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Senate Committee TO InVGSti-
gate Reports.
HEAR NEGROES ILL USED
RI. L. johnson Declares Blacks Who
Vote Republican Ticket in Georgia
Disappear.

Disappear.
Chicago, July 9.-The senate cam
paign investigating committee. will
move to st. Louis to take up the in
Vestigation of Attorney General A.
Mitchell Palmer's campaign for the
Democratic nomination.
The chairman, Senator Kenyon. Re
puhllran, Iowa, announced this when
hearings were resumed.
The principal witness in the Palmer
investigation will he Edward f. Col
ira, Democratic national COMMITTEES
man from Missouri, and Joseph 7.
Davis, an attorney, of st. Louis.
report GoItra paid the expenses
of twenty EIGHT delegates to the state
convention which Ousted Senator Reed
from his national convention seat at
san Francisco will be one of the mat
terS investigated, it was said Sena-
tor Reed is a member of the com
mittee
Charges We're made before the COM
mtttee by William Armstrong, Chicago
attorney, that Palmer released pro
hihtiOn law vioIatOrs and was instru
mental in quashing indictments
against large corporations to procure
aid in his campaign for the Demo
cratic nomination
Negroes who have voted the Repub-
lican ticket in Georgia have "d:Snp-
pcarcd' and never have been heard Of
a%an, according to Henry Lincoln
Johnson. negro Republican national
committeeman. the first of the days
Witnesses
Johnson told the committee eighty
five per cent of the negroes were pre-
vented from voting "by brutal force
and suppression" He said the stu
alton was summed up in the following
words, which he attributed TO a speech
by Senator Hoke Smith:
''In Georgia no negro is fortunate
enough to vote, while no white nan
is too unfortunate TO vote"
Asked about lynchings, Johnson as
serted the great trouble was white
men were allowed to attack negro
S>ii - " siii''ut ptli4lSliiIlClit- ANti' ~ Il
state of affairs greatly aggravated
race feeling, he said
They don't lynch men for belong
Ing 70 the Republican party do they r.
asked Senator Kenyon.
'Oh. yes, they do" Johnson replied.
..AsIany negro voting the Repnfl go
ticket has disappeared and no tSIllllSss tSIllllSSs
have ever been heard of him."
In Dublin, Ga, during the pre-con-
vention campaign. there was wild use
of money" the witness asserted. ''I
spent only $50 there" he explained,
"but the other fellows spent more
than $1,000"
The other fellows" he said, ''were
the representatives of Major General
Leonard Wood, while / was working
for my national committeeman"
Asked if Wood supporters bought
delegates" Johnson said he didn't
know, but "they passed out plenty of
jack to the boys"
Johnson said the hackers of General
Wood spent around 100000 in Geor-
gia, while the LOwden supporters
spent only $4,000"
Clark l.. Grier. former postmaster
1T Augusta, Ga, was the "pay off
man" for the Wood people, he said.
adding that Grier worked under direct
orders from Frank Hitchcock, post
master general in the Roosevelt cabi-
act.
Johnson is said to have received
$4,000 from the LOwden campaign
hest
When he charged the Democrats had
spent more money than he did, and
had bought votes in local elections,
Senator Reed interrupted to ask:
you don't care when You get $4,000,
10 YOU
'Not a bit" the witness replied,
but | would need about $4,000 to
combat some Democratic conditions
shere"
Democrats paid from So TO $4,000
Tor votes in Georgia this year, he
continued, and generally spent more
money than the Republicans"
Not one cent given to me was Civ
en- to any delegate to the Republican
national convention" the witness de
rIared. He said he received $4,000
from Illinois, but not from Governor
Lowden himself" He spent $1,000 or
$4,000 of his own money, he added,
and $4,000 was raised from other
sources