The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-03

campaigns but usually nave given that
up at the end of brief period of ex-
perimcnting but in the case of MIR. Cox,
his friends say he always manages his
own campaigns and that he VIII be
equal to this job too.
The fact Is Governor Cox is a natural
born manager and that he has the fac
nlty Of getting loyal and enthusiastic |
support from his subordnates but man |
aging a campaign and managingsa bus
mess properly are two different things.
In the first place, the Ohio. governor
can t give all shis time to the talks of
management and in the second place
the time of the whole campaign is too
short to select the personnel who can
Get maximum results in the period of
two months left before election day. II
Every Indication both from the tes-
timony of the Democrats about their
finances and from the talk of the lead
ers who have drifted in here points TO
a state of disorganization rather than
organization inside the Democratic
Camp. The money ism It in sight and
the organization work Sof campaigning
il hardly started The sudden .intru-
sion of the investigation of finances
has taken men like Wilbur Marsh, ma
tional treasurer, and w. ID. Jameson,
director of finance, and even George
White, national chairman, away from
their jobs at time when they ought
to be at work irving to clear away the
llreliminaries that should have been
done in July.
The arrival here of Ed Moore, per
sonnet representative of Governor Cox
and the man who engineered the nomi-
nation fight SO successfully at San
Francisco. viii relieve all the Demo-
cratic leaders somewhat as they have
Testified to their ignorance of the proof
on which the nominee bases his charges
and have said he alone could furnish
/ that proof.
In talking with Mr.. Moore the writer
| learned that he has been entrusted the
evidence that Governor Cox had in his
possession when the charges of a $15,-
100000 fund were first made. Mr..
Moore insists that the Republicans
have dual organization and that the
national committee and its subordinates
| have planned to raise sums while indie
pendently of them state directors of
| finance and local ehairmen of ways and
means committees have started to raise
auotas such as Governor Cox men
| toned in his Pittsburgh speech. Mr.
| Moore says there is no special need for
| Governor Cox to testify as he himself
WASH I present at the meetings at
which these quotas We're discussed, but
| he, Mr.. Moore, can furnish the names
of some of the men who were there.
| In other words, the Cox case rests upon
| the expectation that there are Republi-
| cans who viii testify to the anthem
iicity of the Cox statement about Re-
/ publican quotas and that after the
state finance chairmen have been sum-
moned, the real quotas viii come out
so that in the aggregate the sums being
raised Independently of the national Re-
| publican committee will be found to
have reached the estimates read by
Governor Cox in Pittsburgh Mr.
Moore is an able lawyer and makes the
threat that if the men. who were pres
ent at these meetings do not tell about
it frankly on the witness Stand, they
viii lay themselves open to charges of
perjury.
1t begins to look as if Mr.. Moore
| will handle the case from now on and
that Governor Cox viii not appear be-
fore the senatorial committee at all,
his attitude being that the Republicans
Il
committee will have been given all the
leads and clues necessary to prove the
| case conclusively and that if finances
of the several states are not probed to
the very bottom, it Will be because of
| Republican partisanship and nothing
Ielse. Mr.. Cox sent for Senator Pome-
rene. a Democratic member of the in
vestigating committee, two days ago
and both Mr.. Pomerene and Mr. Moore
received from the Democratic nominee
all the evidence in his possession.
Meanwhile somewhat of a sensation
has been caused by the threat of in
dictments on both sides The Republi-
cans say the Democratic finance direc-
tor solicited funds from federal office
holders but the Democrats say it is
not violation of law to do so in a fed
eral Office holder s home and that the
statutes merely prohibit soliciting in a
public building. Federal office holders
in Republican and Democratic parties
have always contributed in indirect
ways.
But Mr. Marsh, the national treas.
urer of the Democratic party, limited
that indictments might be asked
against the wealthy men who signed a
paper pledging their moral and finan-
claI support TO spread hepuDllcan point
zeal propaganda and subscribed big
sums of money for the purpose. The
Republican defense is that the money
was given for the publication of book
by William Barnes, as the editor of a
newspaper, and was in nowise different
from the issuance of a special edition
or supplement by any Republican OF
Democratic newspaper. The Democrats
insist that the pledge itself doesn 4
mention the book but refers to polit-
zeal propaganda generally. Some of
the biggest corporations in the country
pledged their support. They are est
many hundreds of millions of dollars
1t is unlikely that indictments will be
pressed in the courts on either side
The effort will be to secure indict-