The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-25
Was q Piker Compared With
 Some Presidential Candidates, Charge
Lowden Has Already Spent Nearly Half a Million, While Money Rained Into Ohio From Harding and Wood Headquarters, Revelations Show
By Associated Prs,s

Washington, May 24.- A statement flat $404,984.78
 had been spent in behalf of
 Governor Lowden, republican,
 of Illinois, and a charge that
 the outlay in the Ohio primary
 contest between Senator Hard
 ing, republican, of that state,
 and Mai. Gen. Leonard Wood
 made Senator Newberry's s
 Michigan campaign Hook like
 a piker," marked the opening today of the Senate's investi-
 gation into pre-convention cam
 paign expenditures. Frank II. Hitchcock, former postmaster
 general, who appeared as the representa- I tive of General Wood, threw but little l light on the generals campaign expenses and Senator Harding's manager was mol heard today. He will be examined later
 as will number of Wood managers, in- | cluding Col William C. Proctor of Gin cinnati, A. A. Sprague of Chicago iio-
  | H. Price of Cleveland.
 | l.. L. Amerson. secretary of state of | Illinois, was the spokesman for Gov ernor Lowdens He was armed with rec 1 ords and cancelled checks and gave fig ures, names, dates and localities. or the | total spent for Governor LowdsL he said, 1 $379, IS was contributed by the governor | himself Friends gave s35,s25, he testified, before collections were stopped on or ders from Mir IOWden.
 | Detailing expenditures. MT. Emerson l testified that a total of Sl56243 was sent | into different states, the Michigan prl- mary campaign, with S39,l4l, taking the most The Lowden committee, he said, had sent $3S ,O00 into Missouri Senator Reed democrat, of that state. questioned him at length to determine the method of | its use, since there was no urinary elec- | ton.
 Getting out the Lowden sentiment" !" ] was the purpose" Mr. Emerson said, adding that 1t had been unsuccessful be- cause the delegates would support the governors candidacy
 DELEGATES S1,0O0 EACH Cost about $l00O delegate for Mis- | souri's thirty-six," commented Senator Reed.
 w. H. Moore, who testified to contribu- l tions of about $22O0O to the campaign for Governor Cox. democrat, Ohio, made the charge of heavy expenditures in the re- publican primary contest in Ohio and provoked hot partisan strife. Mir Moore told the committee that Colonel Proctor was the "anger' of Gen. eral Wood campaign in Ohio He tes- tified to extensive newspaper advertising
 in the primary fight and at one point was ir terrupted by Senator Spencer, repub- lican, Missouri, who said the witness was making general charges, and demanded names.
 ''I know chicken hawk from a hand saw" MT. Moore retorted, Gall John IT,
 Price, who ran the Wood campaign, and he'll tell you what the Harding men spent. Ask Harry Daugherty, Harding's manager and he will tell you what the
 Wood men spent.
 Call John T. King, who started in as manager of General Woods campaign if you want to know about the story of the underwriting of the Wood campaign take it that this is a real investigation and not a side show. I personally know of one man who put up $50,000 for Wood If King won't tell you, I'll give you the name"
 Dr. Randolph J. Hersey of Wheeling, (Continucd on Page sixteen.)