The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1920-09-24
PARTY PLEA TO SCHOOLS
COMMISSIONERS CLAYTON
BEFORE PROBE
Admits Government Publication
Used To Make Partisan
Appeals
rAssociated Press Dispatch. j

| WoSuinSton, OeptcmDers E0.-COm-
lete investigation of the financing OF
itte book, yRepublicanism In 1920
Up ibltshed by The Albany. NJ Y, Jour
tnll, was ordered today by the senate
lc impafgn investigating committee. w,
formally directed to produce the lists
% the book, although he contended
HAT the venture was q purely private
i commercial transaction and not prop
e. matter for Investigation by the
&C )mmittee.
Mr.. Barnes agreed to telegraph his
chfce for the data required and said
he hoped 1t could be furnished to tha
committee by Saturday.
Held Party Aid.
Senator Edge Of New Jersey said II
lad been unanimously decided that
he publication was republican prop.
aganda' and should be investigated
!, % tnat account Mr.. Barnes had tes-
y led that none OF the, funds derived
from the transaction had gone to the
republican national committee.
The witness could not state the In.
tai amount of sales received, and said
ne mad never seen the list of subscrib.
ers. subscriptions were obtained he
SAID, by Mr.. Young, q solicitor Of
special editions, who received from
nifty to fifty five per cent Of ths
amount collected as commission for
Mr.. Barnes denied fhat he had had
any conferences with Chairraan HAYS
- = ne REPUBLIC q<anittee.
sj,are5 NJ " liz pook; ana said he be-
Ileved; !Mr. Young had talked with Mr..
List of Amount Given
BEFORE tho rnrr, @,jffao ~,.rs--
announced, Senator Reed, democrat ~
missouri, questioned Mr.. Barnes He
read from the committee's record
made at Chicago, the language of the
reported subscription list. which saiS
nat the signers appreciated the ne.
cessity OF restoring the repubIican
party to power" and classed the boot
itself as militant republican nrona
ganda. John D. Rockefeller was
noted as signing q $1,000 subscrin.
ZION plank, ]. Leonard Replogle, one
, During the examination by Senator
aeed. Mr.. Barnes said there would be
he subscription list, which he aereed
10 send for and promised to teleera nh
Tor the copies Of letter of indorse-
ment OF the book written by Chairman
tors used. eoiici-
The witness said that only , Eoo
cNp1es of the book had been nrintoS
30 far. Senator Reed declarad ~
ought to be clearly understood" that
THIS was all that would be produced
It the witness demurred. More
" ould be printed. he said, IL paner
IDLY and printing difficulties per.
Mr. Barnes recalled later test,aoa
nat ne mad been informed by his bus
mess manager that s73.e75 was tha
total receiDts from subscrintiona to
the book "Republicanism In 1921.
claxton On GriddIe.
DR.. p. p. Claxton, Tinted Stotas
commissioner OF education, was uues-
tioned by the committee CONCERNING
an editorial about Governor Cox and
his interest in education which An.
peared In School Life" a govern
ment publication. The witness Az
planned that as soon as he saw the ed
itorfal he knew It was partisan and
had tried to stop It but found that
the EDITION already had been printed.
DE explained that the editor of the
publication was on vacation Ind de-
clared that School life" was "abso.
lutely nonpartisan."
Probe League Stand.
Replying to further Questions. the
commissioner said that "SchooI serv.
ice" another government mapazine
had been started during the war by
the committee on public information
and that funds for It were allotted ont
OF the presidents $4,000, 900 war fund
directly, to the department of the In
terror. The president, he said. nut the
under direction, more par
ticnlarly OF Herbert Kaufman"
The witness was asked IL this pub-
LEGATION carried on propaganda for the
League of Nations until Il was dis
continued last May, but he said he
was unable to state
sits purpose was chiefly, as un
derstand It," said DR.. Claxton, ito nut
teachers directly In touch with cur.
rent events during ana after the war;
New York. September 23.-George
White. chairman of the democratic
national committee, announced here
TODAY that the committee would raise
a 100000 national campaign fund.
Mr.. White said that a thousand
friends Of the League OF Nations
would be asked to follow the ex-
ample Of President Wilson and sub.
scribe $4,000 each to assure the sue
cess of the Cox Roosevelt ticket and
the league itself.
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