Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-11-01
REPUBLICANS ALSO
ACCUSED Of BUYING
! VAUDEVILLE LINES
G. 0. P. Marketed for Labor
Speakers, Too, SIush
Probers Are Told

WASHINGTON, Oct. 80 - While
bankers and captains of industry
waited in the wings for further ques-
tioning, the senate campaign fund
investigating committee today
switched it's spotlight on the delega-
at the White House and breakfasted
with President Coolidge.
Rhinelander Waldo. former police
commissioner of New York, testified
that college non partisan organiza'
ton, of which he is head, paid the
expenses of the actors during the
trip to Washington.
Then from ellison Gardner, a
Washington newspaperman, the COM
nittee heard a suggestion that Re-
publican money had been used also
to secure the use of lines" favor
able to Coolidge in various vaude-
vile skits.
Gardner, supporter of La Fol
Iette, said that early in September
William Burch, of Washington, rep
resenting the MucCutcheon-Ge
syndicate. a subsidiary of the Shu-
bert theatrical corporation, called On
him and offered to sell the La Fol
1ette organization for $4,000 pub
Lefty proposition which would in
clude lines worked into vaudeville
programs favorable to the candidate,
First Went to La Toilette
1.-THE young man told me that
they would prefer to sell the scheme
to La Toilette because they sympha-
thized with his views" Gardner said,
land would be willing to sell it to
La Toilette at lower figure than
to either of the old parties"
He said he declined Burch's offer,
saying that is more money than
La Toilette has"
II judged they sold the proposition
to the Republicans when l heard
about the actors calling at the White
House, including AL Jolson, John
Drew, and Charlotte Green
wood, who were mentioned in con-
nection with the Offer" Gardner said.
From that, the committee moved
on to charges that an effort had been
made to hire labor men to take the
stump for Coolidge.
Henry l.. Raum, a railroad fire
man of Lawrence, Mass, a La Fol
lette supporter, testified that II. Il.
Drew, a former supporter of La Fol
lette, had offered him eleven dollars
n day and eleven dollars for expenses
to support Coolidge and make speech
es for him. He said Drew promised
that he would receive $1,000 over
his expenses for this work and that
$3.50 would be placed in his hands
at once.
Money No Object"
He quoted Drew as saying that
money was no object"
Similar offers, Ramm declared
had been made to other railroad men
In Lawrence, and one had accepted
it.
w. L. Bourland, counsel for the
Republican national committee, drew
from Ramm a statement that he
had solicited funds from labor
unions at Lawrence, receiving $25
from the painters union and $25
from the mill and shipments union.
He said the contributions were made
rs unions and not as individuals.
us the grand lodge paying your
transportation and time lost by your
presence here?" Bourland asked.
Yes" he replied.
do you know of any man being
dismissed from the union because
pf their support of Coolidge?"
NO. but l have heard of men
being dismissed for supporting La
Toilette"
"Where?"
Eat the American Wooden com
pany at Lawrence, Mass"
do you not know that some Of
the mine unions in Illinois have
levied special assessments for the
La Toilette campaign" Bourland
asked.
mo, I do not"
Knows of No Referendum
"Do you know of any referendum
being taken by international organ
cations approving the action of the
grand officers in supporting La Fol
letter"
NO"
Reading a circular sent out by
the La Toilette organizat ton. Bour-
land said it contained a request for
The recipients to ask La Toilette sup
porters to ask their grocers to con-
tribute to the fund. Bourland said
appeals for funds had been made to
people regardless OF their political
beliefs or religious faiths
At the close of the morning SEES
sion, Senator Caraway issued sub
poenas for w. II. Steed, district
chairman of the United Association
pf Railway Employees, and Otto
Blaudt, president of the shop crafts
Of the Northwestern Railway COM
pany, both of Chicago, calling for
their appearance here. They were
summoned at the request of counsel
for La Toilette, who said they could
testify regarding the bribery of
labor leaders"
II. l.. Brunson, of Washington.
machinist, told the committee he
had been delegated to raise contri-
buttons from the trade unions for
La Toilette and had received approx
imately 100000 from approximately
$1,000 contributors. He declared
that % per cent of the contributors
were workers throughout the coun-
try who contributed one dollar.
six per cent of the fund was con-
tvihuted by unions as SUCH" he
added.
Rrunsor said in reply to Bourland
that he received a salary of $125 q
week from the La Toilette organiza-
ton. He had not worked as Il ma
chinist for seven years, he said, but
had been engaged in educational and
political work.
POstmastershipS "Sold"
Senator CarawaN introduced into
the record two atfidaVits from p. 7.
Sapoch, of Blacksburg, s. c.. which
The senator said showed that con-
tributions were being extracted from
people in South Carolina in order
10 qualify them to be postmasters. -
Sapoch said he had paid $500 to
collectors of Joe w. Tolbert." of
South Carolina. to be reappointed