The Washington herald., 1912-10-08

aggregated only $3.50 10. while his con-
tributions to the Wilson fund amounted
to $1,000 In all. Mr.. Hannah. who gave
list Of receipts ana expenditures for
the La Toilette fund, substa inflated
Cranes story as to the amount given by
the latter to the Wisconsin progressive.
Conditions In New York.
Ogden 1. Mills. whose testimony con-
sumed about an hour in the afternoon.
told OF primary conditions in New York
City last spring. detailing q state OF
affairs which caused Senator Pomerene
to ask why the situation had not been
laid before the District Attorney.
Il believe the report has been made.
but election crimes are prosecuted laxily
in New York CITY, replied Mr.. Mills.
Chairman Clapp asked Mr.. Mills about
the Taft preconvention campaign in New
York last spring.
I'm the spring of this year." MIR. Min
replied. Il was treasurer Of the Repub-
lican County Committee Of the County
Of New York. As soon as II became ap-
parent that there was to be a primary
fight. I took the position that the party
funds in my possession belonged to all
Republicans in the county. and could not
therefore be used in the furtherance of
any one faction. and they were not 20
used in the primary fight OF March -.
with one exception. which included the
expenditure Of funds for an increase OF
office force. necessitated by the primary
fight. All the money expended by me
for the increase Of the office force was
received by the Eastern branch of the
National Taft Bureau
Mr. Mills then took up the charge
made by Eleon Hooker. treasurer Of the
National Progressive campaign fund,
that 30.Ia votes were cast for Roosevelt
in the primaries. but that only 1900
were recorded. He reviewed the condi-
tions existing prior to the election. and
added that reports had been made that
800 had been offered to a district cap
tain secretly to work for Roosevelt. and
that $50 additional was promised II the
district went for the Bull Moose candi-
date. He charged that Louis Friedel.
leader Of the Third Election District in
New York County. had sold out to the
Roosevelt men. and that he had ''deliv-
cred the goods this being one OF the
few that went for the Bull Moose cam
didate.
Voted ..Dead Ones.''
Mills then took up. district by district.
in New York City. charging that In each
the Roosevelt leaders had perpetrated
fraud. voting names Of men who had
moved or died. including one man. ac-
cording to Mills, who was having his leg
amputated In the hospital while his name
was being voted. In the Eighth District.
according to Mills. los names were voted
in the exact alphabetical order-the AS
voting ballots one to fifty. the BIS fol-
lowing. and the 106th vote being cast by
= man named Zucher.
The Roosevelt men, cannot say. were
responsible for this. except that they put
the primary fight in the hands Of men
who knew but one kind Of politics." Mills
said. 1T was commonly reported to me.
prior to the primaries. that one Repub-
lican leader had gone over to the Roose-
welt camp and was handling a large fund.
His name Is William Helpin. Of the Sew
enth Assembly District Of New York.
Former Senator Chauncey M. Depew, Of
New York: Representative William B.
Mckinley Of Illinois: Ormsby McHarE. Of
New York: former Senator Nathan B.
Scott. Of West Virginia. and Matthew
Hale. Of Boston. are the witnesses sched-
uled for to-day.