The Sentinel=record., 1912-01-24
CHARGES BY
 CULBERSON
TEXAS SENATOR ACCUSES REpUs. LicAN ADMINISTRATION OF US
 ING FEDERAL PATRONAGE.
Says Ambassadorships We're 5artered for Campaign Support-R Roosevelt, He Says, Condoned the Use of
 Money in the Campaign.

WashlnGlou Jan. S6 6.~-i)emandlng an investigation into campaign ex- penditures in 1904 and 1908, Senator Culberson of Texas. in the senate to. day made sweeping charges of cor ruptica against the republican com mittees for those and other years In. directly. he charged that foreign am. bassadorships were bestowed as a re ward for campaign contributions and Inferendally he charged that former President Roosevelt had eondoned the use of money in politics.
 MT, Culberson's address was made in anticipation of al untavorahle re- port by the committee on contingent expenses of his resolution providing for an investigation He said the i'm itations of the proposed inquiry to 1904 should not be construed as con fessioa that there had not been i'm proper practrces before that period.
 Referring especially to the cam paign of 1908. Mir Culberson said the contributions to the democratic fund had been made by 7i.oo0 persons with g.. GOO as the largest. while those ot the republican fund were made by 12, $50 persons with Charles ? Taft brother of the republican presidential candidate at theiIa head with dona- tion of $1lOOO0 Among the contribu- tors mentioned were Ambassador Reid and Ambassador Kerens and Minister Larz Anderson.
 Mir Culberson FereTred to fhe fact that George P. Cortelyou, in the 1904 campaign. was chairman of the repub- { lican national committee while he was secretary of commerce and labor, and intlmated that Cortelyou had taken ad- vantage of the secrets of corporations whose affairs might be investigated un- der the federal law, to procure money for the campaign.
 Tt has been estimated,' he said, that the enormous and unconscion- able sum of $ll,0oo,0o0 was raised and probably expended that year by the committee of which he was chairman The very size and audacity of this fund, if approximately correct, smacks of extortion, profligacy and eontribu- tion. Who contributed and where did 1t come from?'
 -----Aft.-esstti,ctsen declared that there should be an inquiry to answer these questions
 He went into detail regarding the newspaper charge that the late E. Il . Hartman had raised the fund of s260,- GOO to which he himself had contribut- ed s50,00o in support of the republican ticket in the campaign of l90t He de. elared that within the past few weeks an effort had beea made to clear up this charge and added "this attempt to unload upon the dead the obliquy of this disgracefut transaction, which is said to have changed 50000 votes in the city of New York alone, may be significant in several ways t may be the common and ordinary case of malefactors waiting for the abscond. ing or death of the witness or 1t may pr&5age political movement of na- tional consequent magnitude.7
 Contending that his resolution did not go back of 1904, MT Culberson said this was due to the necessity of fixing a limit and was not because money had aot been corruptly nsed prior to that time In this connec ton he said;
 'Blen high in party councils, one of them afterwards attaining the vice presidency and then the presidency, laughed and rejolced Tn 1880 around the banquet board taat soap was potential in election t is well re- membered how James B. Foster. pres ident of the Republican League, in 1888, would have fried the fat out Of special and protected interests to force campaign contributions Honest and patriotic men will never cease to recall 4-t.etilii tic tic shame and modification l that with the g. notes Dudley fioaters wore organized into blocks of five in the election in Indiana in ahat year Nor have campaign ambassadorshlps been only recently measured by fat ! contributions, for the public revolt against Van Alen and Hyde Is fresh in the memory of the well Informed
 Tn response to questions from Sen ator Galliuger, Mi cuIberson said that the figures regarding campaign