Norwich bulletin., 1912-10-10
Contributions
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CHARLES P. TAFT DESIRED TO
 AID BROTHER
FREE FROM INFLUENCE
Says He Didn't Want President to Be Under Obligation to Corporate Interests--A Manly Statement.

Washington, Oct. 9.-Charles P. Taft of Cincinnati today told the senate committee investigating campaign funds that he contributed $159,339.30 to aid in electing his brother president in 1908; and that he had paid $213,592.1 this year toward the expenses of secur ing the presidents ren0mination at the Chicago convention.
 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 progress.
 To Avoid Corporate Obligation.
 MT. Taft said his object in going in- to the campaign was to see that if his brother was elected he should walk into the White house free of any mo- notary obligation to any individual, great interest or corporation"
 "On this basis" he added, T was prepared to go the limit. I believed my brother was admirably equipped for the position. I believed in his in tegrity, his fearlessness, and believed no one could bulldoze or use him. The principal thing to be obviated was the influence on any candidate of any monetary interest"
 Dan Hanna Gave S177, 900 for Roosevelt
 Dan R. Hanna of Cleveland, packer of the Roosevelt forces in Ohio this year, as the presidents brother was of the Taft forces, followed MT. Taft on the stand.
 He testified that he gave s177,00O to the support of the Roosevelt cam paign for nomination this year. Ot this sum, $50,000 went to the Roosevelt national committee; $50,000 to Walter Brown, manager of the Roosevelt OhlC campaign; and another $77,000 to the work of reorganization in Ohio.
 CIark's Campaign Cost $50,4es.5o.
 The expenses of the fight of Speaker Champ Clark for the democratic nomi- nation for the presidency was giver by his manager, former Senator Fre( T. Dubois, as $50,4ss.50. Senator Wat. son of West Virginia was the neavies SOAAlA AOoLOAG SAfih8 PAvft anu w HI lam R. Hearst the next with contri. buttons amounting to $S,500. The tota contributions to the original Clarl fund were $45.s4S9S. At the end O the Baltimore convention, said Sen. ator Dubois, the Clark forces had deficit of $4,5eo; sS,00O of which wal made up by Speaker Clark personally The expense statements from MT Taft. MT. Hanna and the Clark man ager, were but part of an interesting day before the committee.
 The Campaign in Msssaehusetts.
 Matthew Hale told the committee h. believed the Taft forces had spen much more in Massachusetts than tn Roosevelt forces. He said Edgar R Champlin had been the nominal heal of the Taft forces until "Congressmal Gardner came down and took charge. He volunteered other information about the Taft campaign and said tn greatest amounts had been spent il Fall River, New Bedford and Werees ter, and in Congressman Gardner own district, the Sixth, where Jehl Hays Hammond lives"
 T can't prove it, but | think the; spent much more than we did" h said. Our money was spent in edu eational work, rallies, literature an the like; while most of theirs wa spent in the last three weeks, afte Congressman Ga1dneE began te ge worried"
 Hartman Fund Incident. The Hartman fund incident ecou pied the morning session. Judge Rob | ert S. Lovett, chairman of the execu l tive committees of the Union Paeifi and Southern Pacific railroads, testi 1 led that Mir, Hartman had Fepeatedl ! teld hinA that President Roosevelt ask ed him te go to Washington in Oete | Der, 1904, and asked him to assist il 1 getting funds to aid the New Yer republican state campaign,
 Roosevelt Didn't Want Oil Trus Money.
 1 Former Senator Scott of West Vir | ginia, connected with the natlona 1 committee in 1904. said Chairman Cor 1 telyou had declined his suggestion t ! go to "26 Broadway" for more money declaring that President Roosevelt di not want contributions from the Stan dard oil interests. Senator Scott sal
 he did not know of previous contri button from a director of the compan l | President Roosevelt had told him owe | the telephone that MT. Hartman
 coming, and I'll see if. we can rais
 some money for the New York fight.
 Hanna's Money Used in Ohio.
 Dan R. Hanna said he became inter
 ested in Colonel Roosevelt fin tn
 spring of 1911.' He said he had nev
 CT been concerned in Senator LaFol
 lette's fight and had not discussed tn ! switch of LaFollette's progressiy | strength to Roosevelt.
 Mir Hanna said that he had n l knowledge of the purposes for whic l the money went.
 T cannot give you any information, 1 he said except that I don't thin
 outside of the money furnished muc i was spent in Ohio"
 Contributors to CIark's Fund.
 The contributions to Speaker Clark
 campaign fund, as given by Senate I Dubois, came from many sources. Tn
 more important contributions he nam
 ed in addition to W. R. Hearst an
 Senator Watson were Wilbur Marsl hWaterloo, Iowa, s2500, Senator Ston
 Missouri, s5200; and Judge J. w. Gi | rard, New York, S2500.
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