Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-19
CONTRIBUTORS.
To 1904 Republican Cam
Daign Fund Secured
BY Senate Investigating CON-
miiiee- Mccormick Sensation.
Calls MIR. Miles " Liar and Charae-
ter Assassin " In Statement.

Washington, OCT. 1S.-F,or the first
time since lis investigation began. the
Senate campaign fund committee. to-
day. secured a copy o. a list of con-
ffihEt0Is 10 be mtlca- disputed 1891
Republican campaign fund. Elmer
Dover. who was secretary Of the 1904
Republican committee put the list in
evidence. saying 1t hst5 been copied
from TIE private memorandum book
of the late Cornelius =. Bliss, treas
urer Of the committee. He told the in
vestigators he believed that in many
instances the list was inaccurate and
ambiguous owing To typographical
errors. IT totalIed S2,2S0,0lS, and
showed practically all of the contribu-
tons 10 the 1904 fund, which have
been mentioned in the committees in
vestigation.
The list credited J. T. Morgan &
co. with two contributions, one Of
100000 and one Of $4,000 A contri-
button Of $100,0a0 appeared On the list
from II II. Il. and ). d. w" Mr..
Dover told the committee he suppos-
ed H. Fl. r." stood for. H. Il Rogers
of the Standard oil 90. and that the
j. d. w" was an error and should
have the Initials Of either iahn D.
Archbold or John -. Rockefeller. j.
H. Hartman was credited with $150.-
600 in two contributions. George, w.
Perkins appeared as giving s35, ZOO in
two contributions and the following
entries are on the list;
&c w. f.. $25 1000; SC. ". p, $780,
COO; and &c w. ?. committees $780,
ST ,tYsf-
ID w. p. committee, 100000" Geo.
j. Gould appeared IS giving $1Oo,0Oo.
The committee was given a shock
when MedllI Mccormick, appearing as
the first witness of the day, present
ed statement in the course Of which
he referred to Character assassirs
aud liars like Mr.. Hilles-men who BY
their falsehoods ineite weak-minded
men to actual assassination
Several members of the committee
rose in violent protest against this
language and il was finally eNpunged
from the record.
Mr. Mccormick testified To contrib
uting about Sfs,0o0 Ia the Roosevelt
pre-eonventiop campaign in Illinois.
The committee tried in vain to get
any information as to campaign con-
tributions from Col George Harvey Of
Harper's Weekly He said he knew
absolutely nothing of funds collected
or of attempts to collect funds or of
offers of funds to the Wilson pre-con-
yention campaign.
Washington, oct 1S.-Elmer E. Dow
Ell, secretary of the Republican Ma
tional committee in 1904, placed in ev-
idence before the Clapp committee, to-
day what he said was q list of con-
tributions to the committee, that year.
given by the late Cornelius n. Bliss.
# itemized contributions by T.. n.
Hartman. 100000; H. II. r." $780,
0G0; j. P Morgan & Co, $3.50, 600;
George j. Gould, 100000, and many
others
Dover said he had made his list
shortly after the close of the 1904
campaign from book which Mr..
Bliss let him see. Dover said his list
undoubtedly contained errors made in
copying, and that he never had COM
pared it with the original. The larg
est contributions down in the list
were Andrew Carnegie, $4,000; Geo.
]. Gould. $100,000; Roswell Miller,
$50, OO0: S. D. Wainwright, $4,000;
T.. II. Hartman, 100000: c. S. Mel
len. 100000 f. t. Stotesbury, Phila-
delphia, 5000; s. F. Wainwright.
$780, geo: S. j, Wainwright $4,000: C.
y. b., for p. r.. $500; G. v L. Mey-
er, $4,000: Fl. H. r.. and ]. d. w,
100000: r. S. Howes, International
Harvester Co, $4,000; e. r. stotcs-
bury, $20.000 d. w P. Committee.
500, 900: ]. p. Morgan & Co. $780,
O00 H. w Kendall. $4,000; Chaun-
cey M. DepeW, 100000: J. P. Nor
gan & Co, (additionaD $4,000; j.
Fl. Hyde, $25,000: J. f. Dryden. S25.
900, Adolphus w. Lewsohn. $4,000;
G. Y. r.. Never. 10000; G. & n. w.
Hughlin, Illinois, $4,000; Z. Il.