The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-29

 charges that Wood Is sustained by an unparallable campaign fund. and that the contributors thereof are war profiteers. who care little for money. but who are looking forward to legis- lation protecting their peculiar inter- ests. By inference he charges. too, that Governor Lowden. backed by his own and the Pullman millions, Is attempting to corrupt the electorate
 In this connection, 1t must be borne in mind, friends of General Wood and Governor Lowden contend, Senator Borah Is the spokesman for Senator Hiram Johnson in the absence of the California senator, and that he is az grieved by the indication that the Ida ho delegation, which he would like to control, will be instructed to support Wood in the convention.
 However that may be. 1t detracts nothing from the glee which democratic senators admit whenever Borah digs down into the vitals of Wood. or when Senator Moses. southern manager for Wood in retaliation digs down into the vitals of Woods jealous opponents. During these debates, which are con- fined to the republican side of the aisle. democratic senators sit mute and amused. and never interject a remark save when the republicans, in effort to involve democratic candidates in the same variety of mire, walk out of their own hemisphere.
 For instance. Senator Borah. in one of his remarkable phillipIcs, predicted that within ten days the public would be thrilled by revelations proving that two democratic aspirants were as guilty as Wood and Lowden. Instantly democrats asserted themselves. Sena- 4~ rrA.. A1 gested that inasmuch as the senator from Idaho had by innuendo indicted two democrats, he would certainly be bold enough ogive the public the ben eft of his information. He asked for names. Senator Borah, after demur- ring, refused, but promised, following pressure by Senator Ashurst, democrat, at more opportune time to name the men to whom he had reference.
 Although no attempt is made at pres ent by democrats to indict any special republican candidate, all of them ad- init that there is little doubt but that the republicans are endeavoring to buy the presidency. Democrats declare them all equally guilty. They assert that those republican candidates who have not spent as much money as Wood and Lowden, are simply handicapped through lack of funds. They declare the republicans, as result of their stay in the woodshed" for eight years are as hungry for political pie as a winter wolf for spring lamb, and that each, in effort to secure the most ad- vantageous place at the trough, Is not hesitating to cut the throat of his Eeighbor.
 As hitherto pointed out in this cor- respondence, the conviction of Senator Newberry of having spent a barrel of money in Michigan. has drawn atten- tion to the candidates for all federal office throughout the United States. especially to those who have no excuse for running save an abundance of money and desire for an opportunity to spend 1t handsomely in the glanlor of high office to which their merits would give them no right to aspire. f But despite the general knowledge that Woods management lis guilty of having expepnded money, though his management claims the expenditure has been legitimate, the diatribe of Sem ator Borah is regarded more as a po- litical move in favor of Senator John son than as an utilitarian effort to save the honor of the American electorate.
 The speed with which Wood runs. has rendered his opponents and their spon- sors desperate.