The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-11
G. ]. P. AGAIN SEEKS ID BUY ELECTION, HARRISON CHARGES
Sky Is Limit on Contributions to Republican Campaign Fund, Mississippi Senator
 Asserts in Speech
By Associated Press

Washington, June 10.-Republican plans with respect to the approach ing congressional campaign as form ulated at the meeting here, together with the decision of party leaders to raise $500,000 campaign fund, fur nished Senator Harrison, democrat, Mississippi, with a theme for a speech in the Senate during the day. The meeting of republican leaders here Thursday, at which the plans were decided on, was said by Senator Harrison to indicate that they were going out again to buy an cleo tion."
 Senator Mccormick, of Illinois, chairman of the republican sena- torial campaign committee, replying to the Mississippi senator. said par ticipation in the meeting could con- stitute no offense against good cit- izenshp.
 The Mississippi senator, continu- ing, said the voters were not for getting the significance of the many White House dinners and their pos sible connection with legislation, all of which mean something toward the perpetuation of the Harding politi- cal machine. He added that eating at dinners such as the party heads had here during their conference must cost several thousand dollars a plate"
 Sky h Limit
 The sky is the limit on contribu- tions to the republican campaign fund again this year." Mir. Harrison continued.
 Anything big goes. Of course they then will place a tariff on cash registers SO that contributions may come from that direction and take the tax off of chewing gum so that more money can come from there. It's all fixed, all set"
 "Oh well, the American people are not forgetting that the repubiicans reduced taxes" retorted Mir McCor mick. They are not forgetting that the small taxpayer had half of his income tax taken off. that instead of spending six billion dollars this year like the government spent the last year of democratic rule we will spend only three and a half billion.
 Democratic Campaign Fund
 Then also I suppose Mir. Chand- Ter and Charles R. Crane and Der nard Baruch will be ready soon to supply the democratic committee with money. I suppose also that the American people have not forgotten how the democratic committee as- sessed Cleveland Dodge to pay back what they had taken from Cyrus McCormick's contribution. That was all right. until It became known
 Senator Mccormick said that the sky seemed to be the limit for wild charges and obstructionist tactics by the democrats" and as- serted that the republican party had successfully cleaned up, the admin istrative anarchy and economic chaos" of the last democratic re- gime. He predicted that by winter there would be few idle men in the country. because the country has assurance that the government will be properly rum
 Senator Harrison concluded the colloquy by saying 1t appeared that the senator from Illinois is nurs- ing . sore toe because he had been unhorsed from the actual direction of the coming campaign" The cam paign would be managed largely by the republican national committee and he added that he was not sur prised that MT. Mccormick was agrieved at being relegated to . ~secondary position"