Norwich bulletin., 1920-06-03
Palmer in Defense of
 HisCaIllpaigninPenn.
Resents Charges Made That Prohibition Laws Were Openly Violated.

w NdSIllHStOIl June A uSIy CiOSS- table between Attorney General Palmer and Eugene C. Bonniwell of Philadelphia, bristling with direct charges of the mis- use of federal power to let down the li-. quor bars during the Pennsylvania presi- dential primaries on the one hand and of attempted character assassination" on the other, marked senate investigation to- day of pre-eonvention campaign expendi- lures.
 The attorney general appeared unex- pectedly in the committee room during | the luncheon recess after Mir. Bonniwell | had launched a broadside of charges, in l cluding a sweeping assertion that the l whole Palmer campaign in Pennsylvania | had been a "ghastly and debasing de- graduation of law" MT. Bonniwell was i recalled to the stand to finish his testi- mony and Mir. Palmer, the first candi- date for a presidential nomination to appear at the inquiry, took a seat aSsos l the table from the witness who, it was l brought out, was a political enemy of | long standing.
 1 News of the impending verbal clash before the committee spread rapidly and the hearing room soon was crowded. When MT. Bonniwen concluded, MT. Palmer replied, opened his statement with the charged that MT Bonniwell had em- ployed 'charater assassination" methods against him in Pennsylvania for years, 1 and concluding it with the assertion that | in Pennsylvania Judge Bonniwelrs word | is not evidence of fact
 Echoes of the combat had hardly died
 away before a new element was injected
 into the committees deliberations with | the fiat refusal of Senator Edge repub-
 lican, New Jersey, to attend further ses- l SOTs Tn hat he had fled the chairmen of the full committee
 and the subcommittee of his decision
 the senator said he believed approximate
 figures on all pre-c convention expenditures
 had been obtained and that further in quiry would result only in the airing of
 Charges, counter-charges, intimations
 and insinuations" He added that nc federal law had been broken, as there was no federal presidential lprimary law tc break.
 Before MT. Palmer appeared in the
 committee room, the committee had in. 1 quired into the activities of the Plumt Plan league, made further efforts to TUT
 down presidential campaign for ". c
 McAdoo and had heard two officials O
 oil companies who had been mentioned 1T previous testimony as possible large con tributors to political campaigns.
 Edward Heating, manager of the Pluml
 Plan league, declared the league ha, . taken no part in any -pre-c convention DO l litical activity, had not contributed an, l | money and did not plan to participate il
 the convention struggles. He added how
 ever, that it did seek to defeat member e of congress who voted for the trans r portation act.
 d Mrs. Antoinette Funk of Illinois activ n in Liberty loan drives and later for tn
 democratic national committee. declare
 positively that no campaign fer obtain O ing the democratic presidential nomina : ton for McAdoo, direct or indirect, e2 e isted, much to her regret"
 Il H. F. Sinclair, New York, of the O
 company bearing his name declared l.
 had made no campaign contributions. C n been otherwies active politically, an e Norman Bridges, connected with the Dc , heney Oil interests, testified that he ha 1T contributed s1,00O to General Wood
 candidacy, but otherwise knew nothing (
 any campaign.
 d After the oil company officials had bee y excused, the cOn0'ittee came to Mir Boi y niwell. The Pennsylvania man, who W; le candidate for democratic national con
 mitteeman from that state at the recel
 primaries and opposed the Palmer nov ment with "sticker' campaign for NJ 'h Adoo delegates, was called in conneetic IS with McAdoo activity. He testified fiat ly that he had conducted that campaif
 over the direct. personal refusal of NJ
 McAdoo to have his name used, whi, rt prevented it's appearance on the ballo m and necessitated stickers.
 or In describing the interview with NJ ry McAdoo, the witness first touched on T.
 charges about the Palmer Pennsylvan
 campaign, and thereafter they fell th ,u and fast. He asserted that it was 'ge - eral knowledge" in the state that wh io the Palmer movement was threatened t lu bars had been let down. suddenly; tn
 liquor warehouses were thrown wi . open" under the eyes of department ad justice and prohibition enforcement of n1 Gers of the federal government, partic ,n larly in the "coal counties" and that t NA whole Palmer campaign not only was
 "ghastly and debasing degradation cd law but an invitation" to law violato nd Some direct references to MT. Palm of by the witness were stricken out by t on committee as personalities, and !
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