New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-25
Kenyon Joins
Reed and Pomerene.
Democrats, in Eff to
Discredit Republicans
$4l4,ooo Spent by
Governor LOWden
johnson Stump Speaker
Shows Little Interest in
Cox s Expenditures

From, The Tribunc's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, May PA specia
Senate committee investigating Presi.
Dental primary expenditures opened its
hearings to-day. Two purposes seemed
to guide the committee. One, on the
part of Senator Kenyon, chairman, who
has been stumping for Hiram Johnson
was to smash General Wood as hard as
possible. The other, on the part OF
the two Democrats on the committee
Reed, of Missouri, and Pomerene, OF
Ohio-was to give all the Republican
candidates as black an eye as possible
with view to the campaign after the
conventions.
Summed up, the committee founc
out:
That Governor Lowden of Illinois
has spent $414,O0O in his campaign
for the Republican nomination, of
which sum he contributed $379, 900;
that the $4,000 contributed for Low
den was accepted without his knowl-
edge; that Lowden insisted from the
first that he wished to finance his
campaign himself
Called Scandal"
That, according to Edmond n
Moore, manager for Governor Cox of
Ohio, Senator Harding and Wood
spent more money in Ohio than ever
mas been spent in any previous cleo
ton campaign by both parties; that
1uli information concerning the in
EQUITIES of Harding and Wood, which
were matter of public scandal"
could be obtained from their man
ayers, each accusing the other.
That Frank H. Hitchcock, political
manager OF the Wood campaign. did
not know a thing about the finances.
obJected to palatial headquarters in
New York, opposed the extravagant
use OF campaign literature and de-
clined to employ flying squadrons"
Eastern and Southern states.
That in the neighborhood of s85. QUO
vas spent on behalf of Senator
Johnson east of the Rocky Noun
tains, less than $1,000 of this sum
being obtained by contributions Of
from 81 to $40; that johnson didn't
go into the South because he ]acLad
funds; that his managers spent
every cent they could raise by per
sonal solicitations and that one man.
a rich young Pennsylvania, r. B.
Strassberger, contributed $4,000.
,That $4,000, of which $4,000 was
contributed by three New York men.
nad been spent in behalf of Senator
Miles Poindexter, of Washington, for
the Republican nomination.
Ihat the managers of Senator
Sutherland's boom in West Virp;nia
were trying to win tomorrow bv
"strlctly gumshoeing" campaign and
that the Wood managers were spend
ing money freely in that state, al
though K: j. Hershey, Sutherland's
manager, had no direct knowledge of
the misuse of money. Sutherland is
Republican "favorte son."
Ihat Governor Cox of Ohio, the
only Democratic candidate whose
manager was questioned, had a fund
OF $12,0OO, about half of which was
spent in Kentucky, the remainder be-
ing used in general propaganda.
From the outset it was evident the
committee was after General Wood
Besides Senator Kenyon the Republican
members are Edge, New JERSEY. and
Spencer. of Missouri. The Democrats
are Reed and Pomerene. KENYON. it is
said, consulted Reed and Pomerene
ABOUT plans for the investigation and
ignored the Republican members.
In Johnson's Interests
This fact naturally led to the as
sumption that the investigation is be-
ing made in the interests of Johnson
The Democrats are helping Kenyon anG
at the same time making some good
campaign material for their own pur-
poses. They are taking full advantage
OF the various quarrels among the Re
publicans.
From Hitchcock the committee mem
bers expected to unearth scandal in
the South: But the former Postmast ter
General disappointed them. He knew
nothing about the use of money in the
South. He represented himself as a
"purist" in politics. The Wood man
agement, he conceded, had made many
mistakes. These he had tried to help
correct since his entrance into the
managership last March.
The committee was advised that
Colonel William Cooper Proctor, A. A,
Sprague, of Chicago, and Horace Steb-
bins, of New York, can furnish list
of all the contributions to the Wood
fund, as we'll as all of the expenditures
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