The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-08-30
FIVE MILLION TO
Be G. 0. O.P.LIMIT
Will Hays Denies to SIush
Fund Probers $15,0Oo,.
600 Will Be Spent.
ATTACKS DEMOCRATS


: says Opponents Raising Tel
Millions-Reed Has Clash
With Witness.
Chicago. Aug. S0,-(A. P)-The re
publican campaign for 1920 will be car
ried on at total expenditure of 81. 600
ooU. according to testimony given her
= s'oday before the senate committee In
vestigating sampaign funds The state
meht was made by VIII Hays, chairma
or the national republican committe,
but he explained that $1.100. 900 of tn
total had been expended by the organi
zatlon which went out of Office at tn
end or the republican national conven
ton.
Mr.. Hays emphasized that the presen
national republican committee had
budget OF approximately $4,000 900 an
that $1.000,000 of the total expected I
pass through the committees treasur
would be allotted back to the states 70
strictly state purposes.
The testimony was in the nature of
reply to charges made by Gov. Cox
democratic presidential nominee, tha
the republican fund would total SIS,
100000. Mr. Hays denied this charg
and also denied positively that any "bi
money interests" had underwritten tn
republican expenses.
HAYS CALLS 1T LIBEtoUs.
"This $i5,ooO, 900 corruption fund
that Gov. Cox speaks OF. Do you
know how II was to be used TO cor.
rupt the public" Senator Kenyon
asked. =
,Ihat Statement Is as false as It
Is dbelous," Mr.. Hays declared,
Never Saw Quota Sheet.
Taking up the specific charges In, ,
Governor cox's Pittsburgh speech,
senator Kenyon questioned Mr..
Hays about the much discussed
quota sheet" from which the dem.
ocratic nominee read figures to
$s,i45,ooo In ffty.one principal
! cities.
2 Mr.. Hays denied ever having seen
or heard OF the quota sheet; denied
ever having been at meeting
where II was distributed or dis
susaed, s.s .n ard declared inquiry BY him
party leader who had heard Of II.
Called Cox "Wet."
Mr.. Hays submitted to the commit
tee letter from George T. Carroll as
president Of the New Jersey Associa-
tion of Liquor Interests" He read
from 1t sentences soliciting funds tc
carry on Cox propaganda with the ul-
innate object of obtaining an amend
ment to the Volstead act to permit sale
of light wines and beers. The letter
called Gov. Cox pronounced wet"
Senator Kenyon asked Mr. aHys II
the committee had received any con-
tributions from corporations.
NO" the witness said.
You estimate, then that the cam
paign will cost about s5,000,000?"
Yes, but that includes more thar
$l.OOO,0O spent in state campaigns and
assigned to the states"
THE campaign budget or estimate
was worked out beginning as of July 1
OF a total amount which would be needed
for the actual campaign. and this was
$S.079, ,0S720," Mr.. Hays said. OF this
total. S25b 100 appoEtioned to tht
speakers bureau. Y headquarters ex.
pelses was set at $75o,s24 for Wash
|ington, New York. Boston. Chicago
Denver and San Francisco, and rents
for all headquarters were estimated at
$45,643.
Other Appointments.
For publicity s1,346.50O wa appro-
priated and for miscellaneous objects
such as bureaus Of clubs, shipping de-
patments and distribution, freight, eX-
press. all travelling and other ex-
penses incident to raising of money
Sb0U.9ZU was set aSlue.
1T is my opinion that the tota
amount will be necessary for the ma
tonal committee to spend" said Mr.
Hays. "There may be expenses arising
1 of course, that we cannot now antici-
pate, but this is approximately the
amount that we believe necessary.
This does not. of course. include
collections for states where there is q
mutual agreement that such collecting
f%,,, s,k- ch a
abe done jointly. While it makes the
ttotal amount that passes through the
national committee treasury greater
than is spent by the national com.
\ mittee. it gives unity of collecting ef-
fort that is desirable, both in the saw
| ing of time and labor, and less bother
1 to the one who is solicited.
"It is my. opinion THAT the tota
amount which has been, and will be
finally collected by the joint money
raising organizations for the use of al
state committees in their state elections
will approximate II million dollars. This
Is no part of the national committed
fund"
Mf. Hays then charged that the dem
1 odfsaflc organization had planned u
| lAise from $1,000, 600 to $4,000, 900 u
| fnAnce its presidential campaign. ant
| dHi1ed attention IN that connection t'
| the New York World of Sunday, Aug
| 24 1918, reporting meeting OF TN
1 deIiloeratic national executive commit
tee at Atlantic City. He said this ac
| count NQu0ted wv. ID. Jameson" OF TN
\ democratic national committee @s tell
| ing of plans to finance the l9Z cam
paign fund of from $5,OO0,OoO to $lo'
4 0C0 900.
4 similar article from the New Yorl
| Times of Aug. "a, 1919, was quoted ant
he then offered an excerpt from TN
| New York Tribune of Oct 26, l9i9
which said that w, ID. Jameson dl
i tional committee, has under way
colossal plan to raise funds"
Also we were advised of the con
| tinuing activities of the opposition II
| their 1918 soliciting machinery, sal'
| Mr.. Hays, with large offices in IN,
! Bond building, at Washington, and will
4 several hundred employees, whici
| money raising machinery was sald u
cost in itself several hundred Thousand
dollars.
use of governmental instruments AM
| functions by the democratic organiza
/ tion for political purposes, sendlng on
| thousands of tons of propaganda by TN
| democratic administration during IN
! paper shortage while limiting the us'
Il Of paper by the press. and that larg'
/ part Of IL was democratic political prop
| uganda, all paid for by taxpayers
moneys and were informed, too, ina
! the democratic committee even resorte'
4 to drawing drafts on bankers in who's
i banks government funds were de
Il posted wiring such bankers that the.
i had already drawn such drafts.
i we are advised also, and lately. o
4 the effort Of certain interests TO coilec
Il money outside the democratic nationa
i committee to try aid in the election o
! Gov Cox. Evidence OF this am pre-
Il pared to submit II desired"
That British Money! story.
Mr.. Hays said state committees coul'
j not continue to raise funds after re
ceiving their share collected under tn
Joint agreement and said no men 0
4 large means had ben consulted regard
i ing a plan for underwriting the re
i publican campaign. He said the com
that IL was a straight loan. He ha'