Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-02
DEMOCRATIC FUND
III LIME:L|.|GHT At
SENATORIAL PROBE
Chairman White and Treas
urer Marsh Are Called to
Stand following Testimony
of Hays and Upham

CIldIIIidu Ol Lie DSIHOCIdIlC IdIlOHdl
committee, today told the senatorial
committee Investigating campaign
| expenditures, that he thought ST.
| 100000 fund for national committee
purposes would provide for an ade-
quate presidential campaign this
year.
The Democratic leader was careful
to impress upon the committee that
this estimate was a personal opin-
| ion.
81 have not yet appointed our cam
paign fund committee" he explain
ed. Il intended to do it this week
but was delayed by the call to ap-
pear at this hearing. Consequently
my estimate is made as an indi-
vidual."
The Democratic organization has
not yet made up a budget, Mr.. White
said, but he added that the various
bureaus were pressing him to ap-
point the campaign fund committee
so that they might be informed of
their allotments.
hoSielLOl oDSllCclJ WHO presumed DIT
the opening of today's session in the
absence of Senator Kenyon, brought
out that national headquarters of the
committee are in the Grand Central
palace, in New York, with branches
IN Chicago. San Francisco and Wash
ington.
Mr.. White said the committee had
also reserved six rooms in the Muir
ray Hill hotel. in New York, in
which he had planned to install a.
foreign voters league"
Speaker Wants $500
Senator New. head of the Repub-
lican speakers bureau, testified YES
terday that Prof. John o. Hall, of
Willamette university, Salem, Ore,
who had offered to work for the Re-
publican campaign provided it's man
ayers met or raised a Democratic
offer of $500 for his services. was
in the Murray Hill hotel quarters as
head of the Scandinavian bureau.
Mr. White told the committee he
knew nothing personally about evil
dence showing an attempt by the
Republican party to Corrupt the
electorate and said the only place
he knew where such evidence could
be obtained would be from Cover
nor Cox.
Mr.. White said that he had no
evidence to sustain any one of the
charges made by Governor Cox, his
party's presidential nominee, as to
Republican campaign funds and
quotas or the alleged desire of con-
tributors ito have back of them in
industrial centers the bayonets OF
their puppets in office"
He said that he believed the
charges We're true because he had
confidence in Governor Cox. but he
hao not discussed them in detail with
the nominee and brought nothing
from him to aid the committee in
sitting them.
Il talked with Governor Cox last
Sunday for a few minutes" said Mr.
White. II asked him: Are YOU sure
of your ground" He said he was
and I told him: You are the boss
and you run it,
Senator Kenyon asked if Mr.. White
did not consider it the duty of the
mem who have this evidence, if it
exists, to give it to us whether thew
are presidential candidates or not"
and when the witness did not reply
the chairman said he realized the
query might be embarrassing and he
would not press it, out OF respect
to Mr.. Whites relations with Gov
ernor Cox.
Mr.: White, under questioning by
senators Spencer and Kenyon, SAID
the only example of sinister in
party which he knew of persona y
was the Republican yearbook benz
published by William Barnes.
Reed and Kenyon Cla,h
Discussion OF the Barnes book dis
closed that Photographic copies of
pledges OF moral and financial sup
port to then book, signed by promi-
nent eastern men including the
Rockefellers, had disappeared from
the records, in which they were in
troduced Monday. A heated clash be-
tween Senator Reed and Senator Ken
yon followed when Senator Reed in
sisted on an investigation of the dis
appearance of the papers.
DO you understand that these
pledges related only the support for
the book" Senator Kenyon asked Mr..
White.
They could mean anything" the
witness answered.
Senator Reed objected to the line
of questioning and Senator Kenyon
heatedly retorted that the Missouri
I0nn1nnrafin Saan1nH tn havn
"one-line of examination for a Re-
publican and wants to use another
line for a Democrat"
DO you think the Barnes book is
a more sinister influence than the
circulation throhgh country newspa-
League of Nations, such as this
story Uncle Sam of Freedom Ridge,
and having it paid for by political
party and having the man who reads
not know that 1t is political propa-
ganda? Which is the more sinister"
Senator Kenyon asked when quiet
was restored
Il don't apologize for wanting to
circulate that story,"\ Mr.. White re-
Joined. The editor Of the paper is
responsible. if he uses it. He isn't
paid to print it,"
Senator Spencer asked the Demo-
cratic chairman to produce a list OF
all employees of the Democratic ma
tional committee and their salaries.
which he promised to do. No speak
ers are being paid salaries, the wit
ness said, and he does not plan TO
pay any. He added that he had au-
rhorized the expenditure of 100000
by the speakers bureau so far.
rs it true" Senator Spencer
asked, that you have stated you
will not place any limit on campaign
contributions"
Il did say that. There is no limit
on the size, within the discretion of
the treasurer and myself after con-
sidering both the size and the
source"
Cox's Special Train
Senator Kenyon then inquired
about Professor John o. Hall, head
of the Scandinavian bureau of the
Democratic national committee, who
was shown in letters read by SEN
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