Weekly journal-miner., 1920-09-14
(From Sundays Dailvl

NFIOm sunday OallyJ
 CHICAGO, Sept. 1.-The senate committee investigating campaign expenditures today closed two weeks inquiry into charges of Gov ernor Cox that the republican party is seeking a $15,OOOOOO fund.
 The sessions here also developed testimony bearing on charges that the democratic party solicited osm- paign contributions from federal of flee holders, and accepted unlimited amounts from other contributors.
 Republican plans for a seven day drive for funds in Chicago and testi- mony that the democrats had as- sessed girl employees of the internal revenue office at Aberdeen, 5. D. $40 each, to help finance the demo- cratic campaign were topics today.
 Frederick C. Barber of New fork. a professional money raiser in charge of the Chicago republican dirce testi- fled he had prepared card index of about 25,000 prospective contribu- tors, including a preferred list or some 700 to 800 each of whom was believed to give Sl000. Upward of 5000 workers will be engaged in the one week drive he said with S5O0000 as the goal. Testimony by Caleb Enix, local newspaperman that the republican committee had sent out publicity matter giving the Chicago quota as $700,000 led MT. Barber to say he had heard others make the same statement, but he let them rave"
 His goal, he said, was S500,0O0.
 "Blackjack' Explained
 Miss Eunice Coyne, a newspaper reporter, III Aberdeen and Mss jesse Burchard of Minneapolis, clerks in the Aberdeen internal revenue col lector office told Oi the democratic effort to raise money from girl clerks.
 Miss Burchard said, she bad given $40 rom her salary ot qlzJ a month alter receiving letter from a dem ocratic campaign fund raiser request ing her to cali at his hotel and ar range this matter
 About a dozen girl clerks went 10 the hotel, she testified, ana suPscrlO- ed S4J each. A copy ot the .ettcr sad to have been received by the 8Iris was presented Dy -AisS COyuef who sad she mad received II from stem Osrapner. Miss Coyne sad some Of the letters were deidyed because they bore insufficient postage and that the sII.s had 10 Day one Gen, OA tAei- uueu luey were delivered
 "I4sey mad even 10 pay postage ln getting duus i--la ,uc uo...O-. ---. 4-- -uey 5eu4t.r r-euy oq uo.aneht-u.
 lss CoyIe saia sEe understood the girls wnO were ds4>ed tO cOut-l- a bute were all dependlnJ on tueir 9l-U d month ,=lales ta~t most ot them were iuIHg away from nOrn~, .H because rent ana tuus losez G.gn IA A0-,,O-A .-- relieve they could afford 1t.
 A ue spaper s,Ory vru,en by .lss ~oyne referred to the money raising -moar tl1 girls as black lacking 4Ed Sen tuI Ne-u, .>A.-c u III explanation ol the term; Miss ocyue said 1t was q newspaper word ,yuomyonouS with blackmalL
 ou would nave uscu Nno"s'~- V ord Il you had -",u-. NE- .t.- heayon -sA>-
 . .--se $ any word too. strong to be used for tAls episode.
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 Ba-,t -d NJ -oy cO.~ t iris ul lenied trey w re -fraid oi losin ] cir j.b> t ,ute.
 You think then ~s .sfed that the girls all contributed Yrt of their enthusiasm for the dem 5cratc cause"
 "I fo'
 50 there was just a spontaneous ,utburst of enthusiasm?
 Evidently"
 "Irfsmv" S7y7 Ks
 Senator Kenyon characterized the olicitation Of funds from girl em- doves Of the government as worse n its infamy" than the raising of thousands or dollars from meq out ide of goyerr-nent circles.
 "You're Right" Says Reed.
 aT agree with you, senator Sen tor Reed sa1d, that to ley m any sav political assessment upon iri working for the government bsoiutely IueXcusaDie.