The Coconino sun., 1926-11-05

sonal money from Senator Cameron
to defray expenses of advertising.
The investigator called upon the in
ternal revenue collector for q COM
plete record of his receipts and dis
bursements from April l Of this year
up to and including October 81 when
Towles testified that he had paid
for most of the Cameron advertising
with money given him by E. w.
Campbell secretary of Senator Cam
teron, and bad likewise incurred bills.
Some of these bills, he added, were
not yet paid and were included in
S1,345.55 which he had paid out per-
sonally.
Towles denied that anyone in his
office had contributed money to the
Cameron primary or general election
campaigns and assured Senator King
that he had never solicited any.
"How many republicans are there
in your office?" King asked
about 10 or H."
"Any democrats ?"
zone"
oAnd you have absolute authority
to discharge any employee"
s.Yes."
Towles said that Hoval Smith was
treasurer and general manager" of
the Cameron campaign committee of
which Campbell was the other mem
Der. He himself, he said, held no Of
ficial position unless he could be
called detail" man.
The record of expenditures sub
mitted to Senator King by Towles
showed that S1,978.30 had been ex-
pended out Of money given him by
Campbell.
Rcverting to the contributions made
by Arizona postmasters, King drew
from Towles that Charles Alden,
Globe postmaster, had contributed
billboard advertising. No record OF
this expense, he said, kept showed
Alden also contributed to the cam
paign motion picture advertising
'Gowles said. because Alden owned a
theatre in Globe. The postmistress at
Mesa near Phoenix was induced to
get several Of her friends to contrl-
butte toward defraying Of expenses
of running a Cameron advertisement
in a weekly newspaper, Towles ad-
mitted under questioning.
"And you wrote letters to post
masters in the state?" King shot at
the witness.
"Well, if you put it that way"
'Did you or didn't you?" thundered
King.
'Yes."
Bring me copies of every letter
you have written to every postmaster
in this state during the pre-primary,
primary and general election cam
paigns," King ordered.
Il have beem advised that you
franked certain publicity material
out Of your office" Senator King
continued.
absolutely no" Towles returned.
The testimony of c. w Van Dyke,
owner of the Miami Silver Belt, was
pitiful admission that the charge
that slush money had come from
California was merely rumor. He
admitted that he believed it but
could not remember who told him
about it; did not know much more
about it. He testified he had circu-
lated some $4,000 papers in special
edition carrying Cameron and Hunt
propaganda, but did not know what
| it cost. He had not been paid for it.
The newspaper men of the state
called up by the U. S. Marshall's Of
flee in the dead hours of the night
and subBoenaed as witnesses at the
demand of Senator Cameron were
not pleased, to put it mildly. Their
evidence showed that Cameron had
used more advertising by far than
HAYDEN. No connection could be
made between the Ellinwood cam
paign expenditures with those Of
Hayden.
The general impression prevailed
that Senator Cameron had asked for
something he did not want. He got it
and it acted as a boomerang of the
most deadly sort.