Great Falls daily tribune., 1920-06-02
One Delegate Received
$3.50 Harding Money
and $500 From Illinois
Candidate Too.
Had First and Second
Choice Senate Probe
Board Is. Told; They
Send for Recipient.

Washington, June 1.-By
The Associated Press. Checks
aggregating $4,000 sent into
Missouri by the managers OF
Governor Lowden's campaign,
were presented Tuesday to the
senate committee investigating
the pre-convention expenditures
of presidential candidates. The
checks were laid before the COM
mittee by Arthur Davis, of Har-
risburg, Ills, at the direction Of
l.. L. Emerson, national mana
ger of Governor Lowden's cam
paign.
The committee heard of one Mis-
souri, politician, a delegate to the Re
publican national convention, who has
received 81 go of Harding money and
$500 of Lowden money.
While most of the day was devoted
By the committee to questioning wit
nesses as to the expenditures of sums
covered by the checks, primary con-
tests in other states were toUhad
upon The committee sought further
information on the caulpasm OF Major
General Leonard Wood in Michigan and
Indiana, and the contest between Cen
eral Wood and Senator Harding in
Ohio.
In its inquiry into the Lowden cam
paign in Missouri the committee ques-
toned Nat Goldstein. clerk of the
Eighth judicial district of St. Louis,
and his deputy. Robert 4. Moore, del
egates to the Republican national con-
vention from Missouri, who testified
that they each had received a check
for $500 from the Lowden campaign
fund. Both said the money still was
held to their account in banks and
would be returned unless Governor
Lowden were nominated. in which event
it would be used in the campaign.
J. B. Babler, national committeeman
from Missouri whom Goldstein and
Moore designated as the one who trans
mitted the checks to them from Mr..
Emmerson, also was questioned by the
committee. #. L. Morse. head of the
Lowden organization outside of st.
Louis, another Missourian examined by
the committee, testified that he had
received by check from Mr.. Emmerson
approximately So. 900, and expended it
'in getting out the workers"
Babler got $4,000 of these funds,
he said to reimburse him for similar
expenditures.
BabIer Said Take It,"
Both Moore and Goldstein testified to
having received the checks from Babler
in the latter's office with no specific
instructions as to how the money should
be used. Both said they had declared
no money was necessary in their con-
gressional districts, and that none was
spent to get out Lowden sentiment in
the ward meetings and district conven-
tions.
Moore said Baber had told him a week
ago:
'NTake it, when he hesitated about
accepting a check from Emmerson.
Babler was pressed on this point by
Chairman Kenyon, when he appeared
later.
'Was it a pretty hard job to get
Moore and Goldstein to take this mon
ey:" the senator asked.
"WeIl. | was very anxious about the
st. Louis situation" Babler replied 81
wanted to tie them up and urged EN-
merson to assist in any way neces-
sary to get their active support"
Money Spent Freely.
Morse and Babler gave from memory
lists of STATE workers" to whom they
had distributed the money received from
Emmerson. The amounts ranged as a
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