The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-24
WOOD CAMP AICN
JUST like CIRCUS
CLAIMS WITNESS
Senate Probe Hears Statements
of Managers.
Hitchcock Declares New Jersey
Cost $4,000
CHARGE GROSS ExTRAVAGANCE
Eastern Manager for Johnson
Says S6S,13O Collected.
Woods Manager Admits Costs
"Unnecessarily Large"

Unnecessarily Large"
Washington. May 24.-Frank NJ.
Hitchcock, campaign manager for
Maj Gen. Leonard Wood was the first
witness called today by the senate
| Subcommittee investigating campaign
expenditures. Hitchcock said he
knew nothing about contributions to
Woods campaign fund and could only
TESTIFY as to expenditures in a general
way.
Hitchcock said $4,000 sent into
New Jersey from the national head
quarters of Woods campaign was the
largest amount spent from the fund
in any state. In Maryland. he said.
S12, 800 was spent but in most states
the allotment was less than $4,000.
| Some states got nothing, he said, cit
| ing New York. where, he said, local
contributions financed the campaign.
| In the New England states Hitchcock
testified the limit contributed to any
state from Woods national fund was
| $1,000.
Senator Reed, a Democratic member
of the investigating committee. halted
the questioning to demand the COM
mittee make a rule either to get spe-
cific testimony or to require a written
statement.
The Michigan campaign. Hitchcock
said. was financed by local people and
no money was spent from the national
funds. He could give no idea as to
how much was raised N Michigan and
| Wisconsin and nothing was sent from
national headquarters to Rhode Is
land, Connecticut or Delaware.
, Illinois and Ohio were financed
from western headquarters. Hitchcock
said. adding that he opposed contests
in both these states.
Hitchcock said he knew nothing
about disbursements from Chicago
headquarters.
The Dupont interests contributed
nothing to Woods campaign in Della
ware. Hitchcock declared.
. AS to Ohio, Hitchcock said big ex-
Expenditures were made but from the
! Chicago headquarters
: Hitchcock said he knew nothing
about the Wood publicity campaign
Chicago. Answering questions by
Senator Kenyon, Hitchcock denied he
had set up contesting delegations in
; southern states. land don't intend to-"
he added
Opposition Spent More
Hitchcock said reports from Geor-
gia that the Opposition" to Wood was
spending great deal OF money caused
Woods managers to send 0,OO0 into
that state. Pressed to tell who the
"opposition" was. he said ne did not
: know. but that it's leader was Henry
: Lincoln johnson, a nego politician
He said the so-called Wood deIega-
, ton in Mississippi was not a legally
elected one. and said that he had had
nothing to do with it for that reason.
Senator Reed wanted to know
) where "real headquarters are" and
! who had general direction and man
agement
Hitchcock replied that headquarters
| were where General Wood is" That
: is generally Chicago. he added.
t Senator Reed cross examined Hitch
i cock and asked about salaries paid
employees at Woods headquarters. the
$ number of employees. the size of head
, quarters, etc. Hitchcock declared he
did not know of any Of these things.
, Hitchcock said he knew the cam
/, paign, which consisted largely OF cir
/. cularizat ton of the country. was "un-
necessarily large"
1T was a mistake to have such ex-
tensive headquarters" he said "It
took all the money that was given"
Going back to specific contributions
from the Wood headquarters. to vari-
Gus states, Hitchcock listed the TO-
2 lowing:
e $4,000; Vermont, less than $4,000;
Pennsylvania. nothing: Connecticut.
nothing. and Rhode Island. nothing.
Reed asked how many paid work.
ers for Wood were sent out to travel
about the country Setting up fences
for Wood.
81 don't favor that so under me IL
wouldn't be done"
Was just Like Circus.
DR.. Randolph ]. Hersey. Wheeling.
w. Va. submitted a brief statement
Il of the expenses of Senator Howard
/, Sutherlands campaign. He said s473
l. was contributed and s445 of il spent
s for printing.
J. Hersey was questioned about Woods
4 expenditures in the state.
" We wouldn't have had to spend as
: much as we did IL it had not been for
= Woods INVASION" he said.
e Gross extravagance was INDUCED
e in on behalf of Wood. He came into
= the state just like a circus. They hired
,r bands and had private street cars ia
: carry Wood speakers from town 70
h town.
~ lJol1nsons eastern manager. was the
. next witness.
~ He submitted a list OF contributor
" and expenditures He said ths east
ern organization consisted of three
l. men, a woman and two stenographers
commissioner of California. had charg.
!, of western headquarters. The contri'
~ buttons, McSween said, totaled $6s.-
130. San Francisco headquarteri
y contributed $1,000.
70 McSween said he went to Mayol
al f--,-ra.. af ne.roit ara V1Ifarr
z. Flynn Of Pittsburgh. Wood support
v ier, and asked for money.
ig Disbursements for johnson hav,
amounted to $4,000. McSween said
% leaving about s3.100 unpaid
ts The New York campaign for John
i'll son, according to McSween. cost sl5.
1885; the New Jersey campaign. SIS.
ne POT: Maryland, $4.100; Indiana. 80.
r.e730; Montana 81 800: North Carolins
ce s2s00. Nothing was spent in Mime
e. sofa or Michigan. according to NC
sween's figures