Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-10-09
FAMILY HEAVY CONTRIBUTORS
Three Brothers Pay Out Hundred
and Fiftv Thousand.
M'HARG TELLS OF ACTIVITIES
First Requested to Make Survey Of
the Country.
SPENDS MUCH MONEY IN SOUTH
lively with With Attorneys Who
Were Placed I'm Charge of
Local Cnmpaisns.

WASHINGTON. Oct. S.--The sum of
$265, 600 collected and spent in the cam
paign for President Taft's denomination
through his Washington headquarters,
was partially accounted for today by
Representative William b. Mckinley of
Illinois, the presidents campaign man
ager, in testimony before the senate in
vestigating committee. Mr.. Mckinley
said the Taft family, Comprising
Charles P. Taft. Henry w. Taft and
Horace Taft, brothers of the president,
gave $l50OOo. The campaign, he declared.
had cost five times what was anticipated.
When We started out we expected to
spend about $5OO0O." he told the commit
tee.
The other chief contributors to the
Taft fund, with the respective amounts,
as given by Mr.. Mckinley, were: John
Hays Hammond, $4,000: E. T. Stotesbury,
Philadelphia, $4,000; MIR. Kelsey" and
Mr. Patton" of New York, described as
friends of the president" $120OO Rich
ard Kerens, St. Louis, ambassador to
Austria Hungary, $500; Senator w. MUIR
ray Crane, $500; Secretary Knox $500;
Attorney Genera Wickersham, $1,000;
former Senator Nathan b Scott, $1,000;
A. C. James, $1,000.
Reads Memoranda.
McKinleys records were read from
small penciled memoranda, which he took
out Of trousers pocket He told the
committeethey were all he had to show
for the handling Of the big fund. except
books kept in the headquarters that COW
cred $4,000 spent directly for ordinary
campaign purposes.
Mckinley said he did not know the
total amount that had been spent for
President Taft in the entire campaign.
Mr.. Mckinley could give no informa-
ton as to the Taft unds raised in the
different states. He declared he did not
even know the names OF the men in.
charge of 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.
The contributions to state campaigns
by the Taft national headquarters were
given as follows; West Virginia, 5000;
Maryland. $4,000 to $1,000; Ohio, $4,000;
Illinois, si5.Ooos Maine, 5000; Texas. 5000;
Indiana $4,000; Iowa, 5000; Kansas, So
900, and Kentucky, $1,000.
AIcHarg on the stand.
Mr. Mckinley and Ormsby McHarg, the
latter contest manager for Colonel Roose-
welt in the primary fight held the wit
ness stand throughout the afternoon Mr..
McHarg accounted for the expenditure OF
$4,000 or $4,000 by the Roosevelt COM
mittee in the southern states, where con-
tests were brought. He denied that any
money had been spent to influence dele
gates or that he knew Of the use OF any
money in this way either before or at
the Chicago convention.
Mr.. Mckinley admitted that the Taft
campaign committee had paid the ex-
penses of delegates to the Chicago con-
yention, procedure that both ne and
Mr.. McHarg said had been long-stand-
ing custom
Asked as to how many delegates had
been provided for, he said he thought ex-
penses had been paid wherever dele
gate could not afford. to pay his own
way"
Do you know anything OF the use Of
money at the Chicago convention to
change delegadons?" asked Chairman
Clapp.
Nothing / would want to swear to"
Mr.. Mckinley said. smiling. Il have kept
out Of the Ananias club so far and
guess I will remain out"
Details of Money spent.
The detailed expenses at Washington
sworn to by Mckinley. in
cluded:
Printing and mailing literature. $4,000;
telephone and postage. N5.OO0:
buttons and Autographs, $4,000;
advertising and news service, $4,000;
speakers expenses, travelling and special
trains, $4,000; expenses Washington
headquarters, $4,000; Chicago headquar-
.ers, $1,000.
The cost of President Taft's campaign |
our to Ohio was borne by the campaign |
committee, he said
Mr.. Mckinley said no money was sent |
,y the Washington headquarters to Mas
,achusetts for the primary fight there.
Ormsby Mc1aIg said the preliminary |
work he did in behalf of Colonel Roose-
felt was undertaken at the request OF
William L. Ward of New York. who asked
lin to make survey of the country
o ascertain the sentiment of the people.
later, McHarg said, he took up the work
II organizing Roosevelt conventions in
he southern states.
He declared that his dealings had been
exclusively with local attorneys in the
ttaes who were placed in charge Of the
ocal campaigns for Roosevelt He said
Ie had paid out about $500 in Atlanta,
through W. j. Tilson; $500 in Florida,
through H. l.. Anderson; $500 in Mis-
ssippi, through W. z. Mollison and 8. D
redmond; $500 in Arkansas. through J.
/. Conner.
The total expenditures in Tennessee,
e said, had been about 5000; in Ken
ucky, $1,000: in Oklahoma, 5000; In vir-
nia, s1.Co0; South Carolina. $500. I'm
louisiana, he said, they took care Of
themselves"