Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-09-07
MOORE
BEFORE SEll 4
llVES SIlCA1OR
Declares Committee is Not
Seeking BeAt E;vid F dence =
Support Cox.

%f--' - 80 & -
ton Of Republican Cam
paign Workers.
Chicago. Sent. T.. The senatorial
COMMITTEES investigating campaign ex-
penditures 10 not seeking the best
evidence to prove Governor Cox's
charges against the Republican party.
Edmund H. Moore, YOUNGSTOWN.
Ohio, the governors persona1 repre-
sentative, told the comRittee on tho
stand today. Ss5
Moore told Senator Kenyon there
were men better able to tell I Of the
Republican plans than either he or
Governor Cox. and asked why Colonel
York. chairman OF the Republican
| ways and means committee, and the
sixty men of the paid organisation.
were not called. g55. 3s 4 Sfs
Governor Cox has not evidence III
support of his charges outside Of
what Moore brought to Chicago with
him. the witness said. AS he spoke he
out stack of papers that apparently
numbered several hundred sheets.
1 Sent to Give IAst.A
Governor Cox sent him to Chicago.
Mr.. Moore said. ito give the commit-
tee the list from whom the senator's
could get the information to support
the governors charges He mem
toned Harry M. Blair. first assistant
TO- Fred ". Upham. Republican ma
employees of Upham.s ofiee.
Have you all the leads Governor
Cox has?" Senator Kenyon asked.
= couldn't say as to that 71sa q
He didn't ask you to give MS just
part of his information ~
Certainly not. But the Republican
bulletins and the Republican papers
furnish all the leads necessary
Governor Cox has no evidence ont
side what you have brought to US n
the senator continued. f53
! II think not"
Signs of friction developed when
Chairman Kenyon questioned Mr..
newspaper correspondents last Thurs
day when he appeared to testify but
was not called. 'Ss
il Moore Gets Angry.
The chairman asked Mr.. Mneea II
he had said that the COMMITTEES was
afraid to call him to the stand, and if
he had said the committee was not
seeking the evidence to prove Cow
ernor Cox's charges
You don't need to get, angry
J Senator Kenyon said. 2 ~,
. am not getting angry What; 4
said was that you were not seeking
the best eyadeilce. ss5And Iss ny q Il
!, again Y0H are not! ai4 isiS
Did you. say: II the committee
wants t6. it can get the men here
who will prove the falsity or truth Of
J Governor Cox's charges in forty-edEht
hours? ?" asked Senator Kenyon.
We'll. if did not say. then / say
Fit now" responded Mr.. Moore.
Mr.. Moore said she was sure that
; Fred w. Upham,' treasurer of the RE-
publican national committee. would
not testify to untruths, but he was
equally sure that the Republican of
ficial was victim Of either mistakes
} or bad bookkeeping when he testified
concerning the quotas assigned vari-
l Reed Protests.
Senator Reed protested that Senator
: Kenyon was seeking what the witness
did not know. rather than what he
. knew.
. you can question him in your own
way when your turn comes" retorted
, the Iowa senator, and he then read
charges from Governor Cox's Wheeling
speech to the effect that powerful In
! terests" were scheming to buy gov
, ernment control and from the South
Bend speech that so far as Republican
s contributions were concerned, ssthe
, sky is the limit He also read 4 Cox
; statement that 100000 had been
raised in Ohio Sin the twinkling OF
. an eye."
In answering Senator Kenyon's df-
|, rect question for names Of men who
knew about the Ohio fund, Mr.. Moore
. went into a long explanation of his
, understanding Of the Republican cam-
!, paign fund organization. He said 1t
: was headed by Colonel Thompson and
: had as state chairman men whom the
: Republican bulletin described as s.of
: commanding influence"
He\ said Fred Miller Of Columbus
, was chairman In Ohio and that, like
;. other state chatrmen. he had ap-
a pointed chairmen Of local ways and
means committees. e:
II found that usually In Ohio these
local chairmen were manufacturers y
said Mr.. Moore. a y
The witness reiterated, the charkes
that specific qnotas We're assessed
1 against local communities and then
"But these local organisations wsr.
Z for funds were paid men headed 81
d Harry N. Blair. assistant to M. I'd.
r ham, e Y 1 rs1;,S IS 80
# Has Divisional Directors.
eI He said Blair had. under him CD.
y tain division directors IN charge ri
e sections Of the country and that va
e Of them were g. w. Lee ana HenrysE
q Owens. is, sssz
J. ..These are the professional none,
't iraisers." said Mr.. Moore .ss'
= In Iowa the paid director Is Iryfns
! NoNvood OF Dayenport. said NJ
q .'That is not the ma INTERCEPTED