Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-14
Illinois Nominee CritiCizeS
Senator Nye, Conducting
Campaign Probe.
$67,214 WAS DONATED
BY FRIENDS AND KIN
Cost Per 1000 Votes Less Than
in Hoover's Contest, She Says
as Witness.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, July disappearing be-
fore the Senate inquiry into the Illinois
Republican senatorial campaign, Ruth
Hanna Mccormick today defended her
personal expenditure Of $252,50O and
said an additional $67,214 was used In
her behalf by volunteer organizations
which supported her campaign.
Mrs. Mccormick presented a 1000
word statement in which she criticized
Senator Gerald P. Nye, chairman of the
Special Campaign Funds Committee, for
asserting that his investigation had
found she had spent approximately
$3.50 instead of the $252, 500 she had
reported
Nye'S Statement Questioned.
The Republican senatorial nominee
said Senator Nye's statement was mac
curate and misleading, based on the
fact that she voluntarily had submitted
a supplemental report setting forth the
spending of the $67,214 before his In
vestigatorS had inquired into those ex-
penditureS.
The $67,214 was used by three organi-
cations and was obtained by colitribu-
lions from friends and relatives, Mrs.
Mccormick said. The Voters Progress
League used $4,000, the Illinois Young
Peoples Republican Clubs $4,000 and
1924.
Mrs. Mccormick said her report Of
expenses was "a document which should
be scrutinized by all citizens inter-
ested in the problem of campaign ex-
penditures. The report for the first
time tells the whole story without any
confusing complications, either as to
source OF money, the nature of the dis
bursements, the exact total expended
or as to who spent it. hope my re-
port thus will be a contribution to the
public effort to understand our primary
election system and offer a basis for
remedial legislation"
Was Independent Race.
Mrs. Mccormick reiterated that she
mad conducted her campaign solely as
an independent Republican candidate
without any allegiance with any faction
or group She washed her hands of
the Chicago city Hall machine" and
all other Cook County organizations,
but acknowledged that she undoubtedly
had been more or less benefited by the
opposition of various factions to the
candidacy of Senator Charles S. Deneen,
her opponent.
She called attention to the fact that
her campaign cost her only $42.63 for
each 1000 votes, as compared with the
$lO5 Tor each 1000 expended in the
presidential campaign of President
Hoover in Illinois.
She referred to the charge given wide
publication that $1,000,00O had been
spent in her campaign. She challenged
that statement and repeated that the
report OF her expenses made under oath
10 the committee on May / was correct
and complete.
Mentions Deneen Race.
Mrs. Mccormick said Senator Deneen
mad the opposition of five different Re-
puphcan factions in Cook County and
that this fight for local control resulted
IN MS defeat by those who were protect
- their own organizations, but with
none Of which she had any alliance or
understanding.
She told the committee the statement
that the City Hall organization "de-
hVered' her victory in Cook County,
ignored the fact that she led some of
the City Hall candidates for important
offices in the county by from $4,000 to
e,000 votes, and won SIS counties out
plurality of $4,000
In response to questions by Senator
Nye. Mrs. Mccormick said she never had
heard of the Century of Progress
Women'S Club and knew of nothing, II
anything, that was done by 1t in her be-
half She described the personnel and
duties OF her regular staff of employees
and outlined her extensive agricultural
interests and publishing business in
RI ChnNx IaAN -.
larly employed a large staff, which
helped her in her campaign, but should
not be considered as an extra campaign
expense.
Did Not Use Frank.
She said she had not exercised her
franking privilege as Congresswoman to
mail campaign literature and had not
employed her official staff In Washing
ton to assist her campaign.
Senator Nye told Mrs. Mccormick he
had not said she spent more than the
$252,5OO she reported, but did say, and
would say now, that he had evidence
indicating considerably more than that
amount was spent in her behalf.
Mrs Mccormick replied that she
should be informed as to who made
any complaint against her campaign.
Senator Nye said she would be in
formed as the witnesses we're called.
Then Mrs Mccormick asked that she
be given the right to cross-examine
witnesses and Senator Nye told her he
would take the matter under considera-
ton.
Gifts to Charity.
Senator Nye then adjourned for the
noon recess Mrs. Mccormick explained
that when she appeared before the
committee in Washington she said she
had made no contributions to charity
or other benevolent gifts during the
campaign, although she should have
said no unusual" contributions
She made clear that she had made
the charitable gifts and other gifts TO
friends which she was in the custom of
making each year, but had made no
contributions which previously had not
been provided for in her annual bud
gets. She did not specify the amounts
nor to whom the gifts were made.
Others on Committee.
Although the committee includes four
members besides its chairman, only
Senator Nye was in Chicago for the
opening session. He said it was prob
able that Senator C. c. Dill Of Wash
ington would join him later. Any one
member is authorized to act for the
committee.
Senator Nye said his committee mere
ly would act as a fact-flnding body IN
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