Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-10-21
REPUBLICANS PLAN
THREE WAR CHESTS,
SENATORS ARE TOLD
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WASHINGTON, and also for the man.
aeer of the Hamilton hotel, and
taxicab company, both of Washing
| ton.
While the committee is sitting in
Washington, it also will hear Glenn
| J.. Shaver, chairman, and James w.
Gerard, treasurer of the Democratic
national committee, regarding the
expenditures by the national Dem
! ocratic organizations. Senator 30
| rah announced that he will call
Samuel Gompers, Frank Morrison,
and possibly other officials of the
American Federation Of Labor for
questioning as to their expenditures
| in behalf of the La Toilette Wheeler
campaign.
Sugar Scandal Hinted
Walsh did not confine himself
solely to the presentation of docu-
ments and giving his Interpretation
of them. He quoted Senator La
Toilette as assailing William ".
Hodges, treasurer of the Republican
national committee, in connection
with the sugar tariff.
| Senator La Toilette says he
| told the committee, that the treas
urer of the Republican national COM
mittee, is the paid representative, or
was at the time he became treasurer,
| of the sugar interests in Washing
| ton, and appeared before the tariff
commission, and also did other work
with members of the tariff commits
sion and others interested to keep
up the price of sugar.
| Senator La Toilette says that
the mere fact that he is treasurer
of a political party with this sugar
matter still under Amusement by
the president of the United States,
is a scandal of national proportions
| in itself, and he would like to have
| the opportunity to have his counsel
cross examine Mr.. Hodges and lead
up to where he is getting his con-
| tributions.'
| La Follette's counsel also assalled
the Republican national committee
for expending $437,0 for publicity
at a time, he said, when never be-
| fore had the newspapers so freely
reported the addresses Of political
candidates, those of La Toilette and
Davis. and of Coolidge and the 9TH
ers. He charged the use of cor
rupt minor press and of corrupt
minor speakers" in connection with
the publicity campaign.
| Senator Caraway, Democrat, Ar
kansas, suggested that a part of this
expenditure was "for the laudable
purpose of 'debunking' La Toilette.
YES" returned Mr.. Walsh, land
I want to say for Senator La Fol
lette that is part of his mission now,
he is but humble instrument in it,
but it happens they made the at
| tack on him, and its is part OF his
mission, paraphrasing what another
man said, to 'delouse the political
parties of this country, regardless OF
what they are
In presenting the Grundy letters,
| Mr.. Walsh interposed sharp COM
| ments at frequent intervals.
Coolidge or Bryan
He laid particular stress upon
these passa ges from a letter dated
October 10:
"Our country, our government,
our institutions and industries are
! in peril--a real peril not an mag.
| and Bryan will have to pay his in
| debtedness to La Toilette.
LET me have the largest con-
tribution you can spare. We are ali
making sacrifices. Join us, help us
| quickly"
| Most of the letters held up the
| possibility of La Toilette getting
enough votes to throw the election
I into congress and the final selec-
| ton there of Charles w Bryan, the
| Democratic vice presidential nomi-
| nee. In one letter La 0llette and
| Wheeler were likened to Lenine and
| Trotsky.
| One of the Simmons letters said
| that "as a business proposition,
| your associates should contribute
| literally, almost regardless of party
affiliations, to prevent the success
Of this the La Follette) movement.
apparently the only sure way to
| kin off this movement is the proper
expenditure now of campaign funds
| for speakers and other legitimate
| expenses in these western states
where such campaigns, if promptly
| conducted, can produce a Republican
| victory. 1t is reported that thus
far many times the amount of money
| has been spent on the La Toilette
campaign as on either the Republi-
| can or Democratic campaign"
| THAT is from the yarn factory"
| remarked Mr.. Walsh.
La Follette's counsel told the COM
| mittee the effort to raise campaign
| funds did not stop with the Republi-
| can national committee, the bankers
| and the manufacturers and business
| men. To support that assertion he
| produced letter written by former
! Representative Carl w. Riddick, of
| Montana, national organizer of the
| National Republican league, solicit
! ing campaign contributions.
Now I want to call attention to
/ another fact" Walsh said. There
is another avenue for making ex-
penditures, and a most important
one, and that is the adjuncts which
| are used to brighten the larger
amounts out of these very rich men.
We have a communication that has
been broadcast in this country. with
a release from G. Franklin Ream,
president of the American Econom-
ic institute.
| Charges Railroad Propaganda
This concern is the successor of
| the discredited National Transpor-
alton institute, which was denounced
| in the United States senate. II was
really the representative of the rail
roads, and sent out propag anda to
influence legislation and rate-mak-
| ing
This letter said the institute be-
/ lieved the greatest danger" today
was the threat of the radical labor
leaders, who are sponsoring the La
, Toilette movement, and who demand
the abolition of the Esch-Cummins
transportation act"
| Walsh also charged the, the Penn
sylvania railroad was circulating
propaganda on its menu cards in
| favor of Coolidge and Dawes, and
! he asked that Vice President At
| terbury be summoned to tell where
| the funds for this came from.
! Walshs request for the examina-
ton Of Commissioner O'Connor was