Evening star., 1926-06-17
AYERS HE WAS MISQUOTED.
O'COnnOr Declared He Did Not Say
lie Was Offered Sl5O. 900 to Quit.

Frank y. O'Connor. the defeated
Pepper Fisher candidate for Repre-
sentative Wares seat in the House,
testified before the investigating com
mittee last night that a story printed
in the Philadelphia Evening Public
Ledger on May 10, quoting him as
saying he had been offered $150.000 to
withdraw from the race, was manu-
factured. O'Connor declared he had
made no such statement
The Public Ledger of this morning,
however. printed an affidavit by Her
man ii. Anderson. the reporter who
wrote the story. declaring that he had
correctly quoted OConnor and re
iterating that the latter had made the
statement that Representative Ware s
organization offered me S150.O00 TO
withdraw from the race for the Re
publican nomination for Congress
from the district Ware now repre-
sents.'
Gives Reed Chance.
Rv summoninC WAYNE e. Wheeler
TODAY the committee provided the OPP
rortunity denied it's chairman, Sena-
tor Reed. Democrat. Missouri, at the
recent prohibition hearing to examine
the Anti-Saloon League counsel with
respect to expenditures of his orGanl-
zation in attempts to influence sena
torial elections. In addition to TINS
nhase of the campaign, the committee
also disclosed its interest In reports
of q 5000 900 w. G. II. l.. fund ana
in the transfer of former Prohibition
Administrator Baird shortly before the
primary from Pittsburgh to Phlladei-
phia.
These angles were brought into the
limelight during yesterdays proplhs
into the machinery of the PennSElVa'
MIA political camps, during when
number of workers prominent In lhe
Ware councils were given marked at
tention. Other Ware leaders, including
Representative NORM. general director
OF his campaign in western fenhsyi-
yania: John A. Fucass and Charles \.
Anderson of the Pittsburgh committee,
we're directed to be on hand today.
Harry A. Mackey. grand chief OF
the Ware forces throughout the state,
insisted at the conclusion OF his cross
examination late yesterday that there
Is no evidence that there was any IL
legal expenditure of money by elther
the Pjnrhot Pepper or Ware orGanlZa :
tinns" Little was added 10 the total,
now somewhere around $4,000, 900. by
figures assembled during. the days
proceedings.
Statements Are Disputed
Mos, Of the session was devoted to
digging for the inside story of activi-
ties in the rival orga aniZations. and it
turned up another case In which the
statements Of newspaper men and po-
litical workers were at odds, this time
in Pittsburgh. William A. White. city
editor of the Pittsburgh Press. testl-
fed that a story quoting Mayor
Charles A. Kline as telling city EN-.
nloyes they would he dismissed un-
less they voted for Pepper and Fisher.
was based on stenographic tran
script of a speech by the mayor. The
latter. called Immediately afterward,
denied he had made such statement
White also was questioned about
the transfer Of Baird. and said the
former administrator had succeeded
in "clamping down pretty tight in
Pittsburgh" but after his departure
for Philadelphia the town opened
up'' and good beer" was on tap in
the saloons. with Pepper Fisher ban
ners on display.
w Heber Dithrich. chairman Of
the Pepper Fisher committee In Ale
gheny County told of taking the
place at the behest of w. l.. Mellon
and asserted that the latters uncle,
Secretary Mellon, had saved the
day in western Pennsylvania for
their ticket He said one of the
bills vet to be paid by his committee
amounted to about $4,000 for the
Motor Square Garden mass meet
ing." at which the Secretary made
the only political speech of his life