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Beaters for a Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee, stationed in Newark, flushed one witness after another to tell what he knew about the partridge dances in neighboring Hudson County, where Democratic Committee Vice Chairman Frank Hague is boss of the bush. The Committee's valiant Republican Senator Charles W. Tobey watched and listened, with blunderbuss at the ready. Beside him sat his colleague, Senator Alva Adams, little, solid and Democratic, who would rather be off hunting in Republican-controlled South Jersey counties...
...Senator Tobey was all set to blaze away, but it looked as if he would have no chance. Just before he took position, it was announced that a county official had burned the Hudson County 1936 and 1937 poll books (which voters must sign as they vote and which were said to contain evidence of forgery). But Senator Tobey's beater, Investigator H. Ralph Burton, did his best to give the Senator something to shoot at. Burton scared up many a gamy allegation. Samples...
After getting Charles F. Stoebling, former county commissioner of registration, to concede reluctantly that it was a "fraud" for three men to write in the same name 60 times in the poll books, Senator Tobey let go with both barrels, roared...
...Consumed with righteous indignation," Senator Tobey charged back to the U. S. Senate, where he demanded: "Is there a Hague-Washington axis? Who are Hague's friends in Washington who step in and attempt to suppress Federal agencies of investigation...
Committee Chairman Guy Mark Gillette (Democrat of Iowa) tried to explain that Senator Miller had had to resign because of his wife's illness. He had been unable to get anyone to fill his place. Roared Senator Tobey: "All through his career Hague seems to have been able to stop investigations just in the nick of time. But before God we're going to do our duty...