The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-01
TEXT OF STATEMENT

MT. COX s statement tOliUWS;
 q have read Will H. Hays testimony before the senatorial committee. Fors months he has said to the public thats the campaign funds were to be raised through individual subscriptions moi ex- ceeding one thousand dollars. ner words, it was to be "a populat moves ment In the face of accommodating evil denee he admits now thas in a pemoer of instances subscriptions were made running as high as nine thousand dol lars but in the same breath he says that it was not the fixed policy of the national committee to secure money in allotments exceeding one thousand dol lars This is absolutely untrue and aga'n call into evidence q docMnsrt from the republican rational committee.
 gT'wo days after Senator Harding wa rominated, a communication was senr to the men Chairman Hays characterizes as the money diggers The .document>is headed campaign plan larger cities The very first advice is this;
 Secure as chairman for the campaign A man widely known and of commanding influence Have him appoint strong representative executive committee of at least twelve men. It may require two or three days to secure such a com mttee, but it must be hanepicked Have the date set for an executive com mittee luncheon that will be held within
 
 international speaker should awaken this committee to the necessities of the situ- ation This will get the sights of every ono of the committeeman high" az to the amounts to be asked from big business men. The time has arrived whens some prospects should be asked for s9o- scriptions ranging from 5000 and upward In any case, it is absolutely necessary first of all to sell" to this committee the quota and the campaign plans.
 WHAT TT PROVES
 The very preface of the document shows two things. First, that subscrip- tions were to be sought from five thou sand dollars upwards and that the quota should be sold. That a minimum of three thousand dollars in cities the size of st. Louis, Cleveland and Detroit, was the objective, is shown by a para graph in the document which is as fol- lows:
 "In city the size of St. Louis, Cleve- land, or Detroit a giltedge list of az least three thousand names should be Secured This list should contain only the names of prospects able to contri- bute from s100 up.'
 This would make at the lowest call culation practically one third of mtl- lion dollars in cities of the given size. Then the money diggers are asked to secure an estimating committee of the big VlSlOned 1lnanCldi men, inStTuctthS them carefully as to the basis upon which to estimate the contributing ability of prospects. After the cards Of special prospects have been reserved for the executive committee the re- mainng cards should be submitted to the division chairman, and they in turn should make a selection of approxt- rnately 25 cards each for what might be termed "a cream list" to be distributed as favor to the team captains. The balance of the prospect list should be thrown open to the teamworkers at d special luncheon. meeting.
 The assumption Is that the team captains are to have the cream and the team workers the skinned milk.
 THE SPECIFICATIONS
 Specifications are found in these words;
 ITO facilitate the organization os teams, the chairman and the executive committee should prepare list of re- publican business men who promise to give at least two hours day for week, That the national Headquarters is to be in touch with what is going on in every community is evidenced by this assurance.
 "Arrange a dinner 10 which all pros pects shall be invited. The national headquarters shall send speaker of na- tonal reputation 10 lhtorm ana eN- thuse,"
 "Further proof of concealment of facts is afforded by these words
 Large subscriptions might well be reported pieceneal daily at the lunch con each liberal subscription being re- ported without the name of the sub scriber.'
 That the whole procedure has been an affair intended only for the eye of the money digging machine is thor oughly established--itein as to secrecy It is couched in these terms;
 SECRECY. URGED
 No instructions to team captains or workers should be printed. and care must be used that nothing is left on tables at luncheons or dinners that might fall into the hands of any one that might give publicity to such ma terial
 .sContrasting this official docu-
 ment from the republican national
 Headquarters with the statement
 Mir. Hays yesterday made under
 oath. I cannot believe n single word
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