The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-09-08
MONEY DIGGING
EVIDENCE SOUGHT
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and Blossom SAID the 3CleVelduu con
mittee had numbered twelve.
Form 1O1 fixed 5000 as the size
the prospect list for a city like CleV'
land. This was the number OF name
in the Cleveland list, Blossom said.
Estimating of the amount that
prospect should pay was done, jus
as suggested in the form. the vii
ness testified
Fred w. Upham. republican treas
urer, and Will HI. Hays, chairman
have repeatedly denied that form IL
or the plan it embodied was put
use.
Blossom said a cream list d
Il 600 prospects was made out Such
q list was mentioned in form 10l.
A flareup occurred when Reed
asked Blossom who suggested to hin,
the plan which TALES absolutely IN
almost every respect with form 1Ol.'
Senator Kenyon declared the ques-
ton unfair and Senator Edge backed
him up.
Reed said the republicans were
irving to caution the witness so he
would not answer frankly.
Blossom finally was permitted to
answer.
Blossom said he was not paid for
his work.
Representative Fess, Ohio, chair.
man of the congressional campaign
committee of the republican party,
addressed the first luncheon meeting.
Blossom said. but did not mention
money raising.
Senator Spencer said the essential
- 1n1 rnf roaH
Cleveland
Form 101 said subscriptions of
IS 900 and more should be obtained,
he said.
did you get any such"
sNone over $1,000" said Blossom.
Blossom said there were twenty
three or twenty-four subscriptions of
81 900. He denied in reply to Spen-
Ger that any effort was made to keep
the plan secret. After Blossom had
highly praised the plan, Senator
Pomerene asked:
WAS there any reason why the
republican national committee should
not have adopted the plan, or should
have tried to keep it secret?
mo reason l know Of"
District Attorney confers.
CHICAGO, Sept 8.-Charles F.
Clyne, United States district attorney
today conferred with E. H. Moore, per-
sonal representative of Governor Cox,
who appeared before the senate COM
mittee Investigating political campaign
expenditures.
Reports were circulated in the fed
eral building that Clyne was consid-
ering a federal investigation into al
legged conflicting testimony of some
witnesses appearing before the COM
mittee.
Clyne said he would make no state
ment regarding his plans before he
had opportunity of consulting with the
full committee conducting the investi-
CATION. He said he hoped to meet with
the committee following today's hear
ing.
The Moore-C lyne conference occur
red while Dudley s. Blossom, Cleve-
land, Ohio, was telling the committee
of the operation in that city Of e mon
ey raising plan which democratic
members of the committee said exact
" paralleled the Blair plan" as out
lined in circular known as form 101.
/ This is the plan which Chairman
Will Hays and Treasurer Upham OF
the republican national committee,
told the committee was rejected in
favor of the plan of decentralized Civ
ing evolved by Hays.
Blossom verified Governor Cox's
statement made in his Pittsburgh
speech that Cleveland's quota of the
republican fund was 100000. Bios
som said as a divisional director in
Cleveland, he was told by w. r
Woodford, county director, that the
county's quota was that amount
Following Blossoms testimony, Sen
ator Reed asked that Woodford be
called. Woodford, whom committee
members had been informed was il
Chicago, was not located Blossom
said Woodford had business which
made it impossible for him to attend
today.
Republican members of the inves
tigating committee today gave notice
that they will bare certain democratic
activities later when the committee
meets in the east Senator Edge o
New Jersey asked that William d
Jameson, a member of the democratic
finance organization, be recalled AM
that witnesses be called to tell abou