Evening star., 1926-10-25
Brands Charges as False and
Declares Investigation
DisCredited Author.
PROPAGANDA 'P0PPYCOCK'
LEAGUE WORKER ASSERTS
Myers Says Cheap Pamphlets Were
Distributed to Non-Voters.
Oregon Probe Ordered.


Nations Non-Partisan Association was
trying to effect the senatorial cam
paigns in Indiana is "poppycock," Jo-
seph Myers, jr., declared today at
the resumption here Of the Senate in
quiry into that campaign.
Myers represented that association
in Indiana during the first six months
of this year and Clyde A. .Walb, chair
man of the Indiana Republican State
committee, testified last week at Chi,
cago that "the propaganda" put out
by the association was designed to
defeat Senators Watson and Robin
son, Republicans. because of their
vote against the World Court
That's poppycock and nonsense. -
Myers said. 1T is the result OF the
fevered imagination of a political
leader who is either illiterate or ter
rified, perhaps both"
Reed Attacks Walb.
Chairman Walb also came in for an
attack by Senator Reed, Democrat,
Missouri, chairman of the committee,
in a statement by the Nnssourian be-
fore he reopened the hearing at the
Federal Building.
Il think that the investigation in
Indiana proved conclusively that the
chairman of the Republican commit.
tee put out deliberate falsehoOd, and
ne was fully diSCredited," Senator
Reed declared.
He said that the State was flooded
with money, but the money turned out
to be lot of cheap pamphlets. That
gentleman and his story We're left sus-
pended in the air.
Senator Reeds statement was made
after he had denied he had stated at
indianapolis last Friday that the In.
diana inquiry was furnishing only
"chaff." He was quoted by the In
dmnapolis News as having made such
d statement: - 'sssss-~3 ...,
Explains Pamphlet Distribution.
Explaining that his salary was So 600
q year, with $50 a month for expenses.
Myers testified that the pamphlets he
distributed and>which Walb produced
at Chicago went monthly to non.
voters. college and high school stu
dents.
Was that campaign carried on only
in Indiana or all over the Union y
Chairman Reed asked.
All over the Cnion," Myers said
adding that the League of Nations
partisan Association was the one
headed by former Supreme Court JUS
tice Clark.
Did anybody succeed you when YOU
came to Kansas City?" Senator Reed
asked.
"No one that 1 know Of" Myers
said.
DO you know anything about an
SS,o0O,000 fund for world peace al
legged TO have been subscribed by mil.
llonaires?" Senator Reed asked.
II know nothing of any such fund. Z"
Myers replied.
Walb previously had told Senator
Reed that he had heard such a fund
was subscribed at New York meet.
ing and that Myers might be able to
tell about it.
Says Expenses Were $50.
Who paid your salary?"
The League of Nations Non-par rti.
san Association. 1t was sent in. a
check to Alfred w. Taylor of Indian.
apons, who was assisting in the work
and that the $50 expense money was
included"
Wen. we won't go into a $50 ex.
pendlture in an Indiana campaign. !"
Reed said. You say that any state
ment that your organization tried to
oefeat Senators is untrue?" the Sen.
ator proceeded.
II do,' Myers returned. 'It is an
enort to draw red herring across
the trail in Indiana politics"
Then you were not trying to de-.
teat Senators Watson and Robinsono"
NO. But personally l would like to
see them defeated. I do not think
they are the caliber of men to REPRE-.
sent any great commonwealth in the
United States Senate"
Myers told Senator Reed that If
ne wanted to find out how the League
of Nations Non-Partisan Association
was financed he could do so from
Hamilton Holt, formerly of New York
but now president of Rollins College
at West Palm Beach, Fla.
Tells of "PoisOn Squad"
Senator Reed announced that he was
informed that Mrs. Vivian Tracy
Wheatcraft. vice chairman of the
Indiana State Republican committee,
was ill at st. Louis and could not
give her testimony at this time
The chairman called Frank J. Prince,
a newspaper correspondent of Indiana
polls, Ind, to testify that Mrs Wheat
craft gave an interview to him and to
WAS. Douglass, Western correspond.
ent of the Baltimore Sun, in which
she said she had organized "a poison
among the women Of the State
to aid Senator Watson in his primary
campaign.
Before questioning Prince, Senator
Reed read into the record an account
of the interview as written by Doug
lass and published in the Sun. Mrs.
Wheatcraft was quoted as saying that
It was the work Of the women to
carry on a whispering campaign"
After the publication appeared last
August Mrs. Wheatcraft issued a
statement denying that she ever had
made any statement about "a poison
squad" or Whispering campaign"
Later Denied Story.
Prince testified that Mrs. Wheat.
craft had stated during the interview
that she had organized q committee
of 10 women in each Of the 1851 pre-
cincts and that through them she
could butter" the State with any in
formation she desired to.
''At the conclusion Of the inter
view." Prince said, 1--WE asked Mrs.
Wheatcraft II she desired us to omit
any of the interview and she said she
did not. Mr.. Douglass and /, after
made our notes separately: