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Show liECTION MEANS NEW ATTACK ON NEWBERRY I GIVING SEAT TO MICHIGAN HAN OPPOSED Senator-Elect Points Out 9 Newberry Senators Were Defeated. DILL IS BABY SOLON I Washington State Lawmaker Law-maker Tells How He Beat Poindexter SEATTLE, Wash., ov. 10. Clarence Clar-ence O. Dill. Doni cral 61 Bpokan; whose ihction to Hir l nit-. I St itos I senate is lndkat 'd L roti'rna ..i -R iiii h Chimes llcbbcrrl. J'.publk .n f:.u-cbklrtnani f:.u-cbklrtnani does not expect ":iny material ma-terial change," .will bi the youngreat iii- tn I ie r when ho i.sUosi his scut M;ir;:b 4, ll is s iii heie Mr Dill, who was 3 years oil three weeks ago. is a bachelor Beslaed truest tr-uest L.lster, fornit:- croernor. he is the onlj Democru.: tu win a a:jt .-- ido content In s nshlnfon sinrt th' r'oru-' list wave. He Is the only Demourat ever ree:ccted to congress in the state, having served ironi March. 1915, to March. I. fit.. George Turner I ot Spokane, the only other DemocrittiC I senator in thc history of the state, was put In by u fusion of r'opuhsts and Democrats In the legislature or, 187. l'EA HER AND REPORTER Mr. l-dll was born nar l'redorlcks-town. l'redorlcks-town. Knox county. Ohio, and was graduated from Ohio Wesleyan unl- ; vtrslty ln 1907 He has been u school t oher and a newspaper man Ui profeaslon 19 the law He was a deputy prosecuting uttorney and was! secretary to the late Governor Lis- tor. 1 based m campaign pretty largely large-ly on the seating of rinator Truman ll Newberry of Michigan' says Mr. Dill "That 1 considered to bo the . iKness in the armour of my Re-publii Re-publii uii opponent. Senator Mtie.i Poindexter I talked the Esch-Cum-mln. act taxation and farm legrisht-tlon legrisht-tlon In my campaign I bcllc-vc that I these arc ltal. NEWBERRY ATTACKED. "But 1 gave the people a pledge thai If they would elect me 1 would! go back to the senate and work for the unseating of Newberry. 1 assume that older men in the senate will take the lead ln this, light It appears now that nine senators sen-ators who otcd for the seating of KWberry were defeated out of th 9 13 who were up lor reelection. New-j berry kept his seat by a 46 to 4 1 vote." Mr. Dill's supporters are declaring that when the flk'uics hnve all bee.i .settled, his campaign will be found to have cost almost nothing. ltleh men, It is related, when asked to ontnt.utc to the Din campaign; pointed out the improbability of a Democratic senator being elected in Washington, ine targoei k"- reported re-ported to have been $10'i from a. Skagit county lumber man POINDEXTER RETIRES- SPOKANE, Wash.. Nov. 10. Retirement Re-tirement to private life that ho may I do v.nrk With which his public duties havo Interfered was given out as the I futun- plan by retiring 1'nlted States Senator Miles Poindexter. believed defeated by C. C. Dill, his Democratic) opponent, ln Tuesday's election Saying he Intended to make his home in Spokane, for somo time to come, Senator Poindexter declined to discuss bhe possibility of his accepting accept-ing i federal appointment under the Harding administration He did not divulge the nature of thc work he planned to do. 1 feel deeply grateful to the thou- Hands u: r r i mi: who unselfishly ald'-d ine ln this campaign,' Mr. Poindexter Said in iiis first comment on the election. elec-tion. "The worst feature of the defeat de-feat is the breatklng of these asso-! datlons. I have never lost faith In I the' people and I accept their verdict in the utmost good faith and loy-1 alty" Senator Poindexter will leave for Washington, D C, early next week to attend tin special nJ short sessions of congress. |