New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-10-08
$26,242.5O Paid Out bv
Flood Prevention Board
Observation-Disclosures
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Hypocrisy Is Barred
AT Senate Inquiry
$5,OO0NoteCivenbyC
ernor i'm 1916 Was Paid
by Metal Products Check
Special Disnotcl,to yho o,..,,

Special Dispatch to The Tribune
DAYTON, Ohio, Oct. 7.-Evidence
adduced at the first session in DAYTON
to-day Of the Senate sub committee in
vestlgating campaign expenditures cen.
tered around three revelations:
A note for $4,000, dated August 16.
1917, given by Governor Cox to the
City National Bank Of Dayton, and
paid on June 20, 1918, with a check
OF the Dayton Metal Products Com
pany for $5,o75, covering principal
and interest.
The payment of $26,242.5o on Feb
ruary 8, 1918 out of funds of the
Dayton Flood Prevention Committee
to reimburse men who had con-
trihutcd to Cox's 1916 gubcrnatorial
campaign.
The payment of expenses of three
temporary organizations which
boosted Cox in his 1916 campaign.
aggregating $4,000, by Adam
Schantz, former Dayton lawyer, out
of funds of which $4,000 was con-
trlbuted by the Dayton Metal
PRODUCTS Company, as representing
200 subscriptions of individuals.
he sworn reports filed under the
corrupt practices act hid the source
OF the money by listing Democratic
state, city and county employees as
the contributors
Hypocrisy Revealed
hypocrisy practiced in behalf If Gov
IN 1916 was revealed by Schantz, who
was examined on the stand bv Senator
Walter K. Edge, of New Jersey, Repub-
bean member Of the Subcommittee
senator Atlee Pomerene, of Ohio. is
the Democratic member.
Expense accounts filed under the cor
rupt practices act with the Secretary
OF State list the following three mush-
room organizations which lived only
through the 1916 campaigns:
forward Looking Association of
ONO, receipts, $l2,600; expenditures
S12 ,663.73.
Independent Voters League of cuya-
lures, SS,19l60
League for the Protection and Pre-
servation of the Workmen's Compensa-
lion Law, receipts, $1O,SOO; cxpendi-
lures, $4,000.
The Forward Looking Association re-
pert says that it was formed to support
Jo%' so does the Independent Voters
League report
The Workmen's Comnensat;on
League report says its purpose was to
preserve and protect the Ohio Com
act.
Schantz testified he gave to William
Mason for the Forward LOOKING AS
soclation, $4,000; to Gale HARTLEY for
the Independent Voters League, $500.
and to Morris Sloman, for the Work
mems Compensation League, SlO.4OO.
ochantz SAID he understood the organ
zatlons were to work toward flood pro
lection and in behalf of candidates
favorable to it.
Senator l/,se brought out on examin-
alton OF Schantz that although Schantz
.estifled he furnished nearly all the
funds spent by each association, their
sworn reports hid this by giving a list
u dummy contributors for each as
'ociatlon, the sums of money after the
names aggregating approximately in
each case the total Schantz said he
turned over for their operation.
The Dummy Contributors
The dummy contributors in each in
stance were largely Democratic state
county. city employees or ex-employ-
ers, although some brewers, saloon
keepers and attorneys were included.
Schantz said the $3l 600 he gave the
-hree leagues was raised as follows:
From Colonel Z. a. Deeds, II. T.. Tai
bott, c. f. kettcring, Walter kidder
and Schantz himself, $1,000 each;
from f. N. TAFT, $4,000.
Marvyn Scuddcr, New York account
ant, testified the Dayton Metal Prod
lcts Company, which owned the Day
ton Wright Airplane Company. paid
the contributions of $1,000 each for
Deeds, Talbot and Ketterng.
Deeds was one of the original incor-
oorators Of the Rayton-W Wright Air
blame Company, which was controlled
y the Metal Products Company. Tai
oott was president Of the Metal
Products Company and of the City Ma
lonal Bank OF Dayton. His son, NJ. T.
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