The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-10
BLAIR ADMITS COX
 QUOTA CHARGE WAS
 UNDERSTATEMEN1
Planned Drives In 54 Cities, Three More Than Charged By Democratic Candidate,
 He Tells Committee
By Assnciat,.d Press

of fifty-one cities had been sent out by the republican na- tinal committee was elicited al today's session of the Senate committee Investigating cam paign funds.
 While Harry M. Blair, assistant ta | Fred W. Upham, national republicas treasurer, was on the stand, docu' l ment was introdursd which the wit | ness identified as d substitute foi | form 101," the campaign plan which | Blair drew up but which was rejected | by the national executive committee | This substitute document stated an in' | tensive campaign was to be undertakes | in fifty-four cities and it also indi- | cated that the national treasurer wal | to appoint city chairman of the way: | and means committee. | John A. Kelly and G. Deforest Kin. ney state ways and means heads foi 1 Ohio and Illinois, respectively, later | said they appointed the local chair. men themselves and the national treasurer had nothing to do with these selections or with fixing quotas foi 1 the various counties In addition, Henry Owen, a paid as' | sistant to Mir. Blair and organizer fol | Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, West Vtr. ginia and Indiana testified he had never heard of any plan to organizt cities as distinctive from the county organizations. Furthermore he said he never saw form 101 and knew noth. ing of it's being locked in safe al | republican headquarters after it had | been rejected.
 MT. Owen told Senator Spencer thu | whole republican method of raising funds was a stock plan.'
 'I can buy it for you in printed form for twenty-five cents," he added
 "Where?" asked Senator Reed. | From the international committed of the Y. M. c. A." said the witness The plan is known to hundreds oi men. It is twenty-five years old and anything but original with this drive
 COX COPY INCOMPLETE
 Mir. Blair produced Il copy of that
 form and when it was compared to
 the copy of the same form which
 Governor Cox had sent to the conn
 mittee by Edmund Moore. his per-
 sonal representative, the governors
 copy was found to he incomplete. | An entire paragraph which ap-
 pearcd in Mir. Biair's copy was
 omitted from that sent by the gov
 ernor. The paragraph suggested
 that contributions of $J,U0O aud
 $IO,00O be accepted, removing the
 x1,00O limit fixed by2Cbairman Hays.
 The copy furnished by the gover-
 nor merely suggested that c0ntri-
 buttons from $J,O0O upward "be re- l ceived."
 While he planned drives in great cities, MT. Blair said, it was found i'm. possible to carry out the programme because of local conditions in some places. He mentioned Minneapolis, St Paul, Dallas, and Houston as cities where the drives were abandoned be. cause it was mot eXpedient" he said to start them. Our experience in At. lanta was not so encouraging" he ex. l plained, referring to the testimony o3 ] C. w. Mcclure, Georgia state chair- man. about the failure of the drive | there.
 .'You did. though, contemplate or-
 gnnizing drives in fifty-fOur
 cities =" Senator Reed asked.
 "Yes, sir"
 "So if Governor Cox or any other
 man charges you had plans for orr
 Eanizing fifty-One cities, he simply i understnted, didn't he:"
 "Ycs, sir"
 Mr. Blair said that the campaign plan was commonly used for money drives for hospitals Y M. c. A. build ings and in war drives, and that all hia assistants had worked in such activi. | ties and knew the general procedure.
 ACTS WERE APPROVED | Senator Reed finally obtained assem- | to propositions that the national ways and means committee appoint the state chairman and then sent paid workers to aid these chairmen and finally by taking money raised by those agen sies approved their acts.
 | MT. Blair explained that the leaders l frl rf aslS cd be allowed to raise $350,0 as that | cty's part of the Ohio quota of s650.- 900, with the proViso that if the% went to $400,000 the difference would be ep- piled to the purpose of the county committee in Cuyahoga county.
 MT. Blair said he did encourage un- derwriting of city quotas and was then asked to explain flash" from the field August 16 or bulletins which stated:
 Cincinnati business men have un- derwritten that city's quota, the full amount to be delivered by Septem- Der l."
 q consider that just 'bull.'" said MT. Blair
 Bull is expanded truth defi ned the witness and the merriment lasted until Senator Kenyon rapped for order.
 Senator Reed asked Blair about iuHSHtoH at the CulOH League Niuu July 6. win II. Hays, republican na- tional chairman, was present and spoke, the witness said. Fred w. Up- ham, the national treasurer. was aost. l MT. Blair denied that the question of city quotas was discussed The sub- stitute for Form l0l was given out at | this luncheon he said, put no copies of 101 were present
 HOLD NIGHT SESSION l The co'nmittee held another night ses- sion. Chairman Kenyon explaining they hoped to wind up the committee hear ings in this city by Saturday night OtherNdeveopments today included tes- tlmony by Mir. Kelly that he fixed tho quotas of Ohio counties at just double what he expected to raise. but did not inform local charmen of that fact On that basis, the workers in that state were striving to get sl SQO.0o0 instea1 of ! the s65o.ooo. which the national conn mttee wanted ss i We shot at the moon, hoping to hir the tree tops,' explained Mir Kelly. | Mrs. Bertha Bauer of Chicago, ways and means vice chairman for Illinois, l told of the difficulties of raising money ! among women voters,
 I've thought that since women had assumed the privileges of the ballot they ought to assume some of its responsi- bilties.' she said, but her figures showed she had collected sss, s67.57 from only five had come from Cook county She said '