The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-09
Assistant Treasurer Declares
Party Should Pay Gov. Cox.
Subscriptions to Campaign Fund
Are Pouring in Now.
ALL WORKERS PUSH DRIVE
Sees No Reason Why G. o. P.
Should SIacken Campaign.
Tells Complete Plans on the
Witness Stand Today.

Chicago, Sept 9-Resuming ex-
animation Of Harry NJ. Blair. assistant
treasurer of the Republican national
committee, today in the senate inyesti-
cation of campaign funds. Senator
Reed questioned Blair about the plan
for getting funds in the large cities of
the country.
Reed attempted to prove by Blair
the truth of Governor Cox's charges
that exact quotas were fixed for more
than fifty cities Cox, in his Pitts
burgh speech, read a list of fifty-one
city quotas totalling SS.145,00 In
one of these. $4,000 for Cleveland,
o, was admitted yesterday by Dudley
S. Blossom.
Secrets Kept Prom Democrats.
Reed asked concerning a document
submitted by Blair marked "confiden-
tial information for regional and state
chairmen." Blair said the instructions
it contained for organization money
raising campaigns were confidential
but not secret.
when it was issued last November
we did not want the opposition to
know all we were doing" said Blair.
But l don't want anybody to have
the impression that there was any
thing wrong, sinister or untoward in
that bulletin. I don't want to be al
ways in the position of playing the
game under the table"
Reed called attentions to repeated
admoritions to the workers against
certain forms of publicity and asked
why they were issued. Blair countered
with copy of the official bulletin
urging workers to give local publicity
TO the money raising campaign.
Those instructions were issued after
YOU knew the investigation had been
ordered and the facts brought out,
Reed said,
wanted Plan Published.
Blair declared he didn't know about
the senate investigation when he urged
publicity be given the plan Reed
asked whether Blair intended to put
on a last minute drive for funds IT.
the closing days of the campaign.
we had planned a last week drive
for 81 subscriptions" he sand, but it
wasn't adopted"
Reading from form 1O2. the cam
paign plan for big cities, Reed asked
whether a big September effort was to
be made.
I had a very elaborate plan" said
Blair. but it was rejected because
William Boyce Thompson. chairman
of the national ways and means COM
mittee. insisted the plan not be used
in the seven eastern states he con-
trolled.
without those states I felt the plan
could not work successfully"
The states Blair referred to were
Pennsylvania New York. Maryland.
Delaware Connecticut. Rhode Island
and the District of Columbia
In these seven states are about 35
per cent of the good prospects" said
Blair. That is why the plan was inn
practical with them OUT
Names Paid Field Men.
IL
field men assigned to work in city and
state campaigns. In Illinois he named
Frank Albus, c. A. Fenner, F. A.
Hahn. Peoria. and w. E. Stokes. Chi
cago.
Blair named the following cities
where campaigns have been or are to
be con 1ucted to raise money:
Boston. together with thirty-seven
nearby towns in eastern Massachu-
sets; Cleveland. Cincinnati. Colum-
bus. Toledo, Akron, Youngstown. Day
ton, Springfield O.; Detroit. Indianap-
oils. Fort Wayne. and South Bend
Ind; Chicago, Milwaukee, San Fran
cisco, Los Angeles. Denver, Kansas
City, and St. Louis
You contemplated an intensive eff
fort in fifty-four cities?" asked Reed
That was the objective" replied
Blair. Some cities have eliminated
themselves because of local conditions
We found some cities where it WASH
eXpedient to make a drive"
Name them said Reed
''St. Paul. Dallas. and Houston"
Blair said the time was not favora
bic in St. Paul and Minneapolis anC
in Dallas and Houston. the opposition
was in control"
Quoting again from form 1O2, tn,
plan for fifty-four cities Reed said
Gov. Cox Underestimated.
when Governor Cox said you haj
a plan to raise money in fifty-on
cities. he simply understated by three
didn't he?"
We'll. we intended to go into all tn
big cities" said Blair.
And you pursued that plan excep
where you met Obstacles"
Yes"
Blair said he thought there wa
nothing wrong" about $4,000 to SO,
600 subscriptions from men who ca
give that much.
Reed said his copy of form 10
didn't contain any $4,000 limit bu
referred TO gifts of $1,000 and upward
Blair said Reeds copy was incom
plete and furnished an official cop
which provided for $4,000 subscrip
tions in cases where cities quot
has been fixed at S25O,000 or more.
There isn't any longer any disput
that form lO1 was an actual documer
then" said Reed.
7 didn't say it didn't exist" ar
swered Blair.
NO. but others did and even int
mated that we were trying to put owe
a forged document" said Reed.
Denies Large Contributions.
Blair explained the only differenc
between form 1O1 and the plan az
tually adopted was the $1,000 limit o
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