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...found herself confronted by three adversaries instead of one. They were: 1) James Hamilton ("J. Ham") Lewis, Democratic Senatorial nominee; 2) Mrs. Lottie Holman O'Neill, independent dry candidate; 3) the Senate Committee on Campaign Expenditures chairmanned by North Dakota's 37-year-old Senator Gerald Prentice Nye. Adversary No. 3 furnished the week's melodramatics...
...closet of her hotel suite in Chicago after a campaign conference there. Her telephone wires were tapped. She assumed that the Senate investigation was responsible. She marched into the W. C. Dannenberg Detective Agency in Chicago, put down $1,500 as a retainer, hired sleuths to trail Senator Nye and his investigators. Fortnight ago Senator Nye discovered he was being shadowed (TIME, Sept. 8). Last week he held committee meetings in Chicago to inquire into Nominee McCormick's counterespionage...
...McCormick made no bones about what she had done. Said she: "Senator Nye wants to know who did it. I did it. I am still doing it. . . . Prosecution became persecution. . . . I have acted in self-defense. If Senator Nye is indignant, so am I. . . . What is Senator Nye going to do about...
Pressmen waited for Senator Nye thus challenged to make a hot denial of responsibility for the ransackings and riflings. But Senator Nye made no denial. Instead he interrogated Dannenberg detectives, was told that his own investigators had tried to bribe the private sleuths to betray their employer. A roll of money was thrown down on the committee table as evidence of the bribe. Declared Chairman Nye...
...While admitting that there might be truth in one individual's alleged prophecy that when this private investigation of myself was finished 'Nye would be selling papers on the depot platform at Fargo, N. Dak., or grinding a hand organ for a dancing monkey,' my answer to the question as to what I shall do about it is only this...