Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-04
SAYS REPUBLICANS
RAISED $4,000 IN
CITY Of ATLANTA
Former Manager of Govern
or Cox Declares That Man
Who Collected Fund Was
Disguised and Quit

CHICAGO. Sept. 2.-The senate
paign expenditures adjourned short
ly after noon without having heard
Edmund Moore of Ohio, Governor
Cox's personal representative. Chair
nlittee would meet in Chicago next
Tuesday, September z, to hear Moore
and other witnesses.
cratic speakers bureau.
1.-THE senate investigating commit
tee can either dig up the proof of
Gov, Cox's charges or it can leaxe
matters so that Truman Newberry
will have lot of distinguished
company" said Mr.. Moore, while
waiting for the committee to de-
IF the committee will call those
regional directors they can find out
but. for cities" said Mr.. Moore.
Treasurer Upham testified that
prepared to show that sum was the
quota of Atlanta alone and that it
was all raised by June IA. 1 can
name the man who raised it. He
was nominated that he quit and said
he would not support the ticket"
Mr.. Moore declared that the Re-
publicans had corrupted Lincoln's
government by the, people. into the
Further investigation into the Re-
publican yearbook, being prepared
by William Barnes, of the Albany
Evening Journal, will be undertaken
by the committee next week in Pitts
burg, it was announced today by Sem
will devote particular attention to
charges that liquor interests have
contributed to various campaign
funds, Senator Kenyon said. Mr..
Barnes will be subpoenaed to appear
at Pittsburg meetings, it was an
nounced
Miles J. Poindexter, of Washing
ton. recent candidate for the Repub-
lican presidential nomination, and
chairman of the Republican sena-
torial committee. told the investiga-
tors that the $4,000 which his com
mittee sent E. Q. Weller, Republican
candidate for the senate from Mary
land, was not an example of the gen.
eral practice of the committee.
There is no fixed rule or system
by which candidates are helped"
explained Senator Poipdexter. 1--WE
ties upon which we have agreed with
the candidate or his campaign or
ganiZation."
; Senator Kenyon brought out that
the senatorial committee had an ar
rangement by which the formers
lIldAiIilul1 Campaign luna OF SZUU,UUU
was guaranteed by the national
committee: In return, all moneys
collected by the senatorial commit
tee are turned back to the national
treasury of the party, Senator Poin-
dexter said. He added that Senator
Frelinghuysen, of New Jersey, is
chairman of subcommittee in
charge of collecting funds and that
he in turn had organized an auxil.
larry committee headed by Elliot
Wadsworth, of New York.
They have not raised any money
to speak Of" Senator Poindexter
said. and Senator Reed of the tnves-
ii ting committee supplemented
this with the remark, mot yet"
Senator Pomerone had the witness
state that the 100000. if divided
equally among the thirty-two states
in which senatorial elections are to
be held this fall, would average S.
ESQ to the state, and he then called
attention to the federal statute linn
itfng campaign expenses of a sena-
toriaI candidate to $4,000 except in
st"tes where a lower limit had been
set by statute