The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-02
Railway League Pays Idea
Maker $1,000 Per Month.
Not Political Party, Declares
Official to Senate Probe.
CHARGES AGAINST PALMER
McAdOO Backer Says Attorney
General Shuts His Eyes.
"Lets Vets Operate to Further
Political Ambitions"

Washington, June 2.-Charges that 1
the campaign for the nomination of |
Attorney General Palmer as Demo-
cratic candidate for the presidency |
had been conducted in Pennsylvania |
with an open appeal to the distillery |
and brewery interests in the state
were made today before the senate |
Investigating committee by Eugene C. |
Bonniwell of Philadelphia.
Mr.. Bonniwell, who distributed stick |
ers during the primary campaign
seeking the nomination OF w. G. Nc
Adoo. said that saloons and bonded
warehouses in some parts of the state
were now running wide open," and
that this was proceeding under the
eyes of department of Justice and pro-
hibition enforcement officers of the
federal government appointed with
Mr.. Palmer's wise"
The witness charged that the Pal
mer campaign in Pennsylvania had
been a CHASTITY and defacing degrada-
ton of law. He added that the cam
paign he conducted for Mr.. McAdoo
had been entirely the work of him
self and his colleagues and against the
specific personal refusal of Mr.. Nc
Adoo to allow his name TO be used.
Liquor Men His Supporters.
Mr.. Palmer took a seat among the
spectators in the committee room and
did not confer with any member of the
| committee. Mr.. honeywell was again
on the stand when Senator SRenSer.
Republican Missouri. acting for Ch;Vr-
man Kenyon, called the afternoon sks-
! sion to order.
The doors of the bonded ware
houses in Pennsylvania are standing
wide open," Mr.. Bonneywell said. The
breweries are running every day end
| the saloons are selling 2-per-cent bec~.
THE Palmer campaign was a
ghastly and debasing degradation of
the law. Its organization was an in
vitation to violate the laws
Men concerned in the sale of liquors,
he said, were leading the Palmer fight.
! Probe Plumb League.
Officials of the Plumb Plan league,
n organized in the interest of govern
ment ownership of railroads, were be-
fore the senate campaign expenditures
Investigating committee today.
Edward Heating. former Colorado
CONGRESSMAN, said the league has not,
nor does not, intend to contribute to
the campaign of any presidential can
ldidate.
| Organized labor. Heating explained.
has under way a campaign to defeat
congressman and senators considered
unfavorable to it, but he said the
Plumb league has no connection with
this except that it distributes informa-
ton concerning the movement in its
weekly paper, Labor.
The league, Heating said. confines
itself to gathering information about
presidential candidates.
i Il gathered the impression from
your paper that you rather favored
Mr.. McAdoo and Hiram Johnson.
Kenyon said.
81 don't mean to say that we are
opposed to Mr.. McAdoo. We have ex-
pressed our approval of some of his
utterances."
Has "One Cent" Fund.
Heating said each member of the
league and brotherhoods of railroad
employees will contribute one cent
each, creating a fund of $4,000 OF
$4,000 for use in the coming cam
paign.
Labor will attempt to get in touch
with farmers and agricultural labol
and with the liberal people in gen
eral" Heating said.
1--WE will not presume to give in
structions to organizations and candi
J dates. That would be resented.
Each local organization will be lef
free to conduct its own campaign.
; Plumb Is On Salary.
Keating said Glenn f. Plumb. chair
man of the league, got $1,000 8
month.
Eventually" he said, "the leagu'
; hoped to see its plan of railroas
! ownership incorporated in party plat
. forms"
Senator Reed, Missouri, insiste,
that the league was a political organ
. ization.
you are not pltting us in the clas
with parties who go out and buy dele
gates, are you?" Heating asked.
Our position is tnat every mem
1 ber of every house VINO voted for tn
Cummins- Esch bill should be de
. | feated," Kea.ing said in reply to
question by Senator Pomerene.
Mrs. Antoinette Funk testified next
: She said she went to the Democrati
: national committee after finishing lib
= erty loan work.
do you know of any campaigl
: fund for Mr. McAdoo?" ?" Kenyon ask ed
There isn't any" she said