The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-10
HARTMAN TOLD
 R. s. LOVETT TEDDY
 ASKED FOR FUNDS
Scott Says He Talked to White House Over the Telephone in 1904, Which Voice Spoke of Get
 ting Funds From Mir.
 Hartman


 contributed S159,S3930 to aid in elect Ing his brother President in 1908 and that he had paid s2ls.59241 this year toward the expenses of gaining the Presidents renominatfon
 Consulting a memorandum book in which he had practically all items he ever spent for campaign purposes, Mir. Taft was on the point of telling the committee how much the nomination in 1908 had cost him when Chairman Clapp stated that the committee had no authority to investigate the pre- convention campaign of that year or funds used In the election now in pro- sress MT. Taft said his object in go- ing into the campaign was to see that ] if his brother was elected he should walk into the White House free of any monetary obligation to any indi- vidual great interest or corporation"
 Prepared to Go Limit 1 "On this basis" he added, T was prepared to go the limit. I believed my brother was admirably equipped for the position. l believed in his in- teerity, his feHrlessness and l believed no one could buldoze or use him. The principal thing to be obvlated was the influence of any candidate or any mon- etary interest
 Dan R. Hanna of Cleveland, packer of the Roosevelt forces in Ohio this year, followed MT Taft on the witness stand. He testified he gave sl77.o00 to the support of the Roosevelt campaign for nomination this year. Of this sum $50.O00 went to the Roosevelt nation- .,I l Brown. manager of the Roosevelt Ohio | campaign and another s77.0o0 to the work oi organization in Ohio Expenses of Che fight of Speaker Champ Clark for the democratic nom- inaton for the presidency were given by his manager former Senator Ned J. DuBos, as $50, 46S.50. Senator Will son of West Virginia was the heaviest contributor giving $10.700, and Will liam k. Hearst the next. with contri- buttons amounting to $500. The total contributions to the original Clark fund were s45.94s.9S.
 At the end of the Baltimore con- vention, said Senator Dubois, the Clark forces had deficit of si59o, SS000 of which was made up by Speaker Clark personally,
 The expense statements from Mir. Taft. MT. Hanna and the Clark manager were but part of an interesting day before the committee.
 Hartman Fund Up Again
 "rhe Hartman fund" incident of 1904 occupied the morning session. Judge Rob ert S. Lovett. chairman of the exeeu- tive committee of the Union Pacific and tafl dg hot Mr. Hartman repeatedly had told him that President Roosevelt asked him to so to Washington in october, 1901. and asked him to assist in getting funds to aid the New York republican state cam paign,
 Former Senator Scott of West Vir- ginia, connected with the national committee in 1904. said Chairman Cor telyou had declined his suggestion to go to "26 Broadway for more money. declaring that President Roosevelt did not want contributions from the stand ard oil interests. Senator Scott said he did not know of previous contri- button from a director of the company having been returned. He thought President Roosevelt had told him over the telephone that MT. Hartman is coming and I'll see if we can raise some money for the New York fight Other Witnesses Testify | Other witnesses included Matthew Hale of Massachusetts, who said the Roosevelt primary campaign In that | state this year cost S71 1.t36.5O. only s980270 of which was raised locally; | ". T. Mossman of Pittsburg who tes- tified that $671S3.79 had been spent by the Taft club of Plttsburg for the campaign in western Pennsylvania; C. B. Warren of Detroit who raised siS.- l935 for the Taft campaign in Michigan, Walter L. Brown of Toledo. Roosevelt manager in Ohio, who could not ac- count for about S65,000 of the $l27,000 which MT. Hanna said he gave for the Roosevelt campaign In that state. Mr. Brown said 1t had gone for "organiza- ton work that should not properly | be charged to the Roosevelt campaign. Tomorrow the committee will hear Charles D. Hilles chairman of the re- publican national committee and former secretary to President Taft, and John D. Archbold, president of the Standard oil company who testified in August that he gave s100.O0o 10 the Roosevelt fund in 904
 Charles r. Taft testified that tho $159,339.30 which the 1908 election cost him. was but a part of what he of- fered to aid his brother in securing the election. He gave to Chairman Frank H. Hitchcock of the national commit tee s271, ,97749, of which Mir. Hitchcock returned Sl50,000 that 1t had not been necessary to spend in the campaign. To II. A. Williams, who ran the Ohio campaign, he gave s44.92615; to Ar thur l. Vorys. si000. and for various other items, s739575.
 | Of the total amount he gave Chair man Hitchcock. sl5,0oo was spent for President Taft's expenses between tho date of election and his inauguration, March I, 1909
 Summarizing Expenditures | He Summarized his expenditures for the pre-convention campaign this year as follows:
 ! To Arthur l. vorys, for the Ohio campaign, s64.s00; to William B. Mo- Kinley for the national headquarters, S125, ,o00; various items. se3.792.41; a total of S213592,f1.
 | Mir. Taft occupied the stand but .
 
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