Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-03
DEMOCRATS Trying
TO SAVE COx'S FACE
Will Attempt to Present Some
Evidence to Justify Making
of Charges
REMAIN FULL OF FIGHT
by CLINTON w. GILBERT
Stan Correspondent ~ the Evening Publ,
LEDGER

CopDrioht. 1920. BY PyhHc Ledger Co.
Chicago. Sept. 3.--When the Kenyon
investigating committee meets again
next Tuesday the real effort Of the
Democrats to make tho Cox campaign
fund charges stick will begin. The Dem
ocratic senator's on the committee and
the Democratic campaign managers here
are full Of fight as the result Of the con e
ferences with Governor Cox and OF
their going over the evidence with Judge
Edmond H. Moore. tine governors per-
sonal representative.
They talked boldly of sending some =
body to the penitentiary. 1t is reported
that the source from which the Demo
cratic candidate obtained his list of
cities and their quotas will be disclosed
and that the disclosure will be impress
sive. One may discount both Drcdic-
tions. In Republican circles the name
OF the mnn who gave the governor his
evidence and especially the typewrittpn
list of cities is whispered about freely.
But it is all suspicion and manifestly
unfair to print the name unless voun-
tarily disclosed by the person himself
There will probably be some evidence
to show that this list Of cities came from
Republican national headquarters and
was officially prepared. although the
evidence does not connect Mr.. Hayes or
Mr.. Cpham with It. Republicans who
know the facts conrcde that when they
are brought out Governor Cox will
have established "a talking point." but
that he will have failed to show the ac-
tual collection of excessive funds.
Will BE Much Talking
The talking point. they say. will be
the existence of quotas for cities and
localities out of all proportion to the
state quota testified to by Treasurer Up
ham. When it Is all over the Demo
Gratis will probably insist that the Re-
publicans intended to raise these large
quotas. And the Republicans will de-
clare that these large quotas were fixed
solely for money raising purposes and
that there had never been any Intention
to collect moro than the three millions
necessary for the budget Of the national
committee.
The calling of the field officers and
state finance directors nS witnesses in
dicatcs the direction the inquiry will
take. The Democrats propose to find
out from these men what il was pro-
posed to raise in the various cities and
localities.
What actually happened in one state
was learned from n Republican member
Of the finance committee of that state.
According to him, the state quota tcs-
tilted to by Mr.. Cpham was handed
over to the state finance representa-
tives. They assigned to the cities and
regions in the state sums to be collected
largely in excess of Mr.. Upham's state
quota. The enthusiastic methods of the
various liberty loans and Y. VI. G. 4.
drives prevailed. In order to get the
amount asked for from the state an
amount was demanded of each locality
whose total was much greater
All Quotas Magnifed
In some cases the quota asked for
from a city was three times what would
have been it's reasonable share of the
state quota fixed by Mr.. Upham. In
other cases double the reasonable share
was asked for. In some instances com
muniteS volunteered to raise two or
three times as much money as would
have been necessary for them to raise
In orGer to realize the quota fixed for
the entire state. 1t is said that no
such sums as local collectors set out
to get have been collected. or even will
be collected. or that any one ever seri-
ously thought they could be generally
collected.
II Governor Cox establishes his talk
Ing point there will be n disposition in
political circles to place the blame upon
the professional money raisers brought
into the work collecting the campaign
fund from the Liberty Loan and \.
NJ. G. A. drives. Said one Republi
can today: These men did not realize
how badly boaSting about the vast sums
they could raise would sound in poll
tics. They were living in the atmosphere
of the war money drives"
While 1t is probable that quotas for
cities were fixed out of all proportion
TO the quotas for the state established
by Mr.. Upham. there is nothing yet to
show that those given on the type
written list made public by Governor
Cox were the actual quotas assigned by
local authorities or by Republican
money drivers to the cities. The Demo
Gratis are striving to prove that the
governor quotas were correct and they
hope to show it by the testimony Of
the men in the field who actually set out
TO collect the money in the various
states and cities. That is their pur-
pose in calling the state and local
finance agents of the Republican party.
Democrats Maintain Stand
JntOEN IL lHul tHt lNtI'uDll'uIl
Testimony so far has been false. that the
amounts to be collected by the various
cities we're decided upon as Governor
Cox charged by the national officials
Of the Republican party and that the
list of quotas given out by the Demo-
cratic candidate was prepared by the
responsible national officials Of the
party.
The best way to reconcile the con
flicting evidence in the case is to assume
that the national officials OF thr party
merely made out the state quotas and
left the methods Of collection within
the states and the assignment of quotas
TO cities and localities to the state
hnance ooG'rs bor ime me- e''aSGT tahb .h" lem EN-
the typewriter sheet Of city quotas
which Governor Cox had in his possession
was made up at national headquarters