Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-09-02
OFFICIALS BELIEVE
 COX SLUSH FUND
 CHARGES ARE TRUE
Democrat Officers Do Not Pre-. sent Evidence to COm-
 mittee
WHITE PRODUCES
 PICTURES OF LIST
Farley Christensen, Farmer-Labor Candidate Testifies Before COm- mittee-DemOcratic Golfers
 Practically Empty

Chicago, Sept. 1,-Officials of the democratic national committee tes- tified today before the senatorial committee Investigating campaign expenses, that they brought no evil dence from Governor James M. Cox to sustain his charges of republ- can corruption fund, but that they believed the charges were true.
 George H. White recently elect ed chairman of the democratic or ganization and Wilbur March, its treasurer, both backed their candi- dates assertion and in addition MT. Marsh produced photographic copies of subscription lists to republican book published by William Barnes of the Albany, N. Y, Evening Journal, which he said indicated a violation of the federal statutes forbidding po- litical subscriptions by corporations.
 MT. Marsh told Senator Kenyon, chairman of the investigation com mitee that the original lists were "either in the hands of Governor Cox or the department of justice" Asked why they had not been turned over at once to the attorney gener- al's office as basis for possible prosecutions he replied: "We con- sidered them as an excellent cam paign document. Besides we have had them only about two weeks"
 "Well," said Senator Kenyon, eff any of the signers of these lists have violated the law, they ought to be jailed no matter whether they are republicans or democrats"
 Christensen Testifies.
 Other witnesses today were Par ley P. Christensen, presidential nom- inee of the Farmer-Labor party; Guy T. Scott, treasurer of the repub- lican congressional and senatorial campaign committees and w. D. Jamieson, hold over financial direc- tor of the democratic national or ganization.
 MT. Jamieson appeared at night session which was ordered in an eff fort to speed up the hearing.
 Messrs. White and Marsh agreed that the democratic coffers were practically empty but both hoped for better conditions soon. They said that the party as yet had no cam paign committee, no finance commit. tee and MT. Marsh added that the heads of bureaus had not yet been appointed.
 They agreed also that there was nothing in the budget of $3,079, ,000, presented Monday by Will Hays, chairman of the republican national committee that was in itself "evi- dence of desire to corrupt the Am eri1can electorate" MT. Marsh thought the amount named was notl excessive for a republican campaign, but said it would be far more than necessary for a democratic effort to elect president.
 The officials differed as to the| amount needed for the years cam paign by their party. MT. White made "strictly personal" estimate of $2,O00,0 ,000 but MT. Marsh said this was too high figure and that in the two months remaining before cleo tion, as good campaign as the 1916 effort could be conducted for $1,-| 100000. He said he would "be very happy" with that amount at the dis posal of the national committee. The evidence confirmed previous asser- tions that the 1916 campaign cost the democratic organization $2,300,O00.
 Peruse Barnes Book.
 The Barnes book received consider