The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-03-31
6. Q. FEARFUL
 OF 4 SCANDAL
 IN THEIR RANKS
Await Definite News on 'FMiilion Dollar" Wood
 Campaign.

lWeS4hfaaSbCn, O. Cs, EAafcA Sl-- Fearing 9 scandal in the ranks of their party, Senator William g. Be- raahs of Ida,ho,- and other Republicans of progressive 1eanings, are aswa41ng the answer of Major General Leonard Wood to published charges that @ greap of fniliosaires have undertaken the underwriting of a, rnialion dollar Wood campaign fund to he used be- fore the Chicago convention.
 In a formal statement Senator Be- rah asserts that Tit is nothing less than a national peril that two months before the convention the use of money in the attempt to control the convention has reached the point of a scandal For weeks these charges have been made and made by men who profess to know the facts. That a vast sum of money IS being spent is perfectly apparent
 Other senators i1ges1dlng Senator Kenyon Republican, of Iowa, are Wn dersteod to be anxzo7zsiy awaiting a definite answer from General Wood and his managers That the atten- tfon of the Senate may be called to the charges unless %sh answer is sat isRascGoTy is reporte1 at che capital
 So far the Wood ffeadqGaEters have isst4ed no definite statement replying
 
 sentative Gould, tine eastern manager for Wood, issued a, statement saying General Wood did not have a. million Sio4Haa fund, but said he would refuse to either affirm or deny the Hist Of al legged wealthy contributors to the fund, This PEHb4ished list of underwriters l incasRded coqFoEsati tion directors, trans poz4a4fon and steel n4agnates, bankers ard other 14asl1foqsaires. Representa- 11ir 1h covered faaa gen eral ground that aM classes of z4aen were for Wood.
 It 4s generally understood that Sen aAoq Borah will demand the facts if the Wood managers do not come for ward with a, specific accounting giv- isss t7a4e names of contributors and amounts contributed. Senator Borah said an ordinary denial would not meet the serious allegations. He added:
 'TTgaey owe it to their candidate, still more to the party and most of all to the country to clear these ] charges in an 7lnna6staazaaoae way And this is the on1y way they can be cleared up satisfactorily The RepH1ao- lica1as, in my Judgment, will demand ! usothipg 1ess-'
 l Senator Borsaa said presidential candidate this year coudd carry through the campaign charges that he was the candidate of the wealth of the country
 ] This is not the time to trdHe with public opinion,'' said Senator Borah i Men who put up vast sums of money l for a candidate are believed by the public to have an ulteTior se1fisih mo 1 tive. It is not the act of beneficence altogether. If a man contribute: l $100,0 900 to a, mans campaign fund it is generally believed that some I where along the line he expects re turn. The Republican party eanno go into this campaign with any hopt of success with any candidate whether General Wood or someone else, whose nomination has beer 1 brought about by a brutal ant | shameless use of money"
 In connection with Senator Borah'. demand for a Republican hoIZs' 1 cleaning, it is recalled that as ia back as last November w W Drbin l state chairman of the Ohio Demo
 cratic Executive Committee charge'
 that the Republican managers haa | begun to get together a vast sausl
 fund for use this year. MT Durbi1
 did not refer to any particular can
 didate, but declared that Ohio Re
 publican leaders, following an ad
 dress by Will H. Hays of the Re
 publican National Committee, wer
 circulating letters saying that ''
 large fund must be obtained in1rned
 Eate3y, largely for the purpose of a .a educational campaign and that 'i 1 is not a political problem so much a 1 it is a commercial problem
 The published charges concernin
 the big campaign fund of Genera
 Wood name Dan Hanna, of Ohio, a
 the initial promoter Of the t+under
 writing of the Wood boom by ) group of 11fI1ionaires