The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-19
MELLON EMPLOYS
COP, MACHINE
FOR own ENDS
Money Used Freely to
Subsidize Press
BY LAURENCE TODD,
Federated Press)

WASHINGTON May II. - FP) -
If you want to know how Andrew
w. Mellon of Pittsburgh, secretary Of.
the treasury uses the machinery of
the republican party to advance big
business interests, you may read it in
certain reports, filed for public in
spection in the Office of the clerk of
the house Of representatives at Wash
ington.
Must List Donors.
These reports on receipts and ex-
penditures must be filed at least every
four months by all national political
committees, under the terms of a
Borah rider attached to the postofice
appropriation bill in 1925. Every
subscription Of 500 or more must be
listed, and every payment of $40 or
more must be shown as a separate
item.
Report No. lis, from the republican
national committee, made by Treas
urer Hodges for the period Jan 1 to
Mar 8, 1925, shows that the commit
tee gathered S22,001 in Chicago be-
tween Feb. II and Mar 2, and that
in the ten weeks covered by the re-
port it spent s26,4SO. In the four
months beginning Sept 1, 1925, it
spent SAL, 08575-a total in six months
and nine days of $67,566.72.
Businessmen Grateful.
CHFooOo NAV ,,.oro r~oAoF,,I
in February, for the services of the
Mellon-C oolidge-Butler inner control
Of the republican party in reducing
their income taxes. Hence this list Of
contributors from the Windy City:
VIM. Wrigley, Jr.. $4,000; ]. A. Pat
ten $4,000; Albert w. Harris, $4,000;
H. L. Stuart $1,700; E. R. Graham,
s1,666; Harrison B. Riley $1,000;
Louis Eckstein, $500; Chas G. Dawes,
$500, and Jos. E. Otis $135. 1885,
Going back to report No. 1O1, from
the G. o. P. national committee for
eptember.December, we find one
Jas. A. Buchanan drawing $S75 every
two weeks for postage, advertising,
Trans-Oceanic News Agency was get
ting $21667 and the Columbia Press
Association S333.33 about every two
weeks, for similar items. Party head
quarters are in the Munsey Bldg. On
Jan. Is there appears an item of
7 $2,259.30 paid to Jas A. Buchanan for
furniture, stock, supplies, etc, at
1919 F. st.
Renegade Democrat.
Now this Buchanan is identified as
a former Nevada democratic polite
ian who turned republican when he
got a job as secretary to Harry New,
senator from Indiana and now post
master general. Early in the Harding
regime Buchanan was given a job in
the White House publicity staff, but
later turned up as an agent Of the
national committee. He was in
charge of the lobbying thru the SEN
ate, early this year. of the confrma-
ton of Thos. L. Woodlock of Wall
Street as member of the interstate
commerce commission. Woodlock is
the NATURALIZATION propaganda whose
nomination Sen. Wheeler fought for
16 months.
Buchanan Sells Out
Now Buchanan seems to have sold
out to the committee the Columbia
Press Association and Trans Oceanic
News Agency, which have recently
been flooding Pennsylvania with pro-
Pepper and anti-Pinchot campaign
material. However, he continues to
identify himself with the national
committee, supporting the Mellon
candidates against progressives.
Chairman Butler, who was for many
years the lawyer for Boss Murray
Crane in Massachusetts,, has brought
to headquarters an old Crane lieuten.
ant, James c. White. Whites salary
/ check each fortnight is $3.50, but he
occasionally draws additional sums.
Thus on Jan. Is and on Mar. 1, and
again on the same day, Mar. l, White
OnOi con