Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-06-02
.LOWDEN LEADERS
SPENT $4,000
IN MISSOURI IN
LATE CAMPAIGN
Jaw, Go Aheau 2 e,
Il j. Man Says He :
Told When He HeSitateu
About Accepting Money,
WORKERS WERE PAID
FROM $100 TO $500
In Some Cases, However,
First Class Talent ReCeiy-
ed $1,000; Some of Them
Were National Delegates,

| tsN MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED wlREl
| Washington, June / (by the AS
sociated Press) Checks aggregat-
ing $4,000 sent into Missouri by
the managers of Governor Low
den's campaign were presented to-
| day to the senate committee in
vestigating the pre-convention ex-
penditures of presidential candi-
dates.
While most of the day was de-
voted by the committee to ques-
tioning witnesses as to the expen-
Iditure of sums covered by the
Ichecks, primary contests in other
states were touched upon.
In its inquiry into the Lowden
campaign in Missouri, the commit
tee questioned Nat GOldstein and
Robert l.. Moore, delegates to the
republican national campaign from
Missouri, who testified that they
each had received a check for So
500 from the Lowdcn campaign
fund. Both said the money stlll
was held to their account In banks
and would be returned, unless Gov
.ernor Lowden was nominated. in
which event it would be used in
the campaign.
j, b, Babler, national commit
teeman from Missouri, whom Gold
stein and Moore designated as the
one who transmitted the checks to
them from l.. l Emmerson, Low
den campaign manager also was
questioned by the committee. f.
l.. Moore. head of the Lowden Mis-
souri, organization outside of st.
Louis, testified that he had re-
ceived by check from MIR. Emmer-
son approximately $4,000 and ex-
pended it in getting out the work
ers."
Babler got $4,000 of these
funds, he said, to reimburse him
for siTuilar expenditures
Roth Moore and Goidstein said
they had declared no money was
necessary in their congressional
districts. Moore said Babler had
told him, Jaw, go ahead and take
1t" when he had hesitated about
accepting a check from Emmerson.
Babler was pressed on this point
by Chairman Kenyon when he ap-
peared later.
WAS it a pretty hard job to get
Moore and Goldstein to take the
money!" the senator asked.
well. | was very anxious about
the st. Louis situation" Babler re-
Piled. 81 wanted to tie them up
and urged Emmerson to assist In
any way necessary to get their
active support"
Morse and Babler gave from
memory lists of state workers" to
whom they had distributed the
money received from Emmerson.
The amounts ranged as a rule from
500 to 5000 but in some cases
went over $1,000
Morse said three men on lists
were national delegates. including
William e. Cole. who Is delegate
at-large. The witness said he had
given Cole $500 for headquarters"
purposes,
Senator Kenyon promptly callei
attention to the fact that previous
testimony before the committee
Nblt Ildl i'ttlNtN Hl GpV
To Sound out" sentiment for Hard !
ing. Morse and Babler said they !
had understood Cole was for Low
den, with Senator Harding per |
haps as a second choice"
"Here is a delegate-at-large with |
$3.50 Harding money and $500 ,
Lowden money" said Senator |
Kenyon. "Who is third choice?"
Additional information as to the |
Wood campaign in Michigan was |
presented by Fred NJ. Alger OF |
Detroit. who said he had person.
ally contributed $4,000 of the |
$4,000 Wood fund raised and ex-
pended in the state and already In |
the committees records. He had
also expended personally. he add
ed, $4,000 or $4,000. |
"I was proud to do II; I would
10 It again.
One feature of the Missouri sit
lation which drew the attention
,f the committee members partic-
lIarly was the statements of Morse
md Bahler that when the Lowden
project was first mentioned to
hem they believed no sentiment
1ad "crystallized for Lowden In
Both said they had
favored the candidacy
" Senator Johnson of California,
'as long as he had a chance"
'abler added that in December or
January of this year when the
..owden matter was taken up he
lid not believe Johnson had
,host of a chance" which influ-
,.oaJ !, lie, N otinp