The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-04-09
REPUBLICANS REPORTED
TO BE RAISING HUGE
"SLUSH" FUND

Washington, d. c.. April 3.-Sena-
tor Borah's bill limiting the pre-con-
vention expenditures of Presidential
candidate was nothing less than a
bomb in the ranks of the Republican
party, and the proposal made by Sen
ator Kenyon that an investigation of
charges that enormous slush funds are
being used to gain control of the Re-
publican Convention at Chicago has
spread CONSERVATION in the camps Of
the G. 0. P. presidential aspirants.
Senator Borah's bill would limit the
amount that may be expended for a
presidential candidate in any one
State to $4,000, exclusive of the &C
tual personal expense of the candi-
date, such as travelling expenses, sub
sistence, telephone and telegraph
bills, etc, and would provide the full
est possible publicity for the receipts
and disbursements of the candidates.
Under the bill, the only way can
didate may escape personal response
bility for the expenditure Of more
than $4,000 in any one State is to
publicly make protest against such
expenditure" Without such protest,
the candidate would be criminally Ii
able.
Senator Borah was moved to intro
duce the bill by the recent published
charges by a New York newspaper
that fund of one million dollars had
been underwritten to further the can
didacy of Major General Leonard
Wood for the Republican nomination,
and by charges made by Senator
johnson, one of the Republican candi-
dates, that immense sums of money
are being spent for both Wood and
General Lowden.
Speaking on his bill in the Senate,
Senator Borah declared that the use
of money in elections in recent years
had grown to enormous proportions,
and that sit is apparent that unless
something be done to check this,
there will be veritable saturnalia of
expenditures on both sides" He said
it had been reported the Democratic
party was seeking to raise cam
paigri fund of $10,000,000, but Senator
Harrison, of Mississippi, promptly
interrupted to call the Idaho Senator's
attention to the fact that the Chair
man of the Democratic National Com
mittee had denied this.
Referring to the charges that some
of the Republican candidates had
been expanding vast sums, Senator
Borah demanded that the candidates
make public the names of the sub
scribers to their campaign funds, with
the amounts of their subscriptions and
the manner in which the money is be-
ing used Reading newspaper state
ments that General Woods support
ers were out to capture the Indiana
delegation Eat any cost, Senator b.
rah said that General Wood would not
personally indulge in such practice,
but "he is responsible if he accepts
the benefits of the acts of others.
Woods managers say that the Low
den people are spending more money
than they. l am inclined to think that
is true. But it is shameless state
of affairs when that - the only reply
that can be made to charge that ex-
cessive expenditures are being made!
Giant G. o. p. Fund Is Planned.
In this connection, it will be re-
called that as long ago as last No
vember, Chairman Durbin, of the
Ohio Democratic State Central Com
mittee, made the charge that the Re-
publicans were setting about to raise
a slush fund of possibly 100000, 900
with which to capture the Presiden-
tial and Congressional elections this
year. He made public letters that
had come into his possession showing
where "big business" interests in