Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-05-24
REED DEMAND 6
REAL FACTS.

REAL FACTS.
Senator Reed a democratic member of
the investigating committee. halted the
( questioning to demand that the commit
/ tee make rule either to get specific tes-
timony or to require a written statement.
The Michigan campaign, Hitchcock
said, was financed by local people and
/ no money was spent from the national
/ funds.
I He could give no idea as to how much
was raised in Michigan and Wisconsin
/ and nothing was sent from national head
/ quarters TO Rhode Island, Connecticut or
Delaware
/ Illinois and Ohio were financed from
western headquarters, Hitchcock stated.
adding that he opposed contests in both
/ Of these states.
/ Hitchcock said that he knew nothing
about disbursements from Chicago head
+ quarters.
The Dupont interests contributed TO
Woods campaign in Delaware. the Wit
ness declared.
As to Ohio. Hitchcock said big ex-
/ renditures were made. hut from the
/ Chicago headquarters to the Wood cam
/ paign.
Hitchcock said he knew nothing about
I the Wood publicity campaign because
that, too, was conducted from Chicago.
| Answering questions by Senator Ken
/ yon, Hitchcock, denied he had set IN
contesting delegations in southern states
{ ard don't intend TO-" he added.
/ NEGRO BROUGHT
/ INTO TESTIMONY.
/ He asserted reports from Georgia that
! the Opposition" to Wood was spending
! great deal Of money caused Woods
/ managers to send $4,000 into that state.
/ Pressed to tell who the opposition"
was. he said he did not know, but that
/ its leader was Henry Lincoln Johnson,
negro politician.
/ he said the so-ca1led Wood delegation
/ in Mississippi was not a legally elected
one and said that he had had nothing
J to do with it for that reason
/ Senator Reed wanted to know where
real headquarters" are and who had
general direction and management.
Hitchcock replied that headquarters
were where Gen. Wood is.
| That is generally Chicago. he added.
/ Senator Reed cross-examined Hitch
cock and asked about salaries paid en-
rloyes at Wood headquarters, the num-
Der Of employees, the size Of headGuar
ters.s etc.
Hitchcock declared he did not know
any Of these things.
I Hitchcock said he knew that the cam
paign, which consisted largely of cir
cularizing the country, was 'unneces-
sarily large"
at was a mistake to have such ex-
tensive headquarters, he said, "as it took
all the money that was given"
EvADEs DIRECT
QUESTION OF REED.
Going back to specific contributions
from the Wood headquarters to various
states. Hitchcock listed the following.
Alabama, $500: Massachusetts, 5000;
Vermont, less than 5000: Pennsylvania,
nothing; Connecticut, nothing; Rhode
Island, nothing
Reed asked how many paid workers for
Wood were sent out to travel about the
country setting up fences for Wood
81 don't favor that so under me, it
wouldn't be done"
CAME LIKE CIRCUS.
WHEELING MAN SATS.
DR.. Randolph j. Hecsey, Wheeling W.
Va, submitted a brief statement of the
expenses of Senator Howard Suther-
lands campaign.
He said S473 was contributed and $445
of it spent for printing.
Hersey was questioned about Wood
expenditures in the state.
I'VE wouldn't have had to spend as
muCA as we Ulu II II Aal AOl OSSA A0A
Woods INVASION" he said.
"Gross extravaganza was indulged In
on behalf of Wood
He came into the state just like
circus
"They hired bands and had private
street cars to carry Wood speakers from
town to town.
Angus McSween, Hiram Johnson's east
ern manager, was the next witness.
He submitted list of contributors and
expenditures.
He said the eastern organization con-
sists of three men, a woman and two
stenographers
Alexander McCabe, state insurance com
missioner of California, had charge of
western headquarters.
The contributions, Mcsween said.
totaled $68, ,130.
The largest was from r. B. Stras-
burger, Morristown. Pa. who gave S27 500.
Among other contributors listed were
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