The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-05
HAYS DELIBERATELY SWORE FALSEHOOD. IS CHARGE OF COX
Committed Perjury When He ssWore Before Senate Com mittee No Quota Existed,
 Says Candidate


 Will H. Hays, republican na-
 'tional chairman had "delib- 1, ,4erately perpetrated a false l hood under oath" in Chicago,
 at the Senate committee's in- svestigation of republican con- |t tributions.
 lH The governors charge elimination lf or bitter partisan controversy over If campaign financing, was delivered at Nne state fairgrounds this afternoon tn one of seven speeches he made dur A2g the days tour of Wisconsin
 o o1a<Sstence of the alleged republican R tIe fta" of SS,145, 900 for fifty-one large o AY Es, charged by Governor Cox last fr loay at, Pittsburg, was the basis of al ooayss assertions by the governor. llN "Mr. Hays has denied that there sY 1s any quOta," said the governor. q Y charge that there is quota. I charse, furthermore, that MT. Hays VI deliberately perpetrated false hood under oath at Chicago when he said there was not quota" |- Governor Cox followed this declara- IN ton with an assertion that confer |>ence arranged today at Marion, O., by |M Sehatcr Harding. his republican oppo- |K rent, with members of the republican |R ways and means, or finance, commit M tee, had been postponed because, the |S governor declared, he had exposed |p tnis plot to buy the presidency of the M United States"
 M Few in the fairgrounds audience N heard the governors charge against M the republican leader because of con- 'l fusion at the conclusion of the can i oldate's address when he launched his s,bolt,
 The republican war chest and the 7. A nf N~,t tfDx I- part of nearly all of Governor Cox's Igaddress here today.
 M MAKES FIVE SPEECHES
 After rear platform speeches at N kenosha and Racine, the governor de- L 1vered five here. He discussed labor l problems and the league with an audi
 ence of laboring men shortly after his
 arrival. then made his fairgrounds K speech, rested a few hours at the Mill | waukee Athletic Club. held an informal l reception at the City Press Club and X received democratic womens delega- Is ton at a dinner and spoke at &ban- X euet. He closed his visit tonight with N public address at Plankington Hall N auditorium and an address to brother H Elks here for 8 carnival. The governor left late tonight for M Chicago, where he will rest over Sum- Y day and on Monday visit Minneapolis N and St. Paul. and make several ad-
 dresses, including one at the Minnesota State Fair.
 Besides his charge against MT Hays, l Governor Cox in most of his addresses here nayed the rSenate oligarchy." k criticizing Senator Harding again aa-
 ''reactionary" and declared that, if the campaign fund charges were true, Fred W. Uphsm. republican treasurer, R should be busted by Chairman Hays.
 In his fair speech leading up to his 2 charge against MT. Hays, Governor Cox la said:
 Mfr. Hays says that quotas have not N been established. There is not a man N or woman here who does not believe \ that quotas are being established" Treasurer Upham says they are be- N ing established"
 I HAS THE PROOF T have here" the governor continued N pulling "a bunch of papers from his ls breast pocket and waving them at the la crowd documents issued from the na- VI tionaf~ republican committee with in n structions to the money diggers,' as N they themselves have been called by K Treasurer Upham, to see to it that pa A pers left on tables after luncheons shall be destroyed in order that nobody lmay know what is going on."
 Producing copies of the Official Bull vletin, of the republican treasury, which The read at Pittsburg and other cities N recently, and which figured in the Sem Nate inquiry, Governor Cox proceeded: N Tn the first line of the Official Bull Eletin it says that this Bulletin is of Hfictal' and in another part it says that 1.-the quotas were understood by Chair Mman Hays at the outset" N 'Tt says" the governor continued H without reading, that the amounts Hsought in each community are part of the campaign of general subscription Has originally initiated by Will H. Hays Hand carried through by the treasurer's K office. and that the whole programme His now nearing completion" Like his experience with a large out Mdoor audience at Gravesend race track, NNew York. week ago today, the gov Nernor, who had devoted most of his Estate fair address to the league, was Eforced to quit because of shouts and Hroars from the crowd.
 M Some, unable to hear, beckoned and | ushouted for the candidate to proceed; Mothers shouted for the fair events to Iatart, and in the bedlam of confusion 1.-the governor. after fighting the noise IJuntil he made his charge against MT. iIHays, closed with smile and friendly lIadieu.
 III That ''big business interests were con Itributing to the republican cause in the Ialleged attempt to buy the presidency"  tduring the day.
 The league was champoned by the Igoyernor fin almost every address today. He repeated his array of arguments, de- 1claring that it would insure world peace land International disarmament. make for |nmaterial reconstruction and stability &throughout the world.
 "I deny" he said, that America is 1 not interested in European affairs
 Telling of starvation throughout Flu
 rope. the governor said
 "Are we selfishly to deny support to
 policy of helpfulness?"
 To league critics who express fear that
 American youths would be embroiled in | European conflicts. Governor Cox again uimputed insincerity and a plan to be Hog the issues" He declared that the mine months time provided under the Ihearue for arbitration and counsel
 would be an almost certain guarantee uarainst war The economic boycott, he Ialso said, would prove a prompt finale Xof war
 Reasserting that Congress only has mower to declare war. Governor, Cox Characterized as fairy tales the oppo- Irition argument that the league would (unlace Am ericans in foreign conflict. You can't establish any treaty or any |Nlea que" he said, that runs counter to 1.-the constitution"
 Governor Cox called upon Senator. Har- |Iding for an unequvocal statement of his >ace plans, charging again that the re-
 N Ncan candidate had taken several dis-
 felxht positions. He also accused the
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