Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-26
COXMAY SUBMIT
STATEQU0TAST0
PROVE CHARGES
Democrats Point to Admis-
sion by Upham as .lndicat-
ing Big Fund.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.


PITTSBURGH. August 26.-Gov.
Cox has the political world wonder
ing today what proofs can be mar
shaled to support his charge that
SIS. 000,0 900 campaign fund was planned
by the republican party for this cam
paign.
There seems to be no doubt among
friends of Gov. Cox, especially E. H.
Moore. his pre-convention manager.
who arrived early today, that the
democratic nominee would show the
republicans had intended to win the
campaign by an extraordinary ex-
penditure of money. Indeed. the DEM
ocrats who got here in advance or
the governor pointed to the admis-
treasurer, that the republican quota
for New York state was $20OO.0O0
alone and Illinois 100000. Mr.. Up
ham insisted that this quota would
not be spent for the national ticket
alone, but for state and local cleo
party is interested. But the demo-
Gratis insist that therein lies the
whole controversy. Where does the
line begin and end between the ex-
penditures for a national and state
! ticket? Usually the political mass
all candidates and literature and
posters have often embraced national
and state tickets.
May Produce Quotas.
Plainly the whole case of Gov. Cox
rests upon the charge that the re-
puhlicans planned a fund of $4,000 900
for the whole campaign and that the
national organization set for the in
dividual states huge quotas, only a
~ nF irsI, q
| having been spent for the national
ticket.
What is suggested among the poll
ticians here is that Gov. Cox has
gotten hold of the quotas of the states
and that if New York was set at 81
10000 and Illinois at 100000 the total
Of all the states would easily make
the $15,0OO,OOO. Mr.. Upham, the re-
publican treasurer. insists, however.
that the total fund under those cal
culationS would be in the ne1ghDor-
hood of $500. 900.
OF course, all these sums were esti-
mates and very little money has
actually been received by either the
democratic or the republican national
committees thus far, most OF 1t being
lected less than $4,000 and their
effort is to make it just as hard for
the republicans to collect much more.
though the latter have admitted coll
Letting 100000 thus Tar.
EiRures Nothing New.
Gov. Cox in selecting the fifteen
million dollar figure as the basis Tor
his charge Of lavish expenditures Is
really not saying anything new. The
pointed to several newspaper articles
written as early as January OF this
year concerning republican finance
plans. One Of these articles was
seven-column affair in the Brooklyn
Eagle. with the streamer heading. ITO
dent in 1920. Will H. Hays. chairman
republican national committee. to col
lect and control greatest campaign
fund in American history"
The article itself is written by the
Washington correspondent of the
Brooklyn Eagle. who, the democrats
say, is an intimate friend of Will
Hays, and they a1lege the yarn came
from Hays himself It is illustrated
with pictures of Will Hays and Col.
William Boyce Thompson. chairman
Of the ways and means committee of
the republican financial organization.
The first two paragraphs Of the arti-
Gle are bound to play a part in the
question of proofs of Cox's charges.
Twice Mark Hanna Record.
This is the way it begins:
Sixteen million dollars may be sent in
the effort to elect a republican Presi-
dent of the United States this year.
The figure staggers the imagination
of most persons, who remember that
the average size of a national cam
paign fund runs in the neighborhood
of 100000 or $5.000,000. Yet re-
publicans are planning to get $l6.-
100000 into the war chest in this
years fight. 1t will be more than
twice as much as was spent under
the direction of Mark Hanna in 1896
to accomplish the election. of William
Mckinley, and the Hanna campaign
fund is generally credited with hold
ing the record.
I'm aiming at s1s.0o0.O0o the repub-
licans are not figuring to double or
treble the amount ordinarily spent
in national campaign, although
unquestionably they will spend far
more than ever before. They are
consolidating all campaign financial
activities in one huge fund. rather
than having the national committee
raise its own separate fund and all
the state and local committees con-
tinue on the old basis of making
their own collections =.
THE state committees are turning
over their subscription lists to the ma
tional committee. The latter plans to
receive all subscriptions. 1t will
hitherto subscribed only to state or
local campaign funds. County and
other local committees are expected
to fall into line with the national
committee plan. There will be one
great collection agency and one great
disbursing agency. .
Planned to Eliminate Waste.
by Capitalization Of finance the re-
publicans hope not only to eliminate
a great deal of waste that has charac-
n~s~ ~ or in, fhn aCf but to-
spend their campaign funds in a more
scientific manner and place it where
it will do the most good"
While the democrats were lombard
ing the republican finance plans, E.
Hudson, formerly editor of the
Liquor Dealers Journal, made public in
a telegram to Senator Kenyon, chair
man of the Senate investigating COM
mittee. charge that has been com
monty rumored in this section of
Pennsylvania, namely, that boot
leggers are obtaining whisky from
diatiNSrieS under medicinal permits