New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-01
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Before leaving the stand Mr.. Upham
questioned by Senator Kenyon, entered
categorical denial to Governor Cox's
charges that Especial interests" were
financing the Republican campaign.
Are persons favoring q protective
tariff being especially solicited" Sena-
tor Kenyon was asked.
mot that know Of"
Are banking interests being asked
to contribute as a class?"
mo"
ais airy campaign being made among
Reserve Bank?"
us any campaign to raise money
being conducted among people who
want to put down labor disputes with
the bayonet'"
No, sir"
"Have YOU inquired the price of
nayonets: Senator Reed interjectedr
Yes, they are very cheap"
Are you canvasslng the profiteers ?"
Senator Kenyon continued, adding that
"of course. it is very hard to raise
money nowadays without hitting
profiteer somewhere"
mo, sir" Mr.. Upham replied.
Have the books been opened and
are MILLIONS raised to buy an under
hold on the Presidency as Governor
Cox has said?"
at must be by some other treasurer.
/ have not heard Of it,"
| Newspaper Interview Denied
Mr.. Upham denied ever having made
statement attributed to him in q
New York newspaper, which quoted
him as saying that the Republican
campaign fund would be approximately
$70OO,000. He was hever interviewed
and had never made any statement
about 100000 fund.
The published statement as pre-
scented to the committee quoted Mr..
Upham as answering Governor Cox's
charges of a $15,OO0,O0O fund by saw
ing it would not be "half that sum"
When Mr.. Upham resumed the stand
ne presented a table showing the
original quotas, totaling $4,SS7,5O0. as
sessed against various states for ma
tlonal campaign purposes. In lively
exchange of repartee with Senator
Reed he explained that he had made
up the quotas himself in May, 1919,
after consulting with state leaders
and that the amounts were two or three
times what he hoped to get, the figures
being set high so as to spur the
boys on" VIC
II never fooled myself about these
amounts at ALL" said Mr.. Upham, and
TO prove that his expectations had not
Deen fulfilled he read parallel columns
showing the quotas and the amounts
received from each state, these latter
up to last Friday. These returns varied
from $25,. credited to Connecticut on
quota of $4,000 to s225,292 for New
YORK on quota of $1,6OO.00O.
Britten Reiterates Charge
Representative Britten, in his testi-
mony, said the $S7, 900 he had charged
was given to- the Democrats by Tho
British was spent to spread nrona-
Cox. No''1 'oi
re declared that the appropriation
of the $87 200 to the British E.mhassv
at Washington by the British Govern,
ment ostensibly for entertainment mr.
poses, had been acknowledged by Lon
In reference to the spreading of
propaganda: the Republican side was
touched when S. d. Tess. member
oe congress from Ohio and chairman
OF the Republican Congressional Com
mittce, was called to the stand and
asked about the book published bv
william Barnes, of Albany.
chairman Kenyon said: 81 want to
, ASK you about something else. There
was some evidence Introduce here, yes
tterday. about book by Mr.. Barnes. of
New York. want to ask you what
you know about that book.
Mr. Fess replied: "The only thing I
know about that is Mr.. Barnes wrote
me m some time in February, stating that
t !; was MS custom to, get out publca-
ton. something in the form of wear
book, every ,quadrcnnal, to be sold,
understood him to say, after the ma
tIonal convention; that the book, in ad
ditlon to facts and figures, was to in
cludc biographical sketches of LEADING
men of the state, and that he had
chosen Rutherford B. Hayes as man
whose character sketch he wanted TO
run for leader, and he asked me if
would write sketch, which l did, for
MN. That was all know about it,"
Mr.: Fess testified that he received no
pay for the book; that it was not pub,
llshed at the instance of the Republi-
can National Committee. and that he
did not krovr 49,