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Trumpet-loud, trumpet-blasty is the voice of New Hampshire's Senator Charles William Tobey, Republican. As a member of the Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee he investigated vote-fraud charges in New Jersey, found conditions that made him peal with indignation. Last week his brassy solo became a duet when Boss Frank Hague stalked into the committee's hearings (a subpoena had brought him). Boss Hague proved to be no piccolo player himself...
Hague: "We're giving the people . . . real government, conscientious government." (Pointing to Tobey and addressing Senator Alva Adams): "What's he frothing at the mouth about...
Hague (to Tobey): "Stand up, Senator. What a spectacle! What a fine person to represent the people in the United States Senate...
...Tobey: "Your position here is no different than that of the little woman who a few days ago sat in the chair you're now occupying and testified that she had been beaten up and kicked in the stomach three times in a Jersey City precinct when she tried to vote. Get that clear...
Hague (as Tobey's son, Charles Jr., leans over to whisper in his father's ear): "Tee hee! Look at Willie whistling into...