The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-25
POINDExTER IS SECOND

POINDEXTER IS SECOND
 Senator Poindexter, republican, of Washington, with S75,000, was second to Governor Lowden in size of ex- penditures actually developed. and Senator Johnson, republican, of Cali fornia. with s6S,1SS, was third. The largest contributor to the Johnson fund was H. B. Straussburger of Nor ristown, Pa, who gave $27,000, accord ing to Angus McSween. manager of Johnson's eastern headquarters. Will liam Finn of Pittsburg gave S,Voy to the Johnson campaign, MT. McSween testified.
 Senator Johnson's friends in Cali fornia paid their own expenses in the primary in that state, Mr. McSween said. and also sent ss, 4s> eastern Eeadquarters. Funds for the Michigan campaign also were raised locally ac- cording to the witness.
 H. NJ. Rice, secretary to Senator Pcindexter, testified that J. S. Bache, banker of New York City, had fur nished $25,0o0 for the Poindexter cam paign, while William H. Todd, a Brooklyn shipbuilder, had given s20,- 0OO.
 MT. Hitchcock, who was the first witness of the day. told the commit tee it had been understood when he Joined the Wood organization he was not to handle campaign contributions and said information as to them and expenditures could be obtained from MT. Sprague and Mir. Stebbns. Col onel Proctor. he added, was the gen. eral manager of the Wood campaign. The greatest expenses" were in the big primary fights Hike Illinois and Michigan MT Hitchcock said. He testified that they were handled from Chicago and that he didn't favor mak- ing the fight in those states. The Wood campaign in Michigan, he said, was financed by the Michigan organ ization. of which Col. Fred Alger of Detroit was chairman. The witness said he did not know what had been spent; that that was the state organ nations "own affairs"
 MT. Hitchcock told the committee that when he joined the Wood forces he found tremendous headquarters in various cities, that these were a very serious drain on campaign finances and that eventually their cost became | SC great they had to be cut down. Our finances were always ex- hausted," the witness declared. That's been one of our difficulties, always to get money to meet legitimate | needs.''
 LARGELY ADVISORY Senator Pomerene said it appeared
  | raising or spending funds and asked his lire of work
 "Mr. function has been largely ad- v:sory, supervisory" Mir. Hitchcock re- piled. q have endeavored to interest political leaders oyer the country in
 the Wood cs,use-friends of mine, po-
 litical leaders I had previously known That has been my principal work. 1 MT. Hitchcock said he had had I "SOn hinp n d0o with some of the southern contests.
 ] AS a general thing, I didn't favor contesting in the favorite son states
 he added.
 l Chairman Kenyon, inquiring regard
 ing the southern contests. asked if any had been "set up?"
 ''I never set up contesting delega ftion,' said the witness, adding that th' North Carolina contest developed befor'
 he entered the campaign. The principa contest he said is from Georgia, wher the state chairman. Roscoe Pickett. making a contest. Pickett, he said, |
 one of the Wood leaders.
 "The Wood people have not made an. other contest in the south. said MT
 Hitchcock. declaring that local contest
 between republican factions favoring O opposing certain candidates. had devel foped.
 S1,O0O TO ALABAMA 1 Asked regarding Alabama Mir Hitch cock said that so far as he knew, the to tai sent there, either from Washington
 or New York was $1,000 to Dallas Smith.
 Senator Moses, he said, had more dat;
 regarding southern expenditures.
 The total sent to Georgia was slaSo Mir. Hitchcock said. This was in tw install,nents of s5,0oo. The reason fo
 this. he said. was because of the oppo sition" which developed against spend ing large sums. Lincoln Johnson, he said was the opposition leader and repre- sented the negro element.
 l Campaigns in Florida. Georgia an Virginia were finished before he entere the campaign, MT. Hitchcock said.
 Pressed regarding the organization o southern contests. MT. Hitchcock declare
 he wanted to qualify previous testimoh. and said
 ! The so-called Wood delegation in Mis-
 sippi is not. in my Judgment. a legalE elected delegation. and I have had noth l ing to do with it.'' senting Herbert Hoover republican, wi be the first witness tomorrow. Chairman 1 Kenyon announced. Walter w. Vick general manager for Governor Edwards democrat. of New Jersey, also is ex 1 pected to testify tomorrow along wit | B. M. Baruch, who has been requeste
 to appear for William c. McAdoo, demo 1 crat. and c. c. Carlin. former represen tative from Virginia, who has been con dpcting the contest in behalf of Attornc'