The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-10-06
MORE WITNESSES
READY TO TESTIFY
Clapp Committee, Investigating
Campaign Funds, Arrange
Weeks Programme.
HILLES, McC0MBS, AND
CHARLES P. TAFT CALLED
Probe to Continue and to Go Into
All Contributions to
All Parties.
By JOSEPH p. AMIN.

| By JOSEPH p. AMIN.
Col. Theodore Roosevelt and his cam
paign manager. Senator Dixon, both of
whom charged In their testimony last
week that the Clapp committee Is ex-
pending too much time In investigating
the coloners various campaigns and too
little In probing those of other candidates,
should find little to criticise In the pro-
gramme mapped out for the next eight
days, as indicated In the list OF witnesses
announced yesterday by Chairman Clapp.
| The witnesses and the dates OF their
| appearance follow:
Monday-Charles r. Crane, OF Chicago.
who contributed to the preconvention
campaigns OF both La Toilette and Will
son: Charles Edward Russell. of New
York. who made public a report OF an
| alleged telephone conversation between
]. p. Morgan and the then President
Roosevelt: ]. ogden Mills, OF New York.
| supposed to have been a big contributor
| to the 1901 Roosevelt campaign; Mathew
Hale, OF Massachusetts, one OF the Bull
| Moose leaders; ex-senator Nathan B.
Scott. Of West Virginia, one OF the Taft
| organizers. and Louis N. Hammerling.
of New York, whom, Senator Dixon
charges, Is a representative OF the STAN
dard OIL and American Tobacco COM
panies, and whose name is attached to
the facsimile copy OF letter purport-
ing to buy the editorial policy OF a
Jewish daily publication in the interest
OF the Taft candidacy.
McHarg on Tuesday.
Tuesday-Ormsby McHarg. who man
aged the southern end Of the coloners
|pre-convention campaign. and then re-
fused to become a Bull Mooser; ex-Sen-
atn
ed to have been the real ,cause for the
collection of the $4,000 fund by z. H.
Hartman in 1904: William B. Mckinley,
who managed the Taft ,pre-convention
campaign this year. and National Com
mitteeman Lynch, OF Minnesota. a Will
son enthusiast. Mr.. Lynch may not
testify until Wednesday.
Wednesday-Judge r. S. Lovett, chair
man Of the board of the Union Pacific
Railroad. the Hartman Line, who is
said to have handled the checks for the
Hartman fund: Charles d. Hilles,
chairman Of the Republican National
Committee; and Charles P. Taft, brother
of the President. who is said to have
contributed $4,000 in 1905
Thursday-Josiah Quincy. a Massachu-
sets Democrat and a strong Wilson sup
porter, and possibly John d. Archbold,
vice president Of the Standard OIL Com
pany.
Friday-William s. Edwards, who hand
led the primary campaign in West Vir-
ginia for Col Roosevelt; Medill McCor-,
handled the Illinois primary campaign
for Col Roosevelt, and E. T. Stotes-
bury. Philadelphia banker and an as
sistant treasurer of the Republican Ma
tional Committee in 1904 and 1905.
Saturday-Democratic National Com
mitteeman Roger Sullivan, Of Illinois,
who will be asked TO tell what he knows
of the Parker and Bryan campaigns in
1904 and 1905. respectively. and the Will
son-Clark primary struggle in 1919.
McComb Next Week.
'Monday-Senator Bankhead, Of Ala
hama. who managed the Underwood
campaign this spring; Lieut.. Gov. Mich
OILS of Ohio. who will interrogate on the
source and disposition of the Harmon
funds. and William McComb, chairman
OF the Democratic National Committee
and preconvention manager for Wood
row Wilson.
preconventIon manager, probably will
appear before the committee one day
this week. and II is possible that John
pearance Thursday. Mr.. Archbold was
to have appeared Friday, but for reasons
which are not disclosed, the committee
decided not to-hear him on this date
and are now debating whether Mr.. Arch
bold shall be heard Thursday.
From the above list II will be seen
that the committee expects to hear this
week one or more of the leading figures
in all the primary campaigns of this
wear well -hn
been mentioned in one connection or
another by witnesses who testified last
week.
Senator Dixon, who kept the commit
tee room in an uproar during most of |
his time on the witness stand wednes- |
day, was particularly insstent that the |
begin at once probing the pre- |
convention campaigns Of this spring and
the Taft campaign of 1908. Among the |
men he was particularly anxious should |
be heard at once, were Crane, Bank |
head, Nichols. Mccomb. Taft, Hilles,
and Hammerling. All are in |
cluded in the above list.
Mr.. Dixon criticised the committee |
broadly. and Col. Roosevelt criticised it |
more tactfully for not having started |
the probe sooner. The programme for the |
next seven days, as shown above, indi- |
Gates that for one reason or another |
the committee will not again lay itself |
open to this criticism.
Little Real Progress.
As far as grinding out good campaign |
for use against any one candi-
date, the committee last week made lit
lie real progress. For instance it was
established through the testimony of |
George r. Sheldon. assistant treasurer
Of the Republican National Committee
In 1904, and treasurer in 1905,
that virtually three-fourths of the con-
tributions to the 1904 fund were from big I
among them 100000 each
from ]. P. Morgan. the Standard Oil
Company. H. c. ,Ftick. and George ].
Gould. and the next day Mr.. Morgan
testified that he had contributed an ad-
1itional $4,000 which had been intended
for use In the New York State cam
oaign in 1904. and which he supposed had
been set down as part Of the Hartman
fund, but no testimony was offered to
the Hartman claim that the