The evening world., 1920-08-26
100000 FUND
FROM NEW YORK
IN cox CHARGES
Leaders at Pittsburgh for To
Nights Speech Forecast
Part of Proof.
G. Q. p. MAKES DEFENSE.
National Treasurer Asserts
Quotas Are Exclusively
for National Purposes.
BIZ Dapid Laurence.
Especial Correspondent Of The Eve
ninu Worldly


Especial Correspondent Of The Eve
ming Worldly
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Aug. 20 Copy |
right, 1s2O).-Gov. Cox has the po-
Htical world wondering to-day what
proofs can be marshalled TO support |
his charge that a Il5,OOO,ooO cam
paign fund was planned by the Re
publican Party for this campaign.
There seems 70 be no doubt among
friends of Gov. Cox, especially e. H.
Moore, his pre-conventlon manager,
who arrived early to-day, that the
Democratic nominee would show the
Republicans had intended to win the
campaign by an extraordinary expen-
diture of money Indeed the Demo-
Gratis who got here in advance Of the
Governor pointed to the admission by
Fred Uphan, the Republican treas
urer. that the Republican quota for
New York state was t3.o0o,OOo alone
and Illinois 100000.
Mr.. Upham has insisted that this
quota would not be spent for the
national ticket alone but for State
and local elections too in which the
Republican party Is interested.
But the Democrats Insist that there
in lies the whole controversy. Where
does the line begin and end between
the expenditures for q national and a
State ticket7 Usually the political
mass meetings have included speakers
for all candidates and literature and
posters have often embraced national
and state tickets.
REPUTED BASIS OF CHARGES
BY GOV. COX.
Plainly the whole case Of Gov. Cox
rests upon the charge that the Re-
publicans planned a fund OF S15,0OO.-
900 for the whole campaign and that
the national Organization set for the
Individual States huge quotas, only a
part OF which would be certified to
as having been spent for the nationa,
ticket.
What is suggested among the poll
ticians here Is that Gov. Cox has
gotten hold OF the quotas OF the
states, and that II New York was
set as 100000, Illinois at 100000,
the total Of all the States would easily
make the 415,OOO,oOo. Mr.. Upham,
the Republican treasurer. insists, how
ever, that the total fund under those
calculations would be in the neigh
borhood OF S7.5OO.OOO.
or course these sums were esti'
mates and very little money hai
actually been received by either th'
Democratic or the Republican Ma
uonal Committees thus far, most O
1t being in pledges. The Democrat'
have collected less than $4,000, ans
their effort is TO make Il Just a
hard for the Republicans to collec
much more. though the latter hav'
admitted collecting $780, 900 thus far
SOME OF THE CHARGES PRINT
ED MONTHS AGO.
Gov. Cox In selecting the SIS, 900, ,0c
figure as the basis for his charge o
lavish expendituresNis really not say
Ing anything new. The Democrat
here for the Cox speech pointed :
several newspaper articles written a
early as January Of this year con
cerning Republican finance plans. On
of these articles was a seven column
affair In the Brooklyn Eagle with tn
streamer heading TO Raise $4,000,
900 to elect G. o. p. President in 1924
, VIII NJ. Hays, Chairman Republica
National Committee, to collect an
control greatest campaign fund /
= American history" The article itsel
: 10 written by the Washington CORE
= spondent OF the Brooklyn Eagle whC
: the Democrats says is an intimat
3 friend of VIII Hays, and they allek
- the yarn came from Hays himscl
II Us illustrated with pictures OF WI
. Hays and Col. William Boyce ThomI
G son, Chairman OF the Ways an
4 Means Committee of the Republlca
n financial organization.
or The flrst two paragraphs OF the ar
ticlc are bound to play mart in tn
question Of proofs of Cox's charge
h This Is the way It begins:
'BlNtCen Wlllon uOllhrb may Dc
spent IN the effort to elect n Re-
publican President OF the United
States this year. The figure stag
q gers the Imagination OF most per-
y sons who remember that the
o average size Of a nationar cam
a paign fund runs in the neighbor-
IS hood OF four or five million dol
lars. Yet Republicans are plan
ming TO get sixteen millions into
the war chest in this years fight.
N IL will be more than twice as
"a much as was spent under the dl-
rection OF Mark Hanna in 1896 20
o. accomplish the election OF William
,I Mckinley, and the Hanna cam
"A paign FUND 10 generally credited
with holding the record"
z REPUBLICANS coNsoLipATIN
" ALL CAMPAIGN FUNDS.
i 'In aiming at $4,000, 900 the
lt Republicans are not figuring to
RI double or treble the amount
n ordinarily spent in a national
N campaign, although inquest on
j. ably they will spend far moro
/. than ever before. They are con-