The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-27
PRESENTS PROOF
 S15,000,000 FUND
 IS BEING RAISED
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| tContinued from Page Onc) )ding expressed his gratitude for "the enthusiasm shown" in raising the cam paign fund
 I That MT. Harding is acquainted even T with the details of the enterprise is evi- denced by subsequent passage" said Governor Cox. which is as follows;
 Through the ne work of your or ganization we are rearing trat form ot political patriotlsr, which expresses i,ssit IF support from every corrty every state. Therefore, want all members of INu'r organization 70 feel that their ei- 4 forts are essential to our success in plan n'ng for national enlightenment and deeply appreciated by me- "
 Governor Cox sad he depended wholly 1 for the purpose Of making proof of hls charges upon official documents whicn came from republican headquarters. He dh not plan to seTd his data to the Ser Tte campaign in yestigating committee, stating privately that the committe, could get it's infcrmaton on from his l. less tonight. Besides his statement On republican finances, which he prepared with great care today on the train CT. rt ute from Evansville Ind. and whic l ne read to his audience tonight, the dem ooratic candidate also discussed the | League or NallOnS ana lnduSlrldl PrOD- lems. urging settlement of strikes with out the bayonet.
 "The 'normalcy' voiced by their candf- date as visioned by his masters saii Governor Cox in t.sio connection, referring t.o Senator Harding, is bayonet at the factory door. unrectr aimed prohteerlng a.. the gates Of the farn-the burden of gov eInment on shoulders other than their own, and the federal reserve system an annex to big business. When the Amer ican people fully grasp the sinister men dce hanging over rem, they will snun it as plague"
 Returning to the campaign fund ques Ition, Governor Cox reminded his audience in order. he said, breach proper u'i- lderstanding, that recent contributions o' large sGn:s by business interests beSd1 In the case of Senator Newberry of Mich gan.
 lis present charges, the governor de- c ared, of fund -"so stupendous as to lexceed the realm of legitimate expense, mean but one g-imminent danger Il sr odious and corrupt campaign
 Senator Newberry, he continued, was convicted in a republican state and com- munity, befors T republican judge. grand and petit jurors.
 The Newperry charges, Governor Cox noted, also were denied. 'One would have thought" said the speaker, 'thai
 
 slraining influence subsequent events but the resolve of certain interests tc take over the affairs of our government ! amounts apparently to mania. Al | fected by the Newte erry episode money was spent after 1t was collected by bus mess interests in the pre-conventior campaigns in such sums that the whole country was shocked by the scandal Millions of dollars were expended in be- half of it's candidates
 "The Newberry affair and the prelim inaries to the national convention arc now admitted public facts They are re counted as first symptoms of an iniqui- tom political campaign system. Judgins the future by the past the people them selves must bring it to an end. Moth ing apparently. except the stiff shock o1 expressed public condemnation at the polls. will be effective, The Newberry lessons went unheeded behind presiden. tial candidates in the spring and early summer of 1920 and the admonitor which the multiplied circumstances ol the very recent past would ordinarily carry to the normal mind is insufficient to stay the hand Of greed and corruption which. it Is now my duty to expose.''
 PURELY BUSINESS
 1 Governor Cox recited how the repub lican ways and means committee wa. organized last December and it's work be said, was vigorously pushed from the very first" It's local chairmen, h, said. were business men. In most in stances very wealthy men" In thi connection he quoted from letter O John Kirby Jr., chairman of the Day 1 ton, Ohio, committee of February I 1 last, stating: This is a purely bust nessmen's movement"
 Tt took on the impetus of commer cial enthusiasm" Governor Cox con tinued. The philosophy running through all the literature is impas stoned with recurent terms of sales manship. The plan was not only tt organize every state, but every count, in the United States. Definite quota were established in precisely the sam manner as the Liberty loan campaign were conducted. population and banl 1 deposits apparently being the base o l calculations. In addition to the loca chairmen, state managers were en gagged.
 "Traveling representatives Op-
 erated between them and the com- munity organizations; salaries.
 running high ns five hundred
 dollars week and expenses have been paid in order to create and
 maintain enthusiasm and morale.
 An official documenfwas published.
 tnsneded. as 1t will later he shown. for the eyes exclusively of the men , md corporations who are a part of the movement,
 ; QUOTES FROM BULLETIN
 Governor Cox quoted at length fror many issues of the Upham Bulletin. The first issue of July IT. the candidat . said, contained this sentence:
 "NobOdy ia going to have any
 thing to do with this bulletin who 2 has not had actual experience in digging up money In the field"
 A statement by MT. Upham said
 that Senator Hardings election ] was the sjObv and involved "thc simplest principles of saIesmannhip,
 Knowledge of our goods. faith in
 our goods, tact and energy in pre-
 senting our goods" Governor Cox
 declared.
 Describing the /fund manager 9 money diggers," Governor Cox sai, II MT. Upham's assistants wereNHarry \ l Blair. Edwin L. Quarles. assistant | Mir. Blair; c. w. Lee. eastern divsio $ director; Henry F. Owen. central d ,. 1 vision director; Charles A. Mckean, = western director and E. G. Fitzgeral, V office manager
 r Governor Cox read bulletin statemer ! by MT. Blair that the efforts for fund il for forty-one states would be directe r from main headquarters
 Fer the present" said MT Blair , statement "our efforts will be directe :, primarily to procuring the quotas of tn ', larger cities. This does not mean tha ,, the present state and county organza f tions will be disturbed or retarded i