Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-05-31
.sLUsH FUND REVELATION
FATAL TO C. 0. P. BIG 4
Smashing Blow TO Chances for
Nomination OF Wood, johnson,
- Harding and Lowdcn.
JUDGE HUGHES LOOMS UP
Hurt by His Defense OF tho Dry
Law and Big Business, Wiscncrcs
Turn TO Senator Knox, Governor
Sproul and DIR. Nicholas Butler.
ny !. TRcDEnICI< 1,ssAny

ny J. FREDERICK 1:SSARY.
WASHINGTON. May 30--W / t Ii
presidential candidates. going to
smash as result OF the revelations
before the Senate Committee invcsti-
eating campaign collections and cx-
pendi,urcs, and with all the leading
Republican possibilities, more or less
bosmirchod upon the eve of the con-
Nention, party leaders are surveying
tho field once more for dark horse
The conviction is growing among
disintcrosted Republican party lead
crs that not one OF the active candi-
dates Will be able 20 qualify for the
termination, and that not one of
them. as matters now stand. can
make successful appeal to the con-
Nention, or to the country If nomi-
mated.
II is generally admitted here that
a new deal is imperative. The ac-
tive candidates. must be scrapped. II
is declared. No man who has been
the beneficiary of compromising OK
pcnditures in the convention
campaign. whether the money in
question came out OF his own pocket
or out Of the pockets OF rich friends
can seriously hope for convention
favor. This is true for the simple
reason that the Republicans dare not
go before the voters with candi-
date whose political integrity is not
above suspicion.
Inc same thing applies to the
Democratic ticket, OF course. The
only difference is that there does not
not appear to have been any high
financing in behalf of Democratic
e aspirants. One or two may have been
damaged by the exposures. but the
hESe slush funds and extravaEcn,
expenditures have been all on tho
Republican side of the fence.
II Wood and Lowden and Harding
many folks here now behave ,bc
nomineec VIII have TO come from tho
uhaiEowed group, such as Charles
Sn-o hughes, Senator, Knox. Governor
Nichc!as Murray Butler
If DR.. Butler had not come out
S SauhTy against his party on the
stronger position. but he has frank
~ pronounced himself In favor of
iight vines and beer and is the only
W Sspubb! ns ~ leader OF prominence
senator Knox becomes more dan
Eerous possibility each day. II he
G Gort DC assured Of the radical sup
position TO the Versailles treaty, he
might easily become the logical man
70 nominate, as he is conservative
enough to satisfy Republican bust
the language of big business"
Governor Sproul continues 10 loom
tor Pcnrose is said 10 be much strong
CIR Tor Sproul than for Knox and to
regard the Governor as 4 better vote
setter than the Senator. There is
n " in t1,n
ora which 1t would be necessary 10
explain or excuse.
Hughes Looms Up Again.
For, weeks Republican leaders have
AK. "a 80 quisiiy Of Charles f.. Hughes
event OF deadlock at Chicago, fol-
lowed by the nomination of a CONF
p pndonS,s sandidaie The former jurlst
tiEe. He has asuity that is undouSt-
ed. lie lost his fight in 1916. as is
now generally admitted, through
stupid biunderns on the part of his
lant Republican leaders seem to
nave lost their taste for Judge
Hughes: They no longer regard him
as a Moses 10 be called into the sit
uation after all other candidates have
been Killed off or committed suicide.
The answer is 10 he found in the
Yorker during recent months. There
actions from a Professional stand
point, bu; he his GeGo,nc associated
with causes before the courts which
seem 10 weaken him as a political
factor. lie accepted retainer at
the hands Of the drys, which he had
every right TO do, blu, in undertaking
this fight he invited opposition 10 his
nomination of a very serious sort
In the next place he accepted re-
tainer from Truman Newberry. the
Michigan Senator who now stands
convicted in the Federal courts OF
buying his seat in the Senate. and
that professional connection has not
added TO Judge Hughes political
availability. Again he has accepted
a retainer to defend the America n
Wooden Company. now under indict-
ment for profteer!ng. and there is
little political popularity for n law
yer defending a big corporation.
For weeks, TOO, Judge Hughes has
been seeking to have the Lever act
declared unconstitutional. and AT least
one judge, before whom he has APP
peared, has so held. This law is
about al! the legislation that now
stands between the American people
and unrestra!ned profiteeriug.
These facts are initiating against
Judge Hughes chances OF landing the
big DrlZ1 a Chirppp