The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-28
COX APPARENTLY HAS PROOF FOR MAKING CHARGES Official Bulletin Itself Con- firms Much of the Data Given for Fifty-one
 Cities
By CLINTON W. GILBERT

ms promised eV1QenCe CHdL CHe
 republican national committee
 was collecting a campaign fund
 of $15,000,O00 created g
 tremendous sensation.
 The auditorium. seaaing 5000 people.
 was crowded. and the audience applaud.
 ed his presentation of his case as no au-
 dience has yet applaudsd him in this
 campaign, and in addition the governor
 had to tell his story to big crowd out side the hall, who failed to gain admit
 tance.
 The speech was sensational because,
 for the first time in American history. R candidate for President has been .f able to bring to the support of his X charges that his opponents were raising bs a vast campaign fund. the official doc-
 urnents of the opposition showing the 3ssork of their treasurer.
 M These documents are available for the
 Kenyon Senate committee which inves-
 tigated the use of money in the pri-
 maries, if the committee wishes. They 4 consist of copieu of tho Official Bulle- % tin, Treasurers Office, of the Republi- < can National Committee" What tho gov ernor read in his speech from that pub { lication, which was intended. so 1t Is { said, only for the eyes of the money collectors, came directly from the printed paper itself. Tho governor has copies of i 1t.
 WAS A HOUSE ORGAN"
 It was a sort of house organ of the republican national committee's treasury, similar to the house organs published by corporations and intended to stimu : late the work of collections by telling them how well the work was going forward in different parts of the coun- try In addition to printed copies of this journal tho governor. had type
 written list of fifty-one cities. giving them, their quotas" to use the language of the official bulletin.
 This typewrftten list of cities with their amounts was said by the xoyernor to have been distributed at . meeting held In Chicago. The governor did not give the date. According to the governor, Chairman Hays spoke at the meeting.
 On this typewritten list the governor largely bases his estimate of the amount of the republican campaign fund. The official bulletin shows the organization for the collection. It's methods make plain that the methods of Liberty bond selling were applied to the raising of republican money. It indicates that cities and regions, as in the war time collec- tions. quotas assigned to them, but 1t seldom mentions the amount of these quotas, though in one or two cases, the amounts tend to confirm the accuracy of the governors typewritten list of fifty one cities anc their quotas.
 STANDS ON THE LIST
 Governor Cox's charge that tho sum being collected by the republicans will be at least $15.ooo,ooo stands or falls on the authenticity of that list of fifty one.cities and their quotas. If $S,O0O, 900 arc to be collected in these cities it is easy to believe that the country wide organization for collecting funds revealed in the official bulletin will yield as much more.
 Obviously. q typewritten sheet Is not as good evidence as Is . printed house organ-like the official bulletin. There fore. in analysing the governors evil dencs is important to consider every thing that tends to confirm or dis discredit the list of fifty-one cities and their quotas. The. letter of Mr. Blair. quoted from the official bulletin, tends to show that there was a list of cities which had quotas assigned to them. It does not show whether the quotas given on the typewritten sheet in the governors possession were the true quotas or not. On this point svi- dence is not abundant. but so far as 1t goes 1t tends to support the governor. Chicago is on the governors list for $76o. 1000.
 MT. Fred Upham. the republican treasurer. has recently said that Chi cago had contributed 3100, 900. Cleve- land Is on the governors list for 940o,- 900. MT. Blossom. in charge of Cleve- land collections. has recently given t40o, ,o00 as Cleveland's quota. Colum- bus O.. is down on the governors list o1n rrA- g~t- August 10. prints the telegram from Columbus saying: 'aThen. too. the end is not yet for it is probable that the sum of $1b0.000 for the state and na- tional treasury will stand to the credit of Columbus before the 1st of Sep- tember." This divisional director. H. E. | Owens. tells how "the trick was turned" and praises Kelly, the Colum- bus collector. Evidently the $15o.0o0 ] quota Also. if Columbus. . compara- lively small city, gave, as the bulletin 1 says, $150,00o it>is not difficult to be- lieve in tho quotas of the other cities l in the governors typewritten list.
 INSIDE INFORMATION
 So far as it goes the evidence tends to support the governors type written list of cities with their quotas | amounting to more than $8,000, 900. It l is not conclusive, but the democrats | have evidently had some source of in l formation within the republican treas l urer's office. It Is no harder to be- | lieve that they got the list of cities l than that they got file of the of l ficial bulletin intended only for re- publican treasury eyes.
 With regard to collections elsewhere | than in the fifty-one cities the bulletin l abounds in evidence. Collections are | spoken of in Chattanooga. Nashville, | Knoxville. all in Tennessee: Pontiac, | Saginaw, Alma. Bay City, Ann .Arbo-, | Jackson. Battle Creek. Grand Rapids, 1 Grand Haven, all in Michigan; Kenosha, | Wis, Phoenix. Tucson, Douglas and | Yuma, Ariz.; Portsmouth O.: Sioux Falls, S. D., all cities not included in the | original fifty-one. And also in the | states of Arkansas. Georgia, North Carolina. Maine, Louisiana. Colorado, Arizona. Florida and Illinois.
 A nationwide campaign to collect funds Is disclosed in the bulletin. The amount to be collected depends upon the authenticity of Governor Cox's list of the fifty-one cities and their quotas, and the known facts about the quotas of Chicago. Cleveland and Columbus
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