Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-09-09
Assistant Treasurer of G.
@. p. Pleads Guilty to
Business Methods.
SUBSTITUTE OF
FORM 7O1 SHOWN
Witness Admits Intensive Drives
Were planned Not For Fifty Ont
Cities, But For Fifty-Four-News-
paper Correspondent Refuses to Di-
vulge Name Of Informant and Com
mitteesU phoIds Him.
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
Il Chicago, Sept. 9.-Charges by Gov
ernor Cox that the republicans had
fixed quotas and planned intensive
fund raising drives in at least fifty
one cities, and that the national
committee had part in assessing
the city quotas were admitted on the
stand before the senate investlgating
committee today by Harry NJ. Blair,
assistant to Fred w. Upham, repub-
Slican national treasurer.
4 Reading from document produced
by Mr.. Blair, which. he said, was sent
out in lieu OF the much discussed
4 form 101," Senator Reed brought
out that the treasurer's office planned
to organize drives in fifty -four cities,
three more than the Ohio governor
mentioned when he read his list Of
dfty-one at Pittsburgh.
B From the same document Senator
Reed read that the local chairman
appointed In each city was ITO accept
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IOur cities NJ. Flalr sald' was
lfound Impossible 70 carry out the
prosram because OF local conditions
an eome places. He mentioned Min
neapohs. 81, Paul, Dallas and Hous-
ton a cities where the drives were
abandoned because 1t was not ex-
pedient ne said. TO start them.
You did. tho. contemplate organic
inE drives N fifty-four cities?" Sen
ator Reed asked.
Yea. SIR
81. if Governor Cox or any other
man charges you had plans for or
sanisinE Is nfty- one cities. he simply
sunderstated, didn't he2"
I xee. Sir.
Senator Reed kept up his fire on
Ine Witness ana finally obtained as
sent 70 propositions that the national
ways and means committee appointed
the state chairman, then sent aid
workers to aid these chairmen, and
finally by taking money raised by
lthese agencies approved their acts
after q discussion Of quotas.
Mr.. Blair said he discouraged un-
.derwriting Of city quotas. and was
lnen asked 70 explain q nash from
tne neao. s'aea. IN u Aug. 10 Dulletlns, Which
sIateas
# Sancinnati business men have un-
80erwratten lsl Es' tnat clty's quo.1, the full
alnount Fo .loe delivered by Sept. l..
8 Expanded ruth
',ls tnat the TRUTH asked the SEN
ator.
consider; that Just y'bulP!" said
Mr.. Blair.
s What Is the difference between
'lbulp and 'truth'7" pressed the SEN
ator.
q 7" Bull isN expanded TRUTH de-
fined the witness, and the merrinnent
lasted until Senator Kenyon