pro pre libel rum what are ar called legiel mate ex expenses pennes of senatorial ran can al idaly mav dias be ile easily run into large figures illustration let us u cite an instance of recent local obar a tion anchou mr phelan aas as a sen seu estorial six ix year years ago there r ru maintained in lit hie his beh ailt a cam 1 a agn agn headquarters hi III tilt this city with a ci coil e of managers and clerk clerks tic tie the ilse in the oric of se netting ug fo forth rth through personal interviews aej an I 1 bv circularizing through the mail malls the tile qualification qualifications of the candidate many malty n pal ers carried a setting forth it tie e fact facts or arguments mente calculate 1 I in tl if e ju judgment diment of the can li U late or hia his managers to ill I 1 ress A oters ir ftc veral meeks ire ire ceding election dav day lie 1 name of the canh lite was sins exploited in lit electric lights ill lit several of tie large centre paid for all chiso thie atil an I 1 the bill coul roul I 1 not have been beell a light one mr phelan moved up and down doun the state tate for a of month months peak speak ing I 1 lin cri and there in response to la in from communities bishing a to lear 1 ear the candidate ant an I 1 to come into personal contact with him this method of campaign is s versal ersal and has ha been ever oer since lop ular elee election tion of senators sas ordain ed it Is I 1 practiced to a greater or less degree in acry state and by cv ev cry candidate and a good 01 deal insy be eald said for it it carries to the in voter oter much that may ail all him in appraising the tela relative tive merit merits of opposing candidate candidates it is a distinct die con trib ution to the lublic information including knowledge of the tile character and general qualifications of the candi date dates when carat o 0 al gning Is I 1 to the means above described nobody is corrupted no nal ral harm Is done to anybody and ro candidate or him hi friends feel anat any moral principal or rule has been violated the ml mi seif of elaborate campaign pra tice even where here the proc procedure clure is strictly limited to so called legitimate methods ts Is ht liu it gives to a rich man mad as against I 1 t a who are not rich a tremendous a advantage lor while a man of larga means may in clean davs ris expend enorma jus sums in pro in moling 0 ting ills his cITa lac cv a man mail of lim cited means ina mav not do so an ani I 1 thus suffer by comparison eom com ianson larison one I 1 of the tile law limiting cam campaign laign turo ture is clearl frustrated aher hen a rich tich roan man may upend many man shousan thoua auh Is wt alile ile his less i ro I 1 led rj riv al at may epen open I 1 only gilly a few bundre la to or nothing at qt all from front the stimon fest te laton sn in tile nev er atry case a ac do not act the tile intyre slon sion that corrupt practice in lit to the ilie campaign litween air rr ry an I 1 mr nir I 1 or I 1 both nt wire re men jn behalf of each large sum sums nere ix cx pen pell lid id it was nas a hot aul lill CIO IL to con test and on either side the campaign managers manag went at the lucillea Lusin esil A of rounding up tip votes otes with great energy an all bat 1 at large expense I 1 probably nei net ther str mr NeN dewberry berry nor mr tord lord felt that auy anything thing reprehensible rei was being done in truth so far as the tile testimony SIX goes to show no wrong was done out side ide and apart from the fact that the lan limiting expenditures was extra i gantly and 0 only violated and the only ilea i lea la in excuse e we will not say just justification of this fact lies ilea in the further fact that practically every ether other candidate does and has done the same thing it is a poor plea but the dereliction which it Is ought sought to cover Is one upon which it Is easy to look with a certain leniency the mainspring of the prosecution ct of newberry appears to have been that of feminine jealously in a social sense the wife of mr newberry Is at the head of the heap la in detroit this fact aroused an intense jealousy on the part of the wife of a cerin editor whose efforts to get into so atty though persistently pursued failed the lady in the latter case so gossip runs sought balm for the wounds of disappointed ambition in humiliation of her successful rival if the ease cue ma be so put under domestic prompting the editor promoted the the prosecution by which dewberry newberry has b been a convicted of what may be termed legitimate ties involving the expenditure ol 01 money la in excess of three thousand five hundred dollars limit prescribed by law to what extent resentment on the part of mr unsuccessful rival mr ford has entered int into 0 the prosecution may not be known like I 1 wise to what extent resentment on the part of if the administration at washington may have hits figi figured cred in the be case may never neer be exposed dut but tain friends of ford were active in support of the movement against new berry the michigan brigade brig afe of fed ers eral office holders asre 1 also busily on the side of the prosecution the amount of money pent spent by dewberry jr and his friends in the campaign for lection election would make a poor fagu figure 0 when ben compared with the larger sums put ut into the cam campala of belous JO Je lous tuna funo for or ready and generous gc nereu support in the tillable amiable motives of personal perso aal anil ano cal cat revenge it will be interesting to see ee what action the enate senate will take in the matter of this conviction the law is t plain aad nd very obviously mr new berry la las violated it but the judges in the ease meat most it if tot all vf rr nw now berry berrys colleagues in the enat senat air equally guilty it only those wit hovi sin in are permitted to rat cast tonci th tb to r will be no quorum when that body hall shall be tiled udom t to pae pass judgment upon to sit it in the onate argonaut Argo nant |