The Washington times., 1912-10-14
HEAD OF TRUST
GAVE $l2,5OO
TO WILSON FUND
Governors Manager Admits
Harvester Company
Helped Campaign.
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Perkins, Robert Bacon, Charles r.
Brooker. and Daniel. q. Reid. Those
We're. the names Judge Parker could
recall.
McCombs was nrst on the stand. lie
said he knew nothing of 1901 or 1908
r,,nt, contributions; ms lie 1T stated before pre-
that the campaign to nominate Wilson
was begun by himself In May, 1911. lie
bore all OF the expenses of the cam
paiGn and ran most OF the work from
his personal offices and apartment in
New York for two or three months.
Established a Bureau.
'During the first week in June. 1911,
as recall" he said, 81, established a
bureau for sending out literature
about Woodrow Wilson. and COM
menced a very large correspondence
all over the country with leaders with
reference to him. My. expenditures in
this way covered about $4,000. as
shown by the expenditure sheet.
II received a number OF checks after
the Baltimore convention, which were
turned over to the Democratic ma
urer was appointed"
He then gave the list OF contrbu-
tiSns nsoo,o footing up to dSs.iS,,,a, siSs5SSSi
Frederic G. Penfeld. he said It was
in lieu of services, as Mr.. Penheld
was going to Europe: He said he
was. was respon.sibdle dso for all the contribu-
II wrote to Mr.. Pen6eld on the Nile,
and he sent me 5000 In addition to
$4,000 previously sent. The campaign
was often In financial difficulties.
The campaign was not financed by
any of the States" said McCombs. SUBJ
mitting detailed account OF the en-
tire Wilson expenses aggregatins $685.
isSoe. deficit Of unpaid bills amount
"The list included practically all OF
the money In the entire country. ex-
cept that raised by the local State COM
mittees," added McCombs.
McCombs gave the names of Wilson
leaders In various States who would
know Of expenditures
Who Gave Money.
Senator Oliver asked McCombs re-
gardIng a contribution Of $500 raised
ny Cleveland II. Dodge and other
Princetonians.
"Mr. Dodge was a close friend OF
Governor Wilson," said McCombs He
advised me by letter that the contribu-
tors to his fund were Cyrus II. McCor-
mick, sl2,oo0; Cleveland II. Dodge, s5l,-
800; Thomas ID. Jones. $l0,5oC: David B.
Jones; slo'5oo and Edward w. Sheldon.
Morgenthau, New York realty
each. McCombs said.
A. ]. Elkins. who gave s12.500. is
an associate of MorgenthGu.
II first obtained informntio through
Rabbi Wise. of New York" said Me.
Combs. that Mr.. Morgenthau was a
strong supporter Of Governor Wilson.
Cyrus McCohmick Is in the harvester
business. Mr.. Dodge called on his
friend for money: I think he first
told me he would raise s17.50O II I
SSuid TS raise like sum, which we did.
$4,000 in debt, personally. last Feeb-
ruary. Again after the Illinois cam
patgn ] was In debt again. and Mr..
Comrick was a lifelong friend and
class mate of Governor Wilson So
was Mr.. Dodge"
Thomas and David b. Jones were
said McCombs. They gave sl0,50O ca ch
to Mr.. Dodge.
The deficit OF $4,000 I was to have
met" added the Democratic chairman.
contributions myself" the witness de-
clared: That in large way was IN"
way the Wilson campaign was hnanced
No Promises Reflected.
There is not dollar OF that state
nent that reflects IA promise. expressed
or implied" McCombs continued EN-
phatically. Mr.. Mccormick contribut-
uted as he would to Governor Wilson
rs president Of Princeton University"
There are no strings or pledges to
any OF these contributions asked
Senator Pomerene.
mot to one" McCombs answered Wig
orously.
In PENNSYLVANIA " continued Nc
Combs, they took car" Of the cam-
palgn themselves-the Wilson men We
sent only $50 to Chicago for or3anIza-
tioon purposes and only 5000 NOR. to
; .he State for the primary night because
we had no hope of carving It for Gov
ernor Wilson.
Speaker clark got It by 10000"
Mr.. McCombs appeared especially
rolicitous to give the committee the
impression that the contribution OF
ted was connected with the Harvester
trust, was made because he and Gov
crnor Wilson were old classmates. He
went into detail In explaining how
OBvcrnor Wilson had tried to Dem
ocratize" or Dopularize Princeton. He
said he would withdraw the word
"democratize" as there seemed to b.
some objection to It, He emphasized
that Mccormick had always backed
Wilson in this movement.
Publicity Chief Items.
In the list of expenditures the chief
items were for publicity. Mr.. Nc
Combs said the principal work to be
done before the convention was in the
way OF publicity, because Governor VIII
son ndu Hltle poiltlChl acquaintance
and 1t was necessary to GIT the Ameri-
can people acquainted with him
The expenditures statement showed
the sums sent to the various States.
Some of these sums We're extremely low
For instance, the statement showed but
$1,000 was sent to Illinois Senator
Clapp tried to get the witness to admit
that there We're additional sums used
In Illinois locally. McCombs insisted he
know Of none. and said:
my friends inform me that Is all
that was spent"
He explained further that he had no
hope OF carrying Illinois in the pre-
convention fight for Wilson. and so
made no effort to put money there OF
organize there.
In New Jersey he admitted the local
people had spent money which did not
pass through his hands.
The complete list of contributions
was:
Willard salisbury, $3.50; w. w. Smith
SO; Hugh McRae. $3.50: Josiah Hill
$3.50 railroad refund, travelling. s42.06
Frederic C. Penfield. $1,000; f. ]. Mac.
CURE. $50; B. p. NJ. Cunester, $40: Rob.
ert NJ. Heath, so; Cook conklng; $40
William F. McCombs $4,000: William
i. McCombs. $1,000; John T. Collins
SO: William Weiss, 500: Charles N
Smith 81 900; Charles j. Miller 500: ]