The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-10-10
RICH BROTHER
LIBERAL WITH
SURPLUS CASH
Charles P. Taft Tells Senate
Committee of Making Con-
tributions to Republican
Campaign Funds.
DAN HANNA BACKS
BULL MOOSE TICKET
Testifies to Have Expended
$4,000 SO Far in the Ef-
fort 10 Put Roosevelt
Over Third Time.

7 ASHlNGION, oct' '.-Charles
NM p. Taft OF Cincinnati today
WV told the senate committee in
vcstigating campaign funds
that he contributed Sl59,330 10 aid
in electing his brother, President
Taft, in 1905, and that he had paid
q $2l3,592 this year toward the expenses
of securing tho presidents renomina-
ton.
Consulting a memorandum book IN
which he had practically all items be
ever spent for campaign purposes,
the committee how much the nomlna-
tion in 1905 had cost him, when Chair
man Clapp said the committee had no
authority 10 investigate the pre-con'
vention campaign Of that year or funds
used in the election now in progress.
Mr Taft said his object in going
into the campaign was 70 see that n
walk into the White house free Of
any monetary obligation to any iudi.
vidual. great interest or corporation.
son this basis be added, 81 was
prepared to 90 the limit. believed
my brother was admirably equipped
for the position. ! believed in his in
tcgrity. his fearlessness. and be-
him The principal thing TO be OBJ.
waited was the influence of any candi-
date of any monetary interest.
Hannas Big Gift.
Dan r. Hanna Of Cleveland, hacker
of the Roosevelt forces in Ohio this
year. as the presidents brother was
of the Taft forces, followed Mr.. Taft
on the witness stand. He testified that
ne gave $lT7,o00 to the support Of the
Roosevelt campaign for nomination
this year. Of this SUM $4,000 went
to the Roosevelt national committee;
$4,000 TO Walter F. Brown, manager
OF the Roosevelt Ohio campaign, and
another $17 900 to the work Of re-
organization in Ohio.
The expenses of the fight of Speaker
Clark for the Democratic nomination
for the presidency were given by his
S50.16s. Senator Watson of West Vir- |
glnla was the heaviest contributor. !
giving $4,000, and William R. Hearst.
the next with contributions amounting
to s65oO.
The total contributions to the
original Clark fund were s45,94s. At
the end Of the Baltimore convention,
Senator Dubois said, the Clark forces
had deficit of $500, $4,000 Of which
was made up hv Speaker Clark per
sonalIv.
Lovett Testifies.
Judge Robert :. Lovett. chairman Of
the executive committee of the Union
Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads.
testified that Mr.. Hartman had re.
peatodly told him President Roosevelt
asked him to 60 to Washington in
October, 1904, and asked him to
Ef IN n.
York Republican state campaign.
Former Senator Scott of West Vir-
gina, connected with the national COM
mittee IN 1904, said Chairman Cortel.
YOU bad declined his suggestion to
60 to 20 Broadway for more money.
declaring that President Roosevelt did
not want contributions from the Stand.
ara oll interests. Senator Scott said
ne dld not know Of a previous eoutri.
button from a director of the com
pany having been returned He
thought President Roosevelt had told
him over telephone that "Mr. Harri.
man Is coming. and I'll see If we can
raise some money for the New York
6ght' ioiN
Other witnesses included Ms.tbo,
hale Of Massachusetts, who said ths
Roosevelt primary campaign in that
state this year cost s71 .436: W T
Nossman Of Pittsburg, who testified
that s61,ls3 had been spent hv ~.
Tart club of Pittsburg for the cam.
pslgn IN western Pennsylvania; c. q.
warren OF Detroit, who raised sls,o35
ISI Wa, tne Tart campaign in Michigan;
waiter l. Brown of Toledo. Roose'
vets manager in Ohio, who couId no,
account for about s65 900 Of the s1oS
ooO which Mr. Hartman said n.
gave for the Roosevelt campaign IN
that state. Mr. Brown said Il had
gone Tor organization work. tbat
7nould rot properly be charged 70 tho
Roosevelt campaign. " 'u'
Details Expenditures.
Charles P. Taft testified that the
!9'io9' which the 1905 election cost
MN was but part of what be offered
% aid his brother in securing tbs
Hitchcock of the national comn;4ta t1ian
S27l ,a77, Of which Mr.. HitrbcorL ~
'nrned sl50,o00 that il had not been
necessary 10 spend.
10 n. A. Williams, who ran the Ohio
ampaleu. ne gave so ,525; to Arthur
= Norys $1,000, and for various otb.r
items, s73a5. ''"e'
Mr. Taft summarized his expendi.
as follows: year
To Arthur /. Vorys, for the Ohio
campaign, S54, 500; TO William B, Nc
kinley, for the national headquarters,
slsS'ooo various items. soS,7e2;
Referring TO the 1905 election cam.
paign, Senator Pomerene wanted to
know If Mr.. Taft had underwritten,
certain expenditures in the New York
campaign with the undersfa ndinp that
the money was TO be repaid
no, there was no such understand