Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-12
S33,936 EXPENDED
TO NAME BAYARD
Wilmington Attorney Gives
Nye Committee List of
Contributors to Fund.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WILMINGTON, Del, october IL
Investigation into the recent primary
elections in Delaware was begun yester-
day by United States Senators Gerald
P. Nye and Roscoe C. Patterson, with
only few of the 13 witnesses SUBJ
poenaed being heard during the day.
Charles F. Curley. Wilmington attor-
ney, who managed the selection OF
delegates to the Democratic State con-
vention, said the campaign for former
United States Senator Thomas F..
Bayard, the Democratic candidate for
Senator, had cost $33,936.
He submitted a list of contributors
including Mrs. Elizabeth du Pont
Bayard, wife of the candidate, who
gave Sill 500: John j. Raskob, chairman
of the Democratic National Committee,
$7,400 E. E. du Pont, $4,000; Pierre du
Pont. $4,000; Irenee du Pont, $4,000,
and w. F. Raskob, $500.
Curley asserted that $19,654 of the
total campaign cost had been spent for
maintenance of headquarters in Will
mington and rural Newcastle County
and that $500 for transportation of
delegates to the State convention was
not included in the statement of ex-
penSes.
The association against the prohibit
ton amendment, he said. had no con-
nection with the Campaign Committee
and made no contributions to 1t. No
other organization spent any money on
Bayard's behalf, said Curley.
Held Newspaper Enterprise.
Gerald Montaigne, assistant State tax
commissioner, said he had not taken a
part III the Democratic campaign, but
had supplied a list of names from the
tax Office for use by the Wilmington
Every Evening in poll of the States
electors to determine sentiment on the
Republican and Democratic aspirants
for the Senatorship.
The list of names was a public one
costing $1,400 and paid for by Pierre
du Pont, State tax commissioner, out of
his personal funds, Montaigne ex-
planned.
william S. Metten, publisher of the
Wilmington Every Evening. testified
that the poll had been undertaken as a
newspaper enterprise and that the
political side was regarded as incidental
He said that John j. RaSkob had asked
him what he thought of conducting a
poll and that he took the matter under
consideration. He said Raskob reim-
bursed the newspaper with $6,000 Bal
lots received by the newspaper were
locked in a vault in the newspapers
Office.
The days hearing was concluded with
the questioning of Robert w Kramer,
former chairman of the Democratic
City Committee, concerning the circu-
lation OF the petitions urging Bayard's
candidacy. When asked who helped TO
urge the signing of petitions, Kramer
replied he did not care 10 answer the
question and did not think it had a
bearing on the matter.
Some day." Senator Nye said at
may become necessary to compel you to
answer that question"
Bayard Nomination Costly.
Senator Nye, at the conclusion of the
hearing, said the expenditure of $685.
936 to obtain the nomination of Bayard
was the largest amount, compared with
the number of votes cast, spent for the
nomination of any senatorial candidate
in the country. Bayard received $4,000
votes.
The cost per vote In Delaware. he
said, was greater than those cast for
Mrs. Ruth Hanna Mccormick in Illi-
nois or in the three-cornered fight
among Senator George Wharton Pep
per, William S. Ware and Clifford Pin
chot in Pennsylvania in 1927.
Senator Nye announced his commit
tee would return here after the Noyem-
Der election further to inquire into the
expenditures on behalf of Bayard and
Senator Daniel o. Hastings, Repub-
tcan.