The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-07-08

AAiiSu vi OIIlIS llN
t In State of Georgia
Chicago, July S.-One million dollars
with which to further the campaign
of Major General Leonard Wood, for
the Republican nomination for presi-
Gent, was underwritten by group
Of New York men q year ago VIII
liam Loeb, eastern treasurer for
Wood, told the senate investigating
committee today.
The L0wden Expenditures
The senate committee investigating
expenditures Of candidates for presi.
dental nominations, turned its atten.
ton to the $4,000 payment said to
have been made by Lowden campaign
managers to Henry Lincoln Johnson,
Georgia national committeeman. John
son was the center Of a bitter con.
troverSy before the credentials com.
mittee Of the Republican national con.
ventior. While testifying before the
credentials committee he admitted the
money for campaign expenditures Of
Georgia.
Campaign acts Of Attorney General
a. Mitchell, Palmer, also will be in
vestigated.
Spent Ii "F'rankly"
u. W. Huckreide of Warrenton, Mo-
yesterday testified before the senate
committee investigating campaign ex-
penditures that he received 81 900
from f.. l.. Morse of Excelsior
Springs, and that he spent $500, Of
it "openly and frankly" to further
the interests Of Governor Frank o.
Lowden of Illinois. The other $500
was returned he said The money
was used chiefly for travelling expen.
ses, Huckriede declared.
Brutal Force and Suppression"
Chicago. July s. - The committee
strayed from the field Of campaign
expenditures while questioning Henry
Lincoln Johnson, Of Georgia, and dis
cussed subjects ranging from the per-
centage of negroes allowed to vote in
southern states to lynchings and their
causes.
Johnson told the committee that
S5 per cent Of the negroes were pre-.
vented from voting by brutal force
and suppression" He said the situa-
tion was summed up in the following
words, which he attributed to q
speech by Senator Hoke Smith:
I'm Georgia, no negro is fortunate
enough to vote, while no white man
Is too fortunate to vote"
Asked about lynchings in the south.
Johnson asserted the great trouble
was that white men were allowed to
attack negro girls without punishment.
Such state of affairs greatly aggra-
vated race feeling. he said.
He cited alleged instances Of white
soldiers attacking negro girls, during
the war, and said the soldiers. though
discovered went unpunished.
Johnson Elaborates
Negroes who have voted the repub-
lican ticket in Georgia have "disap-
peared" and have never been heard
of again, said Henry Lincoln John
son, chairman of the Georgia commit.
tee, told the senate committee investi-
eating campaign expenditures today.
The committee was questioning
Johnson about lynchngs in the south.
They don't lynch men for belonging
TO the republican party, do they?'
asked Senator Kenyon.
Lynched as Republicans"
"Oh. yes they do" Johnson replied
Many negro voting the republican
ticket has disappeared and no tidings
have ever been heard Of him"
In Dublin, Ca, during the precon-
vention campaign there was wild
use Of money" the witness asserted.
"I spent only $3.50 there" he er.
planned, but the other fellows spent
more than $4,000"
Wood Money Plentiful
''The other fellows" he said were
the representatives of Major General
Leonard Wood, while l was working
for myself for national committee.
man"
Asked il Wood supporters bought
delegates" Johnson said he did NOT
know, "but they passed out plenty
of jack to the boys"
Johnson declared that hackers OF
| General Wood spent around $50 900
in Georgia, while Lowden supporters
spent only $4,000"
Clark L. Grier. former postmaster
at Augusta, Ca, was the "pay-off
man" for the Wood people, he said.
adding that Grier worked under direc,
orders from Frank Hitchcock, former
postmaster general in the Roosevci,
cabinet.
Democrats Buy Negro Votes
Democrats paid from IS to $1,000 for
votes in Georgia, this year, and gen
orally spent more money than the re-
publicans," Johnson told the commit
tee. mot one cent given 10 me was
given to any delegate to the repub.
llcan natiorxl convention the witness
declared. He said he received 50, 900
from Illinois, but not from Cover.
nor Lowden himself"
He spent $1,000 or $4,000 Of his
own money he said, and $4,000 was
raised from other sources.
When the witness charged the dem.
ocrats had spent more money than hs
did and had bought votes In local cleo
tions, Senator Reed tdemocrat) inter.
dupted to ask
Neei $4,000 to Beat Democrats
you don't care when you get - ,ooe
do your"
mot a biz the witness replied,
but l would need about $4,000 10