The Washington herald., 1920-05-29

at the bottom to give it weight,
but that didn't do any good; no.
body believed it,"
Frozen Out Of Game.
Can you tell us anything about
what the newsraPer advertising
must have cost them?"
Il know the rates for it in the
city papers were high. and that
when il got pretty thick the papers
doubled the rates on them. 1t cost
100 much for m". / was frozen out
of that game. On the morning Of
Sunday efore the ordinary l esti-
mated that the advertising for Wood
in the Omaha and Lincoln papers
, alone had cost them $4,000 for tha,
day. and they had been advertising
for three or four months before that
all over the State"
Now there were meetings held In
the State suggested Senator Ken
yon.
Newspapers Were Biased.
Yes, there were meetings held
when General Wood came to the
state. but General Pershing heic
none. can't tell you anything
about the meetings. The newspa-
pers never gave us any information
about them that we could RELY on. ."
What Is your opinion about the
propriety and the effect of sending
$4,000 or 100000 into 4 State. to be
used by manager in political
campaign" was asked.
ReIterntes Philosophy.
Usually, as l have said" replied
Mr.. Harrison, the manager spends
" to pay his political and perhaps
his other debts: then he is inevitably
{ FOOLED into paying money to people
ne expects to do work for him but
VINO don't. l have never employed a
man in a political campaign that
even tried to earn the money he was
paid. They go out; make bluff,
and then come back and tell YOU
"nat they think you want to hear
senator William S. Kenyon. OF
iowa, chairman of the committee
announced the determination Of the
in"estisators to go to the bottom
OF the charges and counter-charges
WIN reference to the Hoover and
johnson expenditures in the Califor-
MA primary fight. The johnson
Io[ces nave charged that a "satur-
mana OF extravaganza" featured the
hoover campaign, and the Hoover
supporters have pointed to an army
OF mlllionaires on the johnson cam
paign committee.
w. H. Crocker and Alexander
McCabe, the Johnson managers.
nave been summoned and requests
sent to the Hoover committee to
send representatives with campaign
ieogers. Frederic William Vile,
washington correspondent Of the
Fuollc Ledger, has been asked to
appear because of dispatch
touching expenditures in Cali
Hanna and AlEer Called.
TO obtain further light on the
WOOD movement. the committee
mas summoned Daniel r. Hanna,
the Cleveland publisher. named by
John T. King. OF Connecticut,
thursday, as the man who pro-
posed TO raise an initial campaign
tnnd OF 100000 for Gen. Wood.
MT Hanna will be asked also about
expenditures in Cuyahoga (Cleve-
land) County during the Ohio pri-
mary: Fred M. Alger. who con-
triouted $50,o00 to the Wood cam
" 3hiCnlSan, managed Dy
nlm' also has been summoned 1t
was expected yesterday that A. A.
Sprague. the Wood treasurer at the
Chlcaso headquarters. would ap-
pear today
A W. Mclean. Democratic nation
al committeeman from North Caro-
Ina said he had been and was a
director in the war finance corpora
ton He denied very specifically he
was the Southern manager OF the
McAdoo campaign. but said:
Disguised McAdoo Candidacy.
Il have discussed with a good
many people the availability OF MIR.
McAdoo as well as of others. There
are no McAdoo headquarters in my
state that / know Of nor for that
matter in New York or anywhere
else. and I never heard of publicity
being sent out. When Senator Sim
mons OF our State announced him.
self a candidate for the Democratic
nomination. ! asked Mr.. McAdoo not
to stand In sle way of those friends
OF Senator Simmons who wanted to
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