These small political tracts are Accessioned in the Old Collection for Newberry. This suggests that these items were original received by the Library during Newberry's 1918 campaign for the U.S. Senator seat for Michigan (opposite Henry Ford), and retained over the years for their historical value. Newberry was from Detroit, and became the U.S. Senator for Michigan in 1919, following William Alden Smith of Grand Rapids. In 1921 Newberry was tried and convicted (later overturned) of election irregularity at the primary level, due to the large amount of funds he spent on the election. Some of those funds may have gone to the preparation and distribution of the several tracts in this collection. Newberry's case is said to have led to revisions in 1925 of the Federal Corrupt Practice Act (1910).