The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-04
| s 0 M E SENSATIONS
 PROMISED IN SLUSH FUND INVESTIGATION
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brought into the work Of collecting the 1 campaign fund from the Liberty loan | and Y M. c. A. drives. Said one re- i publican today: These men did not realize how badly boasting about the vast sums they would realize would | sound in politics. They were living in the atmosphere of the war money drives
 | While it is probable that quotas for cities were fixed out of all pro- portion to the quotas for the state es- tab'ished by Mir. Upham there is noth- ing yet to show that those given on the typewritten list made public by Governor Cox were the actual quotas assigned by local authorities or by re- publican money drivers to the city. TneSdemocrats are striving to prove that the governors quotas were cor 1 rect, and they hope to show 1t by the | testimony of the men in the field who actually set out to collect the money in the various states and cities. That is their purpose in calling the state local finance agents of the republican party. Their theory that the repub lican testimony so far has been false, that the amounts to be collected by the various cities were decided upon as Governor Cox charged by the na- tional officials of the republican party and that the list of quotas given out by the democratic candidate was pre- pared by the responsible national of- ficials of the party.
 TRY TO RECONCILE The best way to reconcile the conflict
 ing evidence in the case is to assume
 that the national officials of the party
 merely made out the state quotas and
 left the methods of collection within the
 states and the assignment of quotas to
 cities and localities to the state finance
 bodies.
 If the evidence the democrats say they
 have established that the typewriter
 list of city quotas which Governor Cox
 had in his possession was made up at
 national headquarters there are two
 theories which possibly account for it.
 One is that the professional money
 naircrs drew up this list as a suggestion to their representatives in the various states. The other is that 1t may have
 been fixed up from reports from the va rious states of the quotas fixed by the local authorities, these reports having been sent to professional money raisers at the national headquarters. All this as- sumes a certain authenticity for the Cox typewriter list but that still remains to be proved.
 As the state quotas aggregated over five million dollars, the doubling or trebling of them by local collectors would result in very large total in quotas. The republicans insist that most of this merely dream money" and there is not the slightest evidence of the actual collection of excessive sums of money.
 During the campaign the democrats will probably insist that the republicans really Intended to collect the total amount of their quotas and were only stopped from doing so by Governor Cox's charges. And the republicans will rest their case on the fact that they did not collect an excessive amount of money and never intended to do so. Probably this is the last campaign in which the pro- fessional money raisers will run loose without close supervision by party treas urers.