New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-24

Quoting ., IT a campaign Of propaganda to
Senator Kenyon.
YES" the witness replied.
do you receive any funds from the
Democratic National Committee for
carrying on this propaganda ?"
"No. 1t is the method followed by
the Scripps family to help Mr.. Cox.p
els there any special reason for this
service to Governor Cox?" Senator
Kenyon asked.
eyes. We want to see him elected
"Do you want to see him elected be-
cause you are under personal obliga-
tion to him?"
"None whatever"
Didn't Governor Cox have some
thing to do with securing your ex-
/, emption and that of your brother?'
Senator Kenyon insisted.
"Not that know" Mr.. Scripps re-
piled.
Got Away From Camp
He insisted chat he did not know
editor-in-chief Of the Scripps news
in Ohio, which is part of the
record in young Scripps' draft case,
until he read it in The New York
Tribune. He declared that if Gov
ernor Cox had not written the letter
the Scripps newspapers would abe for
him just as enthusiastically" as they
are now. He said that he was at
Camp Sherman, Ohio, when the Pres:
dents order reversing the draft
boards decision arrived
"They got you into camp and then
you got out AGAIN." Senator Reed in
quired.
II was at Camp Sherman ten days."
the witness said.
In reply to further questions, young
Scripps said he did not know whether
dered the draft boards decision re-
versed, but that he thought General
Crowder's Office had ordered it,
The position Of editorial director,
which Mr.. Scripps' now occupies, was
vacant from 1914 until be was given
the title in 1917, the witness told the
committee.
Asked whether he believed it was
more important to conduct propaganda
for the election of Governor Cox than
to have shouldered a gun during the
war, young Scripps replied:
II believe it is more important to do
this than to shoulder gun"
"But when you were exempted and
took this job was the time when they
needed men to shoulder guns" Senator
Reed said.
The witness fastened to say he meant
1t was more important, in his opinion,
to carry on his work than to shoulder
a gun now.
Members of the committee tried to
develop the fact that Governor Cox
notified the officers at Camp Sherman
that young Scripps was exempted, but
the witness declared he knew nothing
of such action.
s30,ooo,o00 Fund Reported
AT the conclusion of his testimony
young Scripps turned over to the com
mlttee letter he had received in which
it was declared that the Democrats
were being supported to the extent of
$50 100000 in the campaign. The com
mittee will make an effort to find the
author of the letter.
DR.. P. P. Claxton, United States Com
missioner of Education, testified that
ne had not intended to engage in par
.isan political propaganda when the
federal government publication. School
life, under his supervision, carried ar
lcles favoring the League Ct Nations.
DR.. Claxton was closely questioned
~ the committee, the Senators Ell
ieavoring to bring out the fact that
he publication of propaganda in |
school Life and other Federal govern
nent periodicals was being done at the
direction of the Democratic leaders.
Attention was called to the fact that
he periodicals never have carried |
paragraph in opposition to the League
# Nations.
William Barnes jr., of Albany, N. Y.
'esumed The stand to-day and denied
'mphatically that his book, Republi-
anism 1n 1920, was being published to |
over up Republican campaign con-
ributions.
Mr.. Barnes gave the committee de-
alis concerning publication of the |!
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