The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-05-25
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BACK EDWARDS
SAYSMANAGER
Sum of $404,98 is Lowden S
Fund - Wood Harding
Fight in Ohio MADE New
berry Piker''.
HOOVER FUND $4,000
(By Associated Press)

WASHINGTON, D. c., May 25-
Walter w. Wick, manager of the presi-
Dental campaign of Governor Ed
wards Of New Jersey, denied before
the senate committee today that any
liquor interests were underwriting"
the governors campaign. He testi-
fled that the total fund raised for his
candidate was $4,000.
w. Beller, of Washington, appear
ing for Senator Owens, Okla, was the
first witness today. Oklahoma sup
porters of the senator, he testified,
raised $3.50 for the campaign and
$4,000 was given through Washing
ton headquarters.
Hoover Funds $685. ,332
Expenditures of $66,332 exclusive of
the California primary expense have
been made in the campaign Of Her
bert Hoover for the Republican presi-
Dental nomination, John F. Lucey,
manager for Hoover, testified. Total
receipts were placed at $62,1S5.
A statement that $4O4,9S4.7s had
been spent in behalf of Governor
Lowden, Republican, Illinois. and a
charge that the outlay in the Ohio
primary contest between Senator
Harding, Republican, of that state,
and Major General Leonard Wood,
made Senator Newberry's Michigan
campaign look like piker" were the
high spots of the testimony at the
opening day Of the investigation
Monday.
Frank H. Hitchcock, former post
master general, who appeared as the
representative Of General Wood, threw
but little light on the generals cam
paign expenses.
Harding's Man Later
Senator Harding's manager will be
examined later, as will be a number
OF Wood managers, including William
Cooper Proctor, of Cincinnati; A. A
Sprague, of Chicago; Horace C. Steb.
bins, Of New York, and John H. Price,
Of Cleveland.
L. l.. Emerson, secretary of state
for Illinois, was the spokesman for
Governor Lowden. He was armed with
records and cancelled checks and gave
figures, names, dates and localities.
OF the total spent for Governor Low.
den, he said $379,175.7S was contrib
uted by the governor himself. Friends
gave $35,825, he testified, before col
lections were stopped on orders from
Mr.. Lowden.
Detailing expenditures, Mr.. Emer
J son testified that total of 156,243
was sent into different states, the
Michigan primary campaign with 80,
141, taking the most.
E. H. Moore, of Youngstown, O..
Governor Cox's campaign manager
testified today before the senate cam
paign investigating committee.
''Our contributions" he said, "are
made up solely from friends of the
governor, outside of $4,000 he gave
himself. We had no eminent reform
ers, as some here have. There are
"a men who have contributed amounts
hanging from 5000 to $4,000; 1t totals
$19,6S1."
Naming larger contributors, Mr.
Moore said H. G. Firestone gave
$1,000; ]. J. Whitacre, $4,000; ex-Gov
ernor James E. Campbell, $1,5O0; H
P. Wolfe, $500; Charles E. Morris
$1,000. and Harry Newman, $500. AL
are Ohio men.
Bernard NJ. Baruch. representing
William G. McAdoo, Democrat anc
c. c. Carlin. who has been aiding At
torney-General Palmer in his contest
for the nomination, were expected tC
follow. A number of others connect
ed prominently with the various can
didates have been summoned but the
time of their appearance had not beer
announced.