Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-05-25
COX REFUSES
'fTAINTEDv MONEY
In His Campaign For Presidency
Huge Sums Being Spent By
G. O. P. Candidates
(By Associated Press)

Wick, manager of the presidential
campaign of Governor Edwards
of New Jersey, denied before the
Senate investigating committee
today, that any liquor interest:
were under writing" the Cover
nor's campaign. Wick said the to-
tai sum raised for Edwards was
$4,000. He asserted the Ed
wards campaign is "not a wei
campaign in any sense of the
word, and that he is running sole
ly on the platform of his personal
convictions" :" He declared the Ii
quor interests had not undertaken
to finance the campaign.
John f. Lucy, manager for Her
bert Hoover, told the committee
$66,332 were Hoover's campaign
expenses for the republican nom
1nation, exclusive of the Califor-
MIA primary expense, he said, the
total receipts were $62,185.
J. w. Bullock, Senator Owens
campaign manager, told the com
mittee that approximately $10,-
GOO were raised for the Owens
campaign. Samuel Untermeye1
of New York, gave $1,000. He
was the largest contributor.
Disclosures of finances, inter
woven with the candidates., came
fast and furious, with the follow
ing high spots in the day of con-
fession of the campaign mana
gers:
l. Frank Harris Hitchcock
former Postmaster General anc
"generalissimo" of Major Genera
Leonard Woods forces, said to be
supported by a committee o.
multimillioniares, "dodged" the
production of actual figures or
Wood expenditures, which, he ad.
mitted, were 'too extensive"
2. Gov. Frank o. Lwden's
manager, L. L. Emmerson, of Ill.
inois, Secretary of State, "con
fessed" the use of $404,O00 il
their part of the republican con
test, $4,000 going into Missouri
alone for the capture of SO dele
gates named by the state conven.
ton.
3. Senator Miles Poindexter
of Washington, republican, ad
mitteed having collected %5,0O(
from shipyard owners and New
York bankers, TO finance his figh
for the republican nomination
$4,000 being spent for publicity
4. Senator Hiram w. Johnson
of California, was shown to hav,
spent near $4,000 in addition t.
what California friends spent il
his behalf.
5. Edmund II. Moore, nationa
committeeman and manager 70
Governor James M. Cox, of Ohio
democrat, reported countrywide
expenditures of but $4,000, an,
challenged the republicans to lool
into the Wood fund in the Obi,
primaries, which, he said, woul,
make the Newberry extravag
ance in Michigan look like 'pike1
play"
"We have no pledges on cabine
positions nor anything else," tes
tilted Mr.. Moore. "We say tha
if our candidate is elected he wi
will be a democratic Presidenr
that is all"
'What about the republican eS
penditures in the Ohio primar
election?" asked Senator Wm.
Kenyon, of Iowa, chairman of til
subcommittee.
81 have been in politics for a
most forty years" Mr.. Moore re
piled, "and if | know a chicke
hawk from hand saw, there VIZ
more money expended by the re
publicans in the pre-primary e1e'
ton campaign in Ohio than l eve
saw used in any general election
he replied.
When asked whether or not |
could name some persons lnvol'
ed in the use OF the money he sa
he knew 20 from whom the con
mittee could learn much. He sa
that it constituted public seal
da1."
"Can you tell us who is trea
urer Of the Wood campaign
asked Senator James A. Reed,
Missouri, democrat.
Il know who the angel was
he answered. William Coop
Proctor, of Cincinnati"
With reference to the Cox ca
didacy, Mr.. Moore submitted fl
ures showing approximately 81.
600 had been subscribed to
nance the pre-convention pre-:
dental campaign of the Oh
governor. OF this amount, ST.
600, including contribution
$500 from Governor Cox, W