Evening star., 1926-06-09

Saloon League had contributed to his
4 campaign.
The witness replied that, the league
had not done so. and thattit had not
been active in his campaign, nor had
any of it's general officers taken an
active part. The W. G. r. T.. he
said had worked for him. although 1t
did not give any financial support to
his campaign committees. nor had
his committees turned over funds to
the W. c. r. L., except for campaign
expenses.
Saloon League had not sent out a
letter urging the drys to vote for the
candidate who had the greatest
strength against Ware. running as a
wet" and II II had not followed ur
this letter with another picking Pep
per as the strongest candidate.
Gov. Pinchot said that the first
letter referred to had been sent out
but that he did not know of a second
letter urging the voters to support
Pepper being sent out by the league.
He said he thought he did recall some
local dry orga nization sending out
SUCH letter.
False Registrations Thrown Out.
GOV Pinchot said that his cam
paign committees had not. to. his
knowledge, contributed any funds to
the labor orGa niZations supporting
him.
Turning to the question of cam
raiGn frauds. Senator Reed said he
recalled that statement had heen
made by Gov. Pinchot to the effect
that $4,000 persons were falsely regis
tered in Pittsburgh.
IL 49, eSa "a Ant
had mentioned 1000 such false regis
traticns. His attention had been call
ed 10 this matter. he said, by the
registration commissioners. The poll
tax list and tie registra ton list had
been compared and many of these
false registrations had been thrown
out, he said.
Charges Votes Were Held.
After Gov Pinchot had mentioned
10 the committee the newspaper re-
ports Of alleged election frauds in
Pitt sburgh. pointing out that these re-
ports declared that the returns and
ballots had been taken into the offices
Of the county commissioners and held
there for two days, Senator Goff of
West Virginia asked II the vote had
hoen announced in the mea ntlme.
1T was not" he replied.
In reply to another question the
Governor said that the commissioners
we're friendly to Senator Pepper and
unfriendly to himself.
It was brought ont that the ballots
and returns We're supposed to be in
the hands Of these commissioners. hut
that the returns had To be plaza rded
Immediately after the ballots were
counted at the polling places. Gov.
Pinchot said that this had been done.
but that many placards had been tax
en- down and destroyed inmedia tely.
He said II was reported that the
representatives of some Of the can
didates were refused permission to
examine the returns in the court
house.
Were any of your representatives
refused such permission?" asked
Senator Reed.
Gov. Pinchot said they were not,
but that he understood representa-
tives of Mr.. Beidleman had been
refused.
Senator King wanted to know II
Beidleman had not lodged contest
soon afterward
Yes. I understand there was COM
rlaint Of fraud" replied the governor.
BY mutual consent. don't know the
details
Senator King called attention to
the fact that the list cf contributions
to the Pinchot campaign fund
showed large contributions by Cor
neha q. pinchot. Mrs. Charles e.
Wood and George W. Woodruff. The
governor explained that the frst was
his wife. and that Mrs. Wood. who
makes her home In Washington. was
his aunt and that Mr.. Woodruff was
.,lN~ 80 1t
close friend.
The statement showed there were
two contributions Of &25.000 each
bv Mrs. Wood. Amos Pinchot,
brother Of the governor. contributed
$4,000 and Mrs. Pinchot, wife Of
tho governor. 100000.
The committee will resume its
hearings at 230 o'clock this after
noon.