Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-10-11
mckinley Tells
OF TAFT FUND
DECLARES THE HEADoUAR7ERo
SPENT $4,000 FOR
~ DENOMINATION.
BROTHERS GAVE $3.50, 900.
Records Are Read from a Small Pen
ciIed memorandum contain
InQ Amounts-Doesn't
Know Total.

Washington, Oct. 9.-The sum 81
1866, 900, collected and spent in the
campaign for President Taft's renomi'
nation through his Washington head
luarters, was partially accounted fol
BY Representative William B. McKin'
ley of Illinois. the presidents cam
paign manager, in testimony before
The senate investigating committee.
Mr.. Mckinley said the Taft fam
ny," comprising Charles P. Taft, Hen
" w. Taft and Horace Taft, brothers
II the president. gave $15o,ooo. The
campaign, he declared, had cost i've
lines what was anticipated.
when we started out we expected
10 spend about $4,000" 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, $4,000; An.
lrew Carnegie, $4,000; E. T. Stoes.
bury. Philadelphia, $4,000; "Mr. Kel.
icy" and "Mr. Patton" of New York.
described as friends of the presi-
dent" $4,000; Richard Kerens, st.
Louis, ambassador to Austria-Hun.
gary, $4,000; Senator w. Murray
Crane, $4,000; Secretary Knox, $4,000;
Attorney General Wickersham, 1000;
.ormer Senator Nathan B. Scott.
1000, and A. G. James, $1,000.
Reads from Memorandum.
Mr.. McKinley's records were read
from a small penciled memorandum.
He told the committee they were all
he had to show for the handling Of
the fund, except books kept in the
headquarters that covered $4,000,
spent directly for ordinary campaign
purposes. Mr.. Mckinley declared his
memory was not good enough to re.
call all the purposes for which money
went out.
Does Not Know Total Amount.
Mr.. Mckinley said he did not know
the total amount that had been spent
for 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 particu.
lars. Charles P. Taft of Cincinnati
will appear before the committee to
Testify as to his contributions to the
presidents primary, and Charles D.
Hilles, now national chairman, and
formerly the presidents secretary,
will appear too The committee will
also hear Dan R. Hanna Of Cleveland
who gave about $4,000 to the Roose
velt fund this year.
Mr.. Mckinley. though sharply ques
toned by members of the committee
could give no information as to the
Taft funds raised in the states. He
declared he did not know even the
names of men in charge Of the affairs
in many states. The balance Of the
fund for which he had no records had
"dripped out" in the different state
campaigns. he said.
Contributions to State Campaigns.
The contributions to state cam
paigns by the Taft national head
quarters were given as follows:
West Virginia, $4,000; Maryland
$4,000 to $4,000; Ohio, $4,000; I'LL
ncis, $4,000; Maine, $4,000; Texas
$4,000; Indiana, $4,000; Iowa, $4,000
Kansas, $4,000; Kentucky, $4,000.
Mr.. Mckinley and Ormsby McHarg
the latter CONTEXT manager for Colone
Roosevelt in the primary fight, hell
the witness stand throughout the al
ternoon. Mr.. McHarg accounted TO
the expenditure of $4,000 or $4,000
by the Roosevelt committee in tn
southern states where contests wer
brought. He denied that any none,
had been spent to influence delegate
or that he knew of the use of an,
money in this way. either before o
ut the Chicago convention.