NEW JERSEY: Stentorian Dialogue

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.

Sallow face crimson, fists waving, Frank Hague yelled denials that there had been any ballot-box stuffing, fraudulent voting, terrorizing of voters in Hudson County. Sample lines from the script:

Hague: "You can't ....

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