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ing any promises to any one," Mr.. Hays
said: "Well, there is the stateme MT
about the British Ambassador con-
tributing to Mr.. Cox's campaign, and
have heard lot of rumors by ire
sponsible persons in which have taken
no particular stock"
Senator Reed then asked him:
Where did you get your information
of the misuse of the government funds
and machinery?"
81 refer you to speeches of Senator
Smoot in the United States Senate. 1t
is a matter of Congressional record"
In his statement which he read be-
fore the committee, Chairman Hays
took the charges Of Governor Cox
under six headings. He said:
Governor Cox has charged:
81. That certain interests were
banded together to buy the Presidency,
and that millions had been contributed
to the Republican party with sinister
intent. That statement is false.
"2. That there is deliberate plot
that hasebeen carried into every county
in America in conspiracy to buy the
Presidency of the United States. That
statement is also false.
"3. That others are writing large
checks so that if their puppets or tools
controversies they can have the bayo-
net to enforce their will That state
ment is also false.
Corruption Fund Denied
"a. That millions have been contrib
uted through corrupt source in fur
thcrance of Republican conspiracy to
buy an underhold on the Presidency;
that the Republican fund, not a cam
paign fund, but a corruption fund, will
not be less than $15,000,0 900. That
statement is also false.
IS. That a quota fixing assessments
to be raised by certain cities, mounting
to over $S,00O,000, was adopted at a
meeting at which Mr.. Upham and
were present. That charge is also false
No such quotas were ever adopted at
any such meeting or at any other time
or place, and no operation had under
any such quota.
"6. He has made other statements
charging a slush fund for corrupt pur-
poses, subscribed in the names OF
dummy contributors, to be used to cor
rupt the electorate. These statements
are also false.
81 now say that each and all of these
several charges are absolutely false in
what they say and libelous in their pur-
pose"
Taking up the question of the fnanc-
ing of the Republican campaign, Mr..
Hays testified that the Republican bud
get for the forthcoming campaign called
for an expenditure of $3O79, ,O37 20,
with an additional $1,O00,O0O to be
spent in state campaigns. Mr.. Hays
asserted that the Republicans were ad-
herring strictly to their decision to limit
campaign gifts to 81 900 and that he
knew of. only thirtyeight cases in
cd hno
this rule. The largest single subscrip-
ton received by the party was for S9,-
600, he said
Mr.. Cummings followed Mr.. Hays on
the stand. He was unable to give fig
ures or facts. He explained that most
of the questions asked him could be an
swered better by Mr.. White, who is to
be the next witness.
Mr.. Cummings thought that s2,ooo,-
campaign" He said the fact that
everything was higher in price now
than IN 1916 made no difference, as he
had had more experience and greater
economy could be practiced.
He said that in 1916 he had spent
S500,000 in advertising at the last
minute, when he could have obtained
the advertising much easier had he
made contracts.
He was questioned closely as to his
knowledge of Federal employees at the
San Francisco convention He said that
he was too busy to take census of
those who attended,"
How Democrats Get Money
Mr. Cummings explained the fund
gathering organizations which Mr..
Hays revealed had been established by
the Democrats in Washington. He
said the project grew from hope"
Later it was found that the overhead
expenses were from $4,000 to $4,000
month in excess of the receipts and
the bureau was reduced in size. He
said it was intended as bureau for
both propaganda and finance
Mr. Cummings said that he had not,
to his knowledge, estimated last year
that the Democrats would need
$10,000,000 for the 1920 campaign.
Asked how much he thought they would
need, he said his opinion was about
100000 more than in 1916" Previ-
ously he had placed the amount spent
in 1916 at $2,300,00O.
The question of whether Governor
Cox should be subpnnaed to appear
before the committee and prove his
charges of the existence of a Republi-
can "slush fund" was raised in the
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Mr.. Hays, but was put over Senator
Reed had been objecting that news
paper reports were hearsay evidence
and the committee ought to be getting
facts.
DO l understand that you think
Governor Cox ought to be subpenaed ?"
asked Senator Edgo, of New Jersey.
IF you are going to try this case on
what the newspapers say let us go
ahead that way" Senator Reed replied
"But if we are going to base this on
sworn facts let us have the men here
who know the facts"
The Senator said that under pres
ent circumstances" he did not think it
wise to call either Governor Cox or
{ Senator Harding.
"But if any member of the committee
wants to summon Governor Cox" he
added, "don't let it be understood that