Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-07-08
PALMER'S FUND
UNDER INQUIRY
Senate Committee to In,
vestigate Expenditures
in Missouri.
MONEY USED TO
DEFEAT REED
Paid Expenses of TWENTY Eight
Delegates to State Convention
Which Repudiated Reed-Negro
Testifies Regarding Contribution Of
$4,000 From Lowden's Chest.

by Associated Press.
Chicago, July S.-The senate COM
mittee investigating expenditures will
| move to st. Louis tonight to take
up the investigation Of Attorney Gen
eral A. Mitchell Palmer's campaign
for the democratic nomination
Chairman Kenyon announced when
hearings were resumed here today.
The principal witness in the Pal
| mer investigation Will be Edward F.
Goltra, democratic national COM
mitteeman from Missouri and
Joseph T. Davis. an attorney of ST.
Louis.
A report that Goltra paid tho ex-
penses of twenty eight delegates to
the state convention which ousted
Senator Reed from his national con-
vention seat will be one of the mat
ters investigated, it was said.
Senator Reed is member Of the in
vestigating committee.
A score Of witnesses will be
subpoenaed for the st. Louis hear
ing, Chairman Kenyon said. The
session there will open at o'clock
tomorrow morning.
Henry Lincoln johnson, negro ma :
tional committeeman from Georgia.
VINO is said to have received $4,000
from the Lowden campaign chest,
was the first witness To taka +ba
stand today.
Accepts His Documents,
The committee announced it would
take under advisement ATTORNEY
Armstrong's documents, consisting of
an exhibit of fifty-two pages. hut
gave no definite intimation as to
whether 1t would go into influences
exerted in the campaign other than
thru the actual expenditure of funds.
1t was largely thru Goltra's influ-,
ence. 1t has been charged, that Sena-
TOT James A. Reed. q member of the
investigating committee. was exclud-
ed from the democratic convention at
San Francisco.
The announcement that the COM
mittee next plans to probe the demo-
cratic campaign funds came on the
Reels of sensational testimony given
earlier in the day in connection WIN.
the Wood and Lowden funds. William
Loeb. former secretary to President
Roosevelt. who described himself as
a sort of clearing house thru which
the Wood funds in the east passed,
told how the campaign of Maj. Gen.
Leonard A. Wood had been under
written by a group Of New York men
a year ago for 31,0o0,ooo.
The fund was raised, Loeb said. at
a conference at which George A.
Whalen. Rufus Patterson, Col. AM
brose Mcneil. 10th Freeman. and
others were present. Mcneil, he said
underwrote $25o,000, Whalen $3.50. 900.
William Cooper Proctor $3.50, 900.
Loeb said he agreed to get the rest,
and that J. B. Duke, the tobacco
king, was a>large contributor. George
w. Perkins gave $4,000 and H. III.
Rogers of the Standard Oil company
$780, 900.
Goes Into Moral Side.
In going into the Lowden campaign
expenditures in Missouri Senator
Reed IN his questioning dwelt upon
the moral side Of the distribution
OF funds. He asked every witness
whether he thought it proper that a
delegate should accept money from
candidate for the nomination and
then sit in the convention which
nominated him. He also asked each
witness what he thought OF the
working iout Of the primary system.
Besides Mr.. Loeb, other important
witnesses Of the day were J. L. Bah
ler, republican national COMMITTEES
man from Missouri, and L. e. Morse
OF Excelsior Springs, Mo-, described
by witnesses as the distributor of
Gov. Lowden's campaign funds in
Missouri and boss Of the Third
Missouri congressional district"
Ben F. Kesterson of Princeton. Mo.
a paroled convict turned reformer.
told how he had spent more money
in 1912 in the Roosevelt Taft cam
paign than he had In the Lowden
campaign in 1920. Kesterson was q
Taft supporter. He described a sys-
tenn Of payment by blank checks for
which he received s25 each, but
which were cashed for sums up to
$3.50.
Attack Upon Palmer.
In presenting his petition to the
committee Attorney Armstrong stated
1t was his understanding that the
committee have power to Investigate
mot only as to money subscribed and
used but also the use Of any other
means or influence, including the
promise or use Of patronage"
In this regard his petition asks an
investigation 'as to the facts show
ing the conduct Of the department of
justice in a large measure intended
to influence political personal friends,
in that 1t has favored in many and
various ways, in violation Of law. as
herein set out, to induce them and
their friends, who are delegates to
the national democratic convention at
San Francisco, to vote and work,
ESPECIALLY for the nomination Of the