New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-02
DIXON STUNG;; WANTS
OLD PARTIES PROBED
To Demand That CIapp Commit
tee Ask Ryan, MCAdoO, Har-
yey, C. P. Taft and Hilles
About Funds.
FOREIGN PAPERS BOUGHT"
He Wants to Know Who Fur
nished the Money--Cortelyou
Will Explain Apparent Dis
crepancies, He Says.

crepancies, He Says.
II Senator Joseph NJ. Dixon carries out
the programme he outlined yesterday ne
viii warm things up IN Washington to-
day when he appears before the Senate
Committee to testify about Colonel Roose-
velts primary campaign. He thinks his
membership in the Senate Of the United
States will make II possible for him 10
demand that the Clapp committee ihVesr
tigate, and that Immediately, some one
else's campaign receipts and expenditures
besides Rooseyelts.
.I'm going TO make them call the man
ayers for all the other candidates In both
of the old parties" said he. The wilson
managers haven't printed a quarter Oh
what they received. Neither nave tho
Taft people. Why, they spent 81 for every
81 that we spent. and yet here they 70
centring this attack upon u.s.
IL want to know how much the wilson
managers spent, how much the Ciarh
managers spent. how much the Uhder-
wood managers spent. l want the mem
hers OF the committee 10 subpoena the OF
ecers OF the Southern Railroad and OF the
Seaboard Air Line and ask them no"
much those roads contributed 10 unoer-
woods campaign. I've got the facts;
know the man who tapped the TIL
Here's Charles r. Crane, Of Chicago
who contributed $1,000 TO Wilson's cam
nsign and 5000 10 La Follette's cam
paign. / know man in Philadelphia VINO
contributed $4,000 TO Wilson's pre-con'eh-
ton campaign and $4,000, all told.
why. dozens OF plutocrats are con-
,r,butIng 10 the campaign funds OF both
Taft and Wilson, and just because TWO
or three rich men choose 20 support us
they point the finger of scorn AT us' Al
the Harvester Trust McCormicks are LOT
Wilson. Yet nobody Is saying anything
about that.
I'm not going to let bunch OF cheaP
politicians get away with H. Inc Ohi'eu
states Senate is not going to prostitute "
self 10 attack one candidate. / want them
10 call Thomas T. Ryan McAdoo, George
Harvey, Charles r. Taft, Hilles and all
the rest OF them. II they don't III go
ING 10 convict them before the American
neople Of the cheapest, petty larceny po-
Itical game that has ever been played
81 want them TO call Harvey to ma
ont about wilson's campaign for Gov
crnor I'm New Jersey two years ago
Put Senator" some one protested
what has the United States senate got
70 do with n state campaign
Wen. they're lnquiring into Roosevelts
state urinary campaigns. don't see why
the state campaigns OF other candidates
shouldu't figure.
81 want them 10 call Senator Pomerene,
who IL n good friend Of mine, good TEL
low and a member OF the committee 10
testify about the New York men who con-
,rlbuted TO Judson Harmons campaign.
want them to call Louis Hammerling.
advertising manager Of the Standard Oh!
and American Tobacco, who has bought
up 242 foreign newspapers printed In THIS
country for Taft in the last two months
having as high as 5000 In one case,
understand
Il want 10 know where this money
came from and whether IL was paid out
through Hides or by somebody on the
outside. The contracts FORBID. these pa
pers, they say, to print even the ads Of
other candidates.
The committees game is to adjourn
lust as soon. a. they get all the Roose-
Welt testimony and take up the investi-
cation Of the other candidates after cleo
tom. The TAFT and wilson people are
centrlng their atta,k upon US. But I'm
gong TO drag the whole thing out into
the open and get n square DEAL
Senator Dixon was asked II he expect
ed to be disturbed by any question which
tho committee might ask him on the
stand.
There e. no question they can pos
sibly ask me that will embarrass me, "
he replied
George g. Cortelyou said yesterday
that he would explain to the Senate in
vestigating committee any apparent dis
cropancies between his statements and
those OF Cornelius n. Bliss, IT., son Of
the former Republican national treas
urer
But he said it was obvious that he
could not discuss these questions now,
simple as his explanations were. II IL
understood however. that the discrep-
ancy OF $500 600 between the figures fur
nished by the two men Is accounted for,
first, by the fact that Mr.. Cortelyou OBJ
tanned his information from statements
given out By Mr.. Bliss TO the newspa-
pers In 1906. Then the Arrangement
whereby the national committee re-
celved contributions. which II trans
mitted 70 state committees, reduced the
amount actually subscribed to the ma
tional campaign.
Lastly. the 100000 Mr.. Bllss said was
left over from 1900 was represented by a
surplus Of practically the same amount
at the end of 1904. so that the sum did
not increase the discrepancy.