New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-24
Hays Declares
Party Welcones
und Inquiry
Chairman Says Financial
Plans of National Com
mittee Are an Open Book;
Pleased With Cox's Move
Ready for Chicago Probe
Agreement May Be Made
for Both Sides to Sub
NIT a Weekly Report

Will II. Hays, chairman of the Re-
publican National Committee, yester-
day promptly and enthusiastically met
the demand Of Governor Cox for an
investigation of campaign expendi-
lures with declaration that it was
exactly what the Republicans wanted.
Governor Cox charged that the Re
publlcans were raising a campaign
fund of $15,Oo0OOO. Franklin D. Roose-
welt said the sum being raised was
s5o,ooo,oo0. Chairman Hays says it is
S3,0OO,0O0 or Whereabouts.
When the ditpatch from Chicago
saying that the Senate committee
would send for him and Chairman
George White of the Democratic Ma
tonal Committee fcc Showdown"
next Monday in Chicago was called to
the attention of Chairman Hays he
said:
Splendid, This is exactly what we
want. We welcome the fullest pub
LEFTY now and later and as often as
possible. The financial plans of the Re-
publican National Committee are an
open book. The more information the
public has of our plan, of our budget
and of our expenditures, the better
pleased we will be-"
May Give Weekly Reports
Mr.. Hays, who went into detail in
his speech in Augusta, Me, on Satur-
day, on the innuendoes Of Governor
Cox, had this to say of the Governors
demand for a complete explanation:
i covered the ground pretty
11ln,oroughly IN my speech in Maine
Inc Joint debate between the Demo
cratic Presidential candidate and the
ways and means department Of the
Republican National Committee still
obtains"
1t would not surprise Republicans if
one of the outcomes of the inquiry in
Chicago will be an agreement. forced
oy CHAIRMAN Hays, for a weekly de-
talled report of all financial transac-
tlons under the purview of the two
rational committees from now unit
the end of the campaign.
Attention was called to the fact that
Chairman Hays more than a wear age
announced that the Republicans woulc
limit campaign subscriptions to 1000
inns is what has been done In man,
instances when the contributions have
exceeded this sum the checks have
been returned with a suggestion that
$1,000 was the limit
When asked about the Maine sjtna
ton MIR. Hays said:
There is every indication of a Re
publican majority double that of an,
time in the last twenty years The
electorate are absolutely determined
TO end the Democratic administration
Of national affairs. They are thus de
termined because of the Republican
position and purposes"
Hughes to Aid in Campaign
Mr. Hays lunched yesterday witt
Judge Charles Z. Hughes. Just bacl
from his vacation. He said the judge
would engage actively in the campaign
The national chairman will preside
to-day and tomorrow at conference
on general campaign matters to be at
tended by national committeeman
state chairmen, state vice chairmen anG
other organization leaders in the
states east of Ohio. The national com
mitteemen expected are:
J. Henry Roraback, Connecticut; r
Coleman du Pont, Delaware; George
W. Bean, Florida; Guy P Gannett
Maine; John w Weeks, Massachusetts {:
l
Morehead North Carolina; Earle S.
Knsley, Vermont. and c. B. Slemp,
Virginia, also Washington, d. c.
The state chairmen who will attend
are: J. Henry Roraback, Connecticut;
Charles Warner, Delaware; Frank j.
Ham. Maine; Galen l.. TAFT. Maryland
Frank ]. Hall, Massachusetts; Dwight
Hall, New Hampshire; f. c. Stokes.
New Jersey; George A. Glynn, New
York; William E. Grow, Pennsylvania;
Joseph P. Burlingame, Rhode Island ;
j. f. Paddock, Vermont; Joseph l..
Crupper, Washington, D. c., and NJ Z.
White, South Carolina.
The e-chairmen, all of whom are
women. who will attend are: Mrs. Guy
Gannett, Maine; Mrs. Charles Sumner
Bird, Massachusetts; Mrs William
Schofeld, New Hampshire; Mrs. Lillian
+. Feickert, New Jersey; Mrs. Arthur
L. Livermore, New York; Mrs. Barclay
Warburton, Pennsylvania; Mrs Ed
ward S. M9ulton, Rhode Island, and
Mrs. George Peterborough, West Vir-
ginia.
Other states will be represented by
H