Government officials asserted the testimony presented to the grand jury had revealed a political scandal that many in American annals. They said it extended from the most populous wards of Detroit to the Indian reservations on the shores of Lake Superior, where automobiles were voted according to the behest of the Newberry campaign organization.
It was alleged that voters were bribed, election boards corrupted, editors subsidized and moving picture theaters brought up in the endeavor to defeat Henry Ford, first in the primaries of both parties and later, when he had won the democratic nomination, in the election itself.
Officials were a bit secretive as to how the alleged conspiracy was uncovered, but a general outline of their methods was made available. A corps of investigators were sent into the state under the direction of Earl J. Houck who with Frank C. Dailey, special assistant to the attorney general, was a central figure in the election fraud cases of Terre Haute, Indianapolis, Evansville and Frankfort, Ind. These cases, beginning in 1915, resulted in some 200 convictions.
Dailey and Houck came to Michigan last August. Bank records were inspected and the visitors' lists of safely deposit vaults gone over. They visited "small fry" politicians first, offering them vague hints of what might come from a mythical campaign of a certain Michigan politician.
Small returns were followed by "confidential" comparisons with the Newberry campaign.
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