The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-25
Indications All Point to
 Huge Fund By Republicans
Treasurer Upham, However Insists That It Will Be Levied on Pro Rata Basis on Party Men in Every State
 in the Union

ate. and who nourishes hope that he
 will yet be able to put through force bill
 respecting southern suffrage, heard Cox
 speak with that .cyncism which has be- come his most pronounced characteristic.
 Were the republicans as guilty as Ha-
 man, one, judging from the facial express
 sion of Lodge, would reach contrary conclusion.
 Cox" said he, will get his share of the investigation before the campaign IS over He will be tired of developments, too, I predict. l hope the Senate com n1ittee will continue its inquiry. At the present time it is bringing to light interesting facts regarding the precon- vention campaign of the Attorney Gen i, eral Now, you cannot heat a kettle by applying the flame to one side only. As the democratic kettle will be heated, the flame will be applied to all sides, and that of Cox will probably bring forth cry. It was rather thoughtful of LodgN to 1 hope the Senate committee would con true it's investigation" The committee 1 will unquestionably do so if Lodge, speak | ing for Penrose, directs. And unless he i does direct, the committee will not. ac- cording to the concensus Of opinion; or ! if for effect it does constitute to sit. fits 1 proceedings will be in the nature of in-
 nocuous routine.
 UPHAM IS SHOCKED 1 Fred w. Dpnam or OnlCdSO, d very iich
 and handsome man, is treasurer of the
 national committee of the republican party He is shocked that Governor Cox should have intimated a possibility on the l part of republican strategists to buy the purchaseable people of the United States. ! 'In view of the comparative purchasing power of a dollar today he stated with
 singular emphasis, i've will not raise as
 much money as was raised for Mc- 1 Kinley."
 1 The country has very fair idea of the amount that Mark Hanna produced to put Mckinley in the White House. But 1 Upham continued:
 l eve will not accept contributions in ex- cess of s1,000. Should very rich man l give us s20,0G0, why we would turn it back with disdain. We observed during the war that the people of the United States when aroused will contribute harvest I of dollars sufficient for any enterprise l however meritorious. In other days we depended on New York. Now. however i New Mexico, on a pro rata basis. Will | contribute as much as New York-
 RAISING THE COIN
 Whereupon, MT. Upham indicated that the republicans had assessed every repub- lican in the United States a certain sum of money He stated that southern repub- Iieans and southern states were assessed l just as other states of the union. As a matter of fact, he suggested that the t''e
 was ripe for the republicans to lead the southern states "out of the maze in wnicn l thev have been for many, many years. . But he spoke only in generalities. Hd did not state that as result of the repub- jlcan calculation they would need S3,0Oo . o0o. s5.O00.0oo or s10,0O0,o00. When it was suggested that if the assessments have been levied, he could declare the total, he replied in truth that the campaign was inst under way, and it couldn't be said how responsive the people would be to the republican appeal. But he was confi- dent that there would De money in sSs- ficient sum- And Governor Cox is ini- pressed that the republicans will not ~ast in this regard.
 1 The democrats at the present time esti- mate that they will need little more i than Senator Tewberry expended in se- curing senatorial seat in Michigan, to- ! wit, s3,500,00O.