The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-01
HAYS AND OPHAM STRONGLY DENY
 CHARGES OF COX
Table of State Quotas Totals $4,491 500, But Treasurer Says He Only Needs
 $3,000,OOO
By AssocIated Press

| campaign expenditures today. Will H. Hays, Fred Upham and other party leaders found occasion for further de- nial of Governor Cox's charges that a $15.e0o,o0O fund was being raised and also took occasion to offer the commit tee leads directed toward the demo- cratic coffers.
 H MT. Upham, treasurer of the repubn- A can national committee. was questioned M at great length by Senators Pomerene & and Reed, democrats, who elicited from M him information that the congr essional N senatorial campaign committees of the kparty had budgets totaling sYoo,ooo in k addition to the more than three mil T lion dollar budget appearing in Chair 5 man Hays testimony yesterday. At 4 S,fnator Reeds request. MT. Upham, the Q, Shtional treasurer read table of state 38H iIotas, which the witness said he had 79F Jade up fourteen months before Sena- -M fr Harding was nominated This table ktaled s4,491,500, but Mir Upham ex- |. plained that he had no hope or desire to collect more than $3000.000 of this Amount
 Senator Reed delved deeply into the amounts assigned counties, cities and other local subdivisions of the party leanization. but did not shake MT. Up ls denial that he had no knowledge
 the city quota list which Governor read in his speech at Pittsburgh week. The questioning by the souri senator finally led to the
 Int where MT. Upham said he did not know how much of the various thte quotas was assigned to particular bcalities. He said he knew of only Two city financial directors of the party in the country, one each in Chi hago and New York, but he hoped fthere were a lot more"
 NO CITY QUOTAS
 T never saw a quota for any city in 1.-the United States" said MT. Upham. T lassigned only the state quotas and how Ithese were subdivided by the state or Iganizations was none of my affair"
 NO, but you were responsible for lthem in law, fact and conscience so Ilong as these subdivisions were made agents of your committee and so long as these agents did nothing criminal in Icarrying out your system" rejoined Senator Reed.
 Senator Reed then argued there was no way to limit the amounts that I,nikht be collected in any one state, Iss11d MT. Upharn retcrtod that he would atop then before they got to three A :ai;1ion dollars"
 IsdNXr Uphanl agreed with Senator F9mer enc that it was both possible and urohable that large sums would De 3A3xed in industrial centers by each sarty of which the national officers of He party would have no Knowledge. Me witness said no one knew what mounts would be expended by county JfKanizations and then reverting to he list of fifty-one cities which Gov srf1or Cox used, he said he had never saArd statement that only four copies fthiS list were made
 MIGHT BE BULL
 MT. Upham turned over a complete ile of the treasurer's official bulletins. (which Governor Cox also referred. senator Reed pointed out discrepancies .afw cen some items In the bulletin and ! le list of state receipts given the com afttee by MT. Upham. The latter de- Jared the language of the bulletin, (-- thich he said was designed to encour- lge the field workers, might be taken Is manifestation of good salesman n = lhip. over-enthusasm. or just plain lnll.'
 Under questioning by Chairman Ken ! lon. MT Upham said the list of more han thirty thousand contributors turned Yer to the committee represented the 1 t1ouble purpose to popularize the cam hign fund and at the same time get lany stockholders. knowing that the lockholders would vote the ticket He Lid that there had been no contributions om large interests and when the 1904 tuation was recalled by Senator Ken nb bn, he remembered that Messrs. Ryan N nd Belmont of New York were supposed N have given S5oo0Oo each to the demo- Iatic campaign fund of that year.
 l'Do you know the numerous farmers shd small business men in little towns ho have contributed to this years fund EN little as a dollar or less are the people
 whom Governor Cox referred as in- hiding to employ bayonets to keep labor lwn?" asked Senator Kenyon.
 iI could not tell you what he is gettins II" replied MT. Upham, but l should
 these people are the best we have {this country.
 N 77.OO0 IN MASSACHUSET
 te national treasurer said Senator wt ks of Massachusetts had reported Is than TOGO subscriptions from that h& \ which was ten times the number
 Thy precious campaign. The contri-
 bns from the state of Washington
 \ ne 61<& ever received from there
 Ine rSsle3 {5ean national committee. he saTmf &sSingle contribution of more Ln n TT Es come from New York but II afI7snr& lwas not familiar with the tnfif& vf 6he contributors.
 Irr1l1~e ynay be contribution there t,s-S6xn B Rockefeller for all know, k6Sirnnaa Hays resumed the stand to t,s1SE aenator Reed information as to ,mittee's budget for advertising Jer1re{om language newspapers He said
 Q&x had no appropriation for tha; ,..l 15n64 but hoped to some of its
 n that direction, having an item
 VIVID which, perhaps, might become
 .513&1e In that connection Mir. Hays
 nI& over to the committee letter knNan advertising agency which stated If the democratic organization was
 nS1ng to insert 1000 inches of adver-
 mx ..in the best foreign langua ge Epapers" He said advertising experts tH there were 9A publications whicf
 khtnbe placed in such category and
 IF if would cost sss5 0oo to carry out
 F Fskorrainme outlined in the letter.
 Is0xN TO PAY SPEAKER
 kuxtor New of Indiana was called ,e
 v'&S As to the salaries paid campaign
 h1{Sre He said he had planned to paS
 lew sneakers who could not af-
 H4n devote time from their regular
 0 campaigning. He promised te ~ I,3byer to the committee all his cor N R,nndence with such men.
 ENonator Edge, republican. New Jer- asked Mr. New if there were any ks of speakers seeking work from
 Xh major parties The witness pro
 ued correspondence with Prof. Johr
 Hall formerly Willamette Univer.
 Saler,. Oregon. which, he said
 hished an example of that practice
 Inc correspcadence showed thai
 vfessor Hall vas recommended tS