Bisbee daily review., 1920-09-02
MAY TAK PROOFS OF COP FUND 10 JUSTICE DEPARTNIEEN7
DEMOCRATS QUOTE LIST
 'OF C. O. CONTRIBUTORS.
 SHOWING BREACH OF LAW

publican League the Southern Pro | tective Tariff Association, the Com mittee of American Business Men. l the American Defense Society. and
 he Republican Publicity Association. As he mentioned each organization, | the witness submitted a letter from | it's headquarters which he said bore | out his assertions. He protested that he did not consider the Young Mems l League reprehensible in itself. that
 he thought the idea of such an organ ! ization was a good one and the Dem ocratic had one of their own and
 hoped to revive it.
 1 But we financed our league the national committee and whatev- CT sum it collected was turned In | to the committee" he said.
 I The American Defense Society was | similarly endorsed. but he added that
 it was spending money to help elect
 Harding and he though that fact was | pertinent to the inquiry.
 | There was a deal of discussion about the Southern Protective Tariff | Association. The letter submitted | from this organization asked that | $20,000 be collected in Texas alone
 and notations indicated that four
 Democrats and eight Republicans all ready had given 5000 each to the association Mr Marsh said one con- | tributing to protective tariff asso- | citation should be classed as a Repub- | lican and used the term ''camou- | flaged Democrats"
 Senator Kenyon wanted to know if | Mir Marsh thought the Republicans | had any reason to spend money in southern states and the latter retort- ed that he had heard that the fce- publicans expected to carry North
 Carolina and con very hopeful days"
 extended this hope to Texas. Senator Kenyon asked if the | League to Enforce Peace was not spending considerable money in ad- | vocacy of the League of Nations and ! whether the witness thought the | Democratic national committee ought | to do that work instead.
 'If you mean the organization of which William H. Taft is the head, i I see no reason why we should un- dertake work that MT. Taftts doing so we'll for us," replied the Demo cratic official. The chS@Hman sug-
 gested that large expenditures would
 not in themselves indicate corruption 1 if the work itself was legitimate and when Mir Marsh reiterated his opin- | ion that what seemed reasonable to Republican was enormous in the sight of a Democrat, the Iowa sena- tor said:
 Well the Democrats have an ad- vantage at the start in that they do
 not have to campaign in dozen southern states"
 You have the same advantage in some other states rejoined MT. Marsh and no one knows one of
 them any better than you do."
 Senator Spencer, Republican, Mis- souri, reverted to the Barnes Book i list and after persistent questioning obtained from Mir Marsh the infor-
 nation that he had seen no list of
 subscriptions to the Barnes propa- ganda plan which was not headed
 "Republicanism of 1920-published by the Albany Evening Journal" "But I do not believe" explained
 MT. Marsh, that the Albany Journal
 head on those lists means any more than if I used one of my letter heads as owner of the Waterloo Gowa)
 Times Tribune, to appeal to citizens | of that city to build church" 1 As possible electoral reforms MT.
 Marsh advocated legislation chasing
 as political parties all organizations J engaged in collecting funds for po- ! litical propaganda and compelling
 them to make public reports of their ! finances. He also said that he fav-
 ored strongly law which would pro hibit individuals sending money for
 political purposes into states of
 which they were not residents, citing
 as an example of this practice S30,-
 900 which he said Coleman DuPont
 sent to Indiana in 1916.
 Books submitted by Mir. Marsh in
 cluded a complete list of contribut- ors to the Democratic treasury con ! taining thousands of names. The | witness and MT. White told the com
 mittee that no limit had been fixed
 on the size of individual subscrip-
 tions but that every check was scrut-
 inized closely as to its size and
 source. From the list Senators Spen-
 cer and Edge learned that the larg-
 est single subscription was for S2O,-
 900 from E. A. Rowe, a banker of
 Boston, Texas. MT. Marsh explain