The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1920-09-09
COX SAYS HAYS DELIBERATE
LY PERJURED SELF
Declares Exposure Of Plot Caused
Senate Ring to Cancel Confer
ence with Harding.

CuSC Will 4AoIOAu6.
Milwaukee, Wis. September A.
Gov. Jas Nj. Cox, Democratic pres
idential candidate, today charged
that Will IL. Hays, Republican Ma
tional Chairman, had deliberately per-
. petrated falschood under oath III
Chicago in the Senate committees
investigation of Republican contribu-
tions.
Gov Cox's charge, the elimination
of bitter partisan controversy OF
campaign financing, was delivered at
noon, during one of seven speeches
the Democratic nominee made during
the days tour of Wisconsin.
Existence of the alleged Republ-
can quota of $S.I45,ooo for fifty-one
big cities, charged by Gov. Cox last
Friday at Pittsburgh, was the basis
of today's assertion by the Governor.
MIR. Hays has denied that there is
any quota said the Governor
Il charge that there is quota.
charge, further, that MIR. Hays de-
lberately perpetrated falsehood
under oath at Chicago when he said
there was not quota.
Gov. Cox followed this declaration
with all assertion that conference
arranged today at Marion, Ohio, by
Senator Harding, his Republican op-
ponent, with members Of the Repub-
lican Ways and Means, or Financ-
ing Committee, had been postponed,
because, the Governor declared, he
had exposed this plot to buy the
presidency OF the United States.
In his state fair speech leading up
to his charge against Hays, Gov. Cox
declared:
Mr.. Hays says that quotas have
not been established. There is not
a man or woman here who doesn't
believe that quotas are being estab-
lished.
Treasurer Upham says they are
being established.
Il have here" the Governor con-
tinued, pulling bunch of papers from
his breast pocket and waving them,
documents issued from the National
Republican Committee with instruc-
tions to the money diggers,' as they
themselves have been called by
Treasurer Upham, to see to it that
papers left on tables after luncheons
shall be destroyed in order that no.
body know what is going on"
Producing copies of the Official
Bulletin" of the Republican treasury,
which he read at Pittsburgh and 9th
Ell cities recently, and which figured
in the Senate inquiry, Gov. Cox pro-.
ceeded:
In the first line of the Official
Bulletin it says that this bulletin is
official, and in another part it says
that the quotas were understood by
Chairman Hays at the outset
1T says" the Governor continued
without reading, that the amounts
sought in each community are part of
the campaign OF general subscription
as originally initiated by Will II.
Hays and carried through by the
treasurer's office and that the whole
program is now nearing completion"
That big business interests were
contributing to the Republican cause
in the alleged attempt to buy the
presidency" was reiterated by Gov.
Cox to several audiences during the J
day.
The league was championed by the |
Governor in almost every address to-
day. lie repeated his array of argu-
ments, declaring it would insure |
world peace and international disarm-
ament. make for material reconstruc-
tion and stability throughout the |
world.