OCR Text |
Show NEWBERRY RESIGNS. Senator Truman H. Newberry of .Michigan has resigned and with that resignation has come, so far as the L'nitecl Slates senate is concerned, the end of a fight regarding his right to ; place in congress. Some of the United States senators, who have fought against Senator New-1 berry declare that the battle against I Newbtrnism Is not ended, however,) that it will continue as long as any .'cnntor who voted for him 1b a candidate candi-date for re-election Noticeable ot iho is Senator LaFollette, who had planned to ask the reopening of the ' Newberry case as soou as the senate leconvened Tho recent election showed that the American people a.s general rule are opposed to Newberry ism or to iho pending of excessive sums of monr v in elections. In many states, particularly particu-larly where Senator Newberry's staunchest senatorial supporters were candidates for re election, New- j berryism became a vital Issue. Sena- J for Townse.nd of Michigan was defeated defeat-ed upon that issue. Senator Freling-hausen Freling-hausen of New Jersey and others tound their votes for Newberry were part of campaign problems that they j could not overcome Senator Newberry should have resigned re-signed many months ago. Immediately Immediate-ly after the supreme court decision, which declared unconstitutional the law under which he was declared guil ty or over-expenditure in an election, the Michigan man should have resigned. re-signed. It would have helped him and helped his political party He has gained nothing but notoriety by remaining re-maining in the senate, he has lost in preetlgo just In proportion to that gain in notoriety and It Is not Improbable that the linking of his name with tho Republican majority In the United States senate cot that party a half dozen or more seats in the upper house He was ill-advised in his course. However there has been one gain from the proceedings the American people had tho opportunity to express ex-press themselves regarding the methods meth-ods they do not desire to have fol-'owed fol-'owed In financing political campaigns. |