New Britain herald., 1924-10-08
SLEMP MAINTAINS
 CLAIM IS UNTRUE
Brands La Follette'S Charge Of "SIuSh Fund" Pure Fabrication
LATTER DEMANDS PROBE
Wisconsin Candidate Insists There Is
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Washington, Oct. S. V. Bascom slemp. secretary to President Cool idge, branded as pure fabrication" today the statement by Senator La Toilette, independent presidential candidate, that he would have charge of campaign "slush fund" for the republican party.
 Knows Nothing of Money
 T know nothing about the repub- lican national committees finances" said MT. Slemp, 'and I have had no connection, direct or indirect, with the handling of them. Neither will I have in the future.
 Tt has not been suggested to me that I leave Washington in the in- terest of President Coolidge's can didacy, and I have no intention of leaving"
 La FoIlettes Charge.
 Hoboken, N. J., Oct. S.-Deter- mined to press his demand for sen- ate investigation to establish wheth- CT "slush fund" is being collected 10 buy the election for President Coolidge in doubtful states" as he charged in an address last night at Scranton, Pa, Senator La Toilette invaded New Jersey today for a speech in Newark before swinging westward on tour to the Pacific coast.
 On his arrival here today, the special car of the independent pres idential candidate was shunted onto a sidetrack to remain until he leaves at midnight for Detroit. On reaching Hoboken the senator issued state- ment reiterating the "slush fund" charges.
 To Insist on Probe.
 T intend," he said, "to follow up vigorously my demand for an inves- tigation of the special slush fund which is being collected under the direction of w. T. Mellon, of Pitts burgh, brother of the secretary of the treasury, and Edward Stotes- bury, the Philadelphia partner of J. Pierpont Morgan, for the alleged purpose of buying the election for Coolidge in the doubtful states.
 Tt is evident that this is a repeti- ton of the tactics used by Mark Hanna in the campaign of 1895 when the, famous Tnessagg Was gent to Colonel Dudley, of Indiana, with its instruction, Vote them in blocks of five In that campaign greater fund than ever previously had been collected for political purposes was assembled by substantially the same methods that are now being used, and when election day came votes were openly bargained for in the doubtful states.
 Aim of Progressives,
 "Ever since that time the progress sives in congress have been sticking to the strict campaign expenditures and to prevent the use of money for corrupt political purposes they have introduced many bills designed to remedy these evils and purify American politics. In every instance the reactionary members of both old parties have joined to prevent the enactment of any law that had teeth"
 Mir. La Toilette was awaiting a reply today to his telegram to Sena- tor Borah, of Idaho, chairman of the senate committee on campaign expenditures, in which he demand ed an immediate and searching in- vestigation of the alleged slush fund and urged him to subjoena Chair man Butler of the republican na- tional committee, W. T. Mellon, MT. Stotesbury, Joseph Grundy, presi- dent of the Pennsylvania Manufac- turers' association, and others who, he declared In his Scranton address, he had reason to believe had a
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