Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-09-02
I Need $1,000. 900.

HigStiHil l,Iixi,+ Need s.,ooo,ooo.
in Richmond ais differed as to The
led last pight led for this years cam
{ weicohg Z, 70 eheh party. Mr.. White
az. ,P,rQgn. >qs strictly personal estimate"
OF 100000, but Mir. Marsh said this
was TOO high a figure and that in the
= two months remaining before election,
t,cls good d campaign es the 1916 effort
: could b. conducted for s1,soc,oo0. He
: said ne would BE very happy" with
r that amount at the disposal OF the
!: national committee. Tho evidence
: Confirmed previous assertions that the
!. 1916 campaign cost the Democrats
: organization $500, 900.
: The Barnes book received consid-
! cradle attention throughout the day.
: Mr.. Marsh explained that 10 his mind
Z the subscription list Indicated = Plan
to collect large campaign funds indie
pendcnuy Of the regular Republican
anachiaery. He aali there were soy-
eral organizations engaged In SINH
lar work, and at tho bcnest of soma
tor Kenyon ne mentioned thc National
Young Mans Rcpu sA&un lisayue. tho
Southern Protective '"TariN Assocla-
+ ton, the Committee of American bush
:: ness men, the American Defense So
! ciety. and the Republican Publicity
!; Association.
: AS he mentioned each organization
: the witness submitted = letter from.
: its headquarters which he said bore
{ out his assertions. lie protested that
he did not consider the Young Mems
. thought the idea Of such AN oryani-
!. 2ation WAS good one and thar the
J: Democrats had one Q: their owl. ana
: hoped to revive IL,
! but we hnenced our league
: Through the national committee and
: whatever 1t Collected was turned into
!. the committee" he sntl
Ma, InNeati;;ate Socict,
!. The American De nse Society wag
|: similarly Endorsed hut, he added. that
: 1t was spending money to help cleo,
4 Harding and he thought that fact
was pertinent 70 The inquiry
There was a srea; deal Of discus
sion about the Southern Protective
!. Tariff Association. The letter sub
initted from this organization asked
that 10000 be collected In Texas
alone. and nota;ioas indicated tha,
s four Democrats and eight Reauhli-
cans already had given $1,000 each 10
he association. MI Marsh salf ary
one contributing 70 : Protective tar
in association shouli He clasgai as III
Republican anG used tho torn cam
: oufaged Democrat" in iiis coancc-
= ton.
& Senator Kenyon warted to know /,
e Mt. Marsh thought the Rcr7.biicars
had anJ reason to spend nonoy IA
Southern states. ana tho LITTER re
torted that ho had t.e;.fd the Re.
publicans expected 80 carry North
J. Carolina and "on very hopeful daya''
: extended this hope 30 Texas
81 Senator Kenyon asked u .hc
b JGasue to Enforce Peace waa not
sispending considerable money In ad-
II fyocacy of the league o. nu:iona. and
9 whether the witness thought the
9 democratic National Committee
/, 6ught 10 do that work instead.
III you mean The organization of
! which William il TAFT is the head.
SsJ gee no reason WY we shou,d
ss3 undertake work that M-. Taft IL
"a doing SO well for rs" replied the
Democratic official. The cha.rrnau.
4 sugg ested that large expenditure
would not. in Themselves. indicate
II corTuption 81 the work itselt was
3 SleE1tmate. aud when N. Narsa
elaborated his opinion that VIVA,
reasonable TO a Republican
RENAs epprDrps in the slg1t Of a
$rmp<Yat the Iona E4r2-nr xsss.
8{SlfpgSI1e the Democrats have AN sd