The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-10-27
DEMOCRATIC PRESS
AGENTS ERR IN GIFTS
Announce List Of Donors and
Sums Different From the
Official Report.
DELINQUENTS REMINDED
Names of Former Officehold-
crs Who Failed to trib-
ute Are Announced.

Special Dispatch to TIE NEW YORK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau !
Washington. ID. e.. Oct. rs.
Voluntary press agents who had &C
cess to the party records added zest to-
day 10 what otherwise would have been
a dull preliminary report by the Demo-
cratic National Committee of its receipts
and expenditures in the campaign.
Just as the report was being filed with
the Clerk OF the House, as required by
law, the press agents gave out a sum-
mary of its contents, but names Of con-
iributors and amounts were vastly diff
ferent from the official figures In some
notable instances. The result was wide
speculation as to whether the press
agents simply made mistake. We're tip
ping their hand in advance or playing
unadulterated politics for the benefit of
some Democratic Presidential posi-
bility.
The Democratic Nai;ona1 Committee
reported contributions from July / to
October % of s80,512. OF which s74,465
came in amounts OF 800 or more from
1874 Democrats. The balance was in
sums of less than 500. and the con-
tributors' names did not appear in the
report.
The heaviest contributor to the Demo-
~ sAtAC NdNlOLdi AOHliillllte was W. L.
Benedum, engaged in the oil business
az Pittsburgh. who gave $4,000 The
next was Harrison Nesbit. banker of
Pittsburgh. with $4,000 Frank L..
Croker OF New York city gave $1,000.
Most of the other contributions were
much smaller: l.. +. Crawford, Pitts
burgh, $500; Cyrus Mccormick. Chi
cage $4,000: Bernard NJ. Baruch. New
York city, $4,000; Thomas +. Ryan, Vir-
ginia. $4,000; C. n. Haskell. former
Governor OF Oklahoma, $4,000: Clar-
ence C. Watson. former Senator from
West Virginia, s2.500. and Charles F.
Thomas, formerly Senator from Colo
RADIO. $1,000.
Among the $1,000 contributors were
Henry Morgenthau, Joseph NJ. Hart
field, Ralph Pulitzer. Edward Wise. w.
A. Day, Edmund l.. Mooney. John McE.
Bowman and Wayne Johnson. all of
New York city; Charles r. Crane and
Edward VI. Hurley OF Illinois. and
George T. Bradley Of Colorado. William
G.. McAdoo gave $500, Vance Mccormick.
500: David X. Francis. $500; John w
Davis. $500: Frank l.. Polk. 500 and y.
Mitchell Palmer 500. Woodrow Wilson
gave $500: Senator Carter Glass, 5000 !:
Thomas w. Gregory. 5000 Col. T.. NJ.
House. 500. and Josephus Daniels, 800.
The press agent report OF what was
contained In the committee statement
was issued in a round about way and
attributed to nobody. 1t purported u
be an abstract of the report but con-
ia med some remarkable deductions. II
covered three sheets OF typewriter
paper and was accepted as correct until
checked up with the official report file j
with the Clerk of the House.
Bernard NJ. Baruch was credited IL
the press statement as having con-
tributed s25, 600 while the official lis,
showed that he gave only $500 The
list also gave Joseph Z. Willard Of
Virginia. formerly Ambassador to Italy.
as among those who gave $1,000 Nc.
Wizards name is Lot on the official
list
Joseph p. Tumulty. formerly secretary
to President Wilson, was set down in the
press agent report as having contributed
$3.50. whereas his name Is omitted in the
official tabulation. The same is true of
Newton ID. Baker, formerly Secretary OF
War. The press agents credited him
with 500 but the official list omitted
him.
Norman II. Davis OF New York. for
mer Assistant Secretary of State. was
in the press agent statement for $500.
The official list sets rundown for $1,000.
The press agent reoort calls attention