Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-10-09
DECLARED THE TAFT FAMILY
ALONE GAVE $3.50, 900 TO
THE FUND.
HIS MEMORY Was POOR
Could Not Recall all the Purposes for
Which Money Was used--Pald
Delegates Expenses.

WASHINGTON, oct. S-The sum OF
s265.000 collected and spent in tho
campaign for President Taft's rrnom-
ination through his Washington head
quarters was partly accounted for to-
day by Representative VIM, b. Nc
Kinley of Illinois, the presidents cam
paign manager, in testimony before
the senate investigating committee.
Mr.. Mckinley said tho Taft fam.
ily," comprising Chas. p. Taft, Henry
w. Taft and Horace Taft. brothers Of
the president. gave sl50,0O0. The
campaign. he declared, had cost five
times what was anticipated.
when we started out. we expected
to spend about s50,O0O," he told the
committee.
The other chief contributors to the
Taft fund with the respective amounts
as given by Mr.. Mckinley, We're:
John Hays Hammond, $25. 900; An
drew Carnegie 5000; E. II. Stotes-
bury, Philadelphia. $4,000; Mr.. "Kel-
scy" and Mr.. Patton of New York,
friends Of the president, $12, 900; Rich
ard Kerens, st. Louis. ambassador to
Austria Hungary $4,000; Senator W,
Murray Crane $4,000 Secretary Knox
$2,5OO; Attorney General Wickersham
$1,000; Former Senator Nathan b.
Scott $1,000; A. c. James, $1,000.
Had Little Memorandum.
Mr.. McKlnley's records were read
from small penciled memorandums
which he dug out Of his trousers
pocket. He told the committee they
We're all he had to show for the hand
ling of the big funds, except books
kept In the headquarters that covered
700 spent directly for campaign
expenditures. Mr.. Mckinley declar-
ed his memory was not good enough
to recall all the purposes for which
money was spent.
81 always thought I had a good
memory until ! got into that mixup,"
he exclaimed, but l saw a new man
every five minutes in that whirl."
Mr. Mckinley said he did not know
the total amount that had been spent
por President Taft In the entire cam
paign.
The amounts given by the respective
members Of the Taft family were not
furnished by Mr.. Mckinley, nor did
the committee ask for further par
ticulars.
Chales Taft Today.
Charles Taft will appear before tho
committee tomorrow to testify, and
Chas. d. Hllles, now national chair
man. and formerly the presidents
secretary will appear Thursday. The
committee tomorrow will also ex-
anime Dan r. Hanna Of Cleveland.
who gave about $4,000 TO the Roose-
welt fund this year.
Mr., Mckinley, though sharply
questioned by members Of the
committee today, could give no IN
formation as to the Taft funds raised
in the different states. He declared
he did not even know the names Of |
men In charge of affairs In many
states. The balance of the big fund |
for which he had no records had |
"drlpped out In the diffenent state
he said. The contribu- |
tlons TO the state campaigns by the |
Taft national headquarters were Civ.
en- as follows:
West Virginia $4,000 MARYLAND |
10000 to $4,000; Ohio $4,000: IL
l'nois $4,000; Maine $4,000; Texas
$4,000; Indiana $4,000 Iowa 1000;
Kansas $4,000; Kentucky $4,000.
McIIarg on the Stand.
Mr. Mckinley and Ormsby McHarg.
the latter contest manager for Colonel |
Roosevelt In the primary fight, held |
the witness stand throughout the aft
ernoon. Mr.. McHarg accounted for
the expenditure of s25. 900 or $50, 900 !
by the Roosevelt committee in the
southern states where contests wero
brought. He denied that any money
had been spent to influence delegates,
or that he knew of the use of any
In this way either before or al
the Chicago convention.
Mr. Mckinley admitted that the
Taft campaign committee had paid
the expenses of delegates to the Chi
cago convention, n procedure that
both he and Mr.. McHarg said had
been "long standing custom" Asked
as to how many delegates had thus
been provided for he said he thought