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Show NEWBERRY DECLARED SDFFERING TORTDRE OF HELL ACCUSED TO FACE SENATE FOES MONDAY Newberry Bitterly Regrets Day He Entered Political Field DEBATE IS DRAMATIC Townsend Declares No Poor Man Lost in Michigan Contest WASHINGTON Jan 7 - The senate rested lonlght In the fight to oust Senator Sen-ator Newberry of Michigan, but friend and foe of Newberry were prepared to push the battle with rencw-ed vigor Monday when h will appear to dc-( fend himself before his senatorial ac-cusera ac-cusera 4 a .. '. ..I....,,..,.' ,lf,.nt,. . .f Newberry on the part of his colleague, Senator Townsend, Republican Michigan, Michi-gan, was the outstanding featifro of to- I day's debate. Senator Townsend declared certain interests had threatened his political life If ho voted to sustain the right of SerTatOJ Newberry o his seat. On the Democratic side. Walsh, of Montana. Trammel of Florida and Harrison of Mississippi, undertook to refute the arguments of Townsend "There were three candidates for the senate in Michigan and they were all millionaires," declared Townsend in answering the charge that Newberry's New-berry's campaign was a rich man's campaign NO POOR MAN LOST "No poor man lost his chance? inj that campaign because it was no c:mi-paign c:mi-paign for a poor man. "If Truman H. Newberry and his friends bought his election, thousands of people of the state of Michigan sold it to him. "But there hasn been a shred of evidence that will show fraud or corruption cor-ruption was employed. In the past 1 have been reasonably popular In my state and have not required re-quired any more than the ordinary amount of advertising when I conducted conduct-ed a campaign. Ml OH ADVERTISING "Tho case was different with Mr-Newberry Mr-Newberry Instead of advertising in six or eight papers as I did, he advertised ad-vertised in 300 all of the papers "Can we draw a moral or a legal line and say that the amount of advertising ad-vertising or the amount of publicity or the amount of convasslng must be limited to the amount of my campaign cam-paign a poor man"" Townsend, reforrlng by implication to statements of Senator Kenyon. Republican. Re-publican. Iowa, and others that men who voted for Newberry would be deprived de-prived of their seats by their constituents, consti-tuents, declared. "It is a coward's argument to threat-! en a senator wfcth destruction if he does not happen to vote ;Ls a senator who makes tho threat thinks he ought to, vote. Senator Newberry is a senator here He has a rlghi . o appear on this floor on his honor as a senator und what he says Is entitled to respect.' TORTURES OF HELL Time and ajjuln he was lntenuped as he attacked the enemies of Newberry, New-berry, who he said were "trying to deprive him of his seat out of animosity animos-ity und hatred." I do not doubt." he declared, "that this gooil man who this moment Is a senator would give every dollar he has if he had never entered tho campaign cam-paign He has suffered tho tortures of hell: he bus been villlfled and accused ac-cused and blamed and It Is all the WOrSO, because. I am convinced, X is a political Job." I Senator Trammell. Democrat of Flor-. ida, engaged In exchanges with Mr. I TownSend and Into these colloquies en-1 tered Senator Spenn r. Republican of Missouri, who Is leading ihe fight tor Newberry; and Senator Walsh, Demo-i crat of .Montana, i atronsj opponent. CLAIMS DENOUNCED Senator Trammel! later spoke for thirty minutes In denunlcatlon of the1 claims for retention by Mr. Nowberry 01 his seat. Discussing expenditures in the Michigan Mich-igan primary Mr Townsend asserted that throughout ihe court and cum-mlttee cum-mlttee records alike ran ths thread of money money from beginning to end. "This money was not used," he continued, con-tinued, for legVlmate purposes but to dq the very things forbidden by tho, Michigan statutes." The galleries were crowded and among tho onlookers were Sehatoi Newberry's two sons, while In another' gallery eat Alfred Lucking, Henry-Ford's Henry-Ford's "paid agent" in his speech ana in that connection mentioned reference by Senator Kenyon Republican of Iowa, in a recent attack on Newberry, to trie workings of a "social lobby ' the Michigan senator declared he knew nothing of such force but added he would rather be subjected to he Influences In-fluences of friendship than to that of bitter partisanship and contempHMe underhand dealing." |