New-York tribune., 1920-08-28

Cox are the Sinister interests" which
ne ne charged are raising $l5.0O0,OOO to
ouy an underhold on the government"
Tor the next four years.
Hays's Mistake Pointed Out
Politicians here think that Governor
oox eventually must prove Republican
corruption or his charges will be a
boomerang Chairman Hays, in their
opinion, made mistake when he didn't
answer Cox's first attack with a COM
piete statement of the Republican finan-
ciai plans. Furthermore, this view is
that instead Of announcing that the
national committee is planning to spend
$3,oOO,O0O, Mr.. Hays should have said
that the Republican party is after ST.
ooo'ooo for all purposes, national, Con-
gressional, state, county and city, and
that the sum to be spent in the national
campaign Is estimated at $3,000,000.
AS viewed here, the only things Cox
really showed were that the Republi-
cans are raising big campaign fund
some one foolishly conceived the notion
that the names of contributors should
be kept secret locally.
The part of Governor Cox's charges
which was regarded here as serious
was the allegation of an attempt to
corrupt the electorate.
The Governor, it is pointed out,
failed to give any evidence of proof re-
garding the collection Of any money;
he failed to name single individual or
corporation that had contributed to
the Republican fund with the idea of
buying an "underhold" on the govern
ment, and, lastly, he did not produce a
thing showing where the Republicans
had misspent cent of their funds.
Republicans here expect the Kenyon
committee to force Governor Cox to
produce proof of his charge that those
putting up money for the Republican
campaign are doing this so labor will
robbed by profiteers and the country be
plundered with the aid of the Federal
Reserve system.
List To Be Made Public
The list of contributors to the Re-
publican fund will be made public in
Chicago next week, when the party
managers appear before the Kenyon
committee. Republicans in the national
capital feel sure that the country will
be convinced there is nothing wrong
known who is furnishing the money.
1t is said that contributions have been
received from all sections of the coun-
try and represent persons in all walks
of life. 1t also is declared that the
rule to accept no subscriptions of
more than $1,000 has been adhered to
strictly. Under this plan there is only
one fund.
Republican bulletins quoted by Mr..
Cox have had general circulation
throughout the country, Mr.. Miller ex-
planned. He added that there has been
no attempt at secrecy. Instead, he
went on, the Republicans have been
boasting about their plan to raise
funds bedause they are certain it will
result in reducing the high cost of
elections, as we'll as spreading the ex-
pense throughout the United States,
instead of confnng it to few rich
persons in the East.
The national campaign budget of s3,-
100000, it is said, is only about $780,
900 more than in 1916, when a dollar
went nearly twice as far as one will
go now. The national Democratic cam
paign four years ago cost s2,6O0,OOO
Add to either the Republican or Dem
ocratic 1916 national fund the sums
spent by the Congressional and state
committees and, it is said, either total
will be far beyond the $80OO,OOO
which Governor Cox accuses the Re-
pubicans Of trying to get now for all
purposes.