Evening star., 1934-04-10
CANNON COUNSEL
ABSOLVES WOMAN
Churchman Will Shoulder
All Blame in Handling
of Contributions.
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would show that in the early part oi
the campaign, when funds were
scarce, Bishop Cannon used his own
money and borrowed from friends to
carry on the fight. Later, he said
these advances were repaid out OF
contributions, including the Jameson
contribution.
Quotes Jameson.
The attorney said Jameson delivered
the $65, 800 to Cannon, not as chair
man of a political committee, but
because of the high confidence
Jameson had in Cannon's position as
leader of public morals in the South
and because he had confidence in his
ability to spend the money so as to
secure the greatest possible benefit to
the campaign against Smith.
He said the defense would show
that Jameson said to Cannon: Here's
the money. Use your own judgment
Spend part of it in the South and
part in Virginia. Spend as you see fit,
but carry Virginia for the Repub-
hcans on this great moral question
of repeating the eighteenth amend
ment"
McNeill told the jury approximately
S50,000 was contributed to the COM
mittee by southern churches, tenn
perance groups and individuals. Every
penny of this money was reported to
the House, he continued, because it
was expended generally throughout
the South.
Early Training Cited.
He said the defense would call men,
bers of the Virginia State Political
Committee directing the anti-Smith
fight there to show that the remaining
$4,000 of the Jameson contribution
was spent solely in Virginia and under
their supervision. We will also prove,
he said, that there was no duty on
the part of Cannon or any one else
to report the receipt or expenditure
of this money. Bear in mind" he
continued, that there is no charge
that any of this money was used to
corrupt anybody or in violation of the
election laws"
He added the defense would show
that Cannon, from time he was 12
years old, was taught by his mother,
a leader of the Women's Christian
Temperance Union, to hate and abhor
the liquor traffic. Some of you Jurors
may have disagreed with him." Nc
Neil said, but am sure you will
grant him the right to believe as he
did"
He promised to prove that Repub-
licans in Virginia and North Carolina
spent far more money than Cannon
and that none of them was required
to report any of it. Bishop Cannon, /"
he declared, lis the only one of the
hundreds of men participating in that
bitter campaign, in the course of
which millions of dollars were spent.
to be brought before a criminal bar"
Useu His Own Salary.
Cannon, he said, is prepared to
account for every dollar of the
Jameson contribution and to show
that all of it went directly into the
campaign or to reimburse advances
secured by him in the early stages
when money was scarce. He also said
1t would be shown the bishop bor-
rowed money on his own real estate
and used his church salary in financ-
ing the campaign during its early
stages.
Surely" he declared, "it cannot
be contended he was not entitled to
have this money back from later con-
tributions. He took nothing back that
he hadn't put in"
McNeill suggested that Cannon and
Miss Burroughs might have been
guilty OF perjury if they had reported
the entire Jameson contribution, since.
under the law, they were supposed to
report contributions spent in two or
more States.
List of Defense Witnesses.
The list of defense witnesses in
cludes DR.. S. c. Hatcher, president of
Randolph College; Lewis F..
Powell and Rev. John G. Scott, both
OF Richmond; DR.. E. H. Cherrington,
prominent Anti-Saloon League worker,
and several members of The Virginia
Anti-Smith Committee.
M. J. Fulton of Richmond, Va, rep
resenting Miss Burroughs, told the
jury she had no knowledge of the
Jameson contribution and certainly
could not be guilty of a conspiracy to
fail to report it. She was simply a
clerk working for rs cents an hour
Fulton said.
This little woman from Virginia is
a fine Christian woman" Fulton de-
clared. The breath of scandal has
never been blown against her char
acter until she was indicted in this
case"
Fulton said he was opposed to Can
non during the 1928 campaign and
spoke all over Virginia against his
political views as a Democrat.
~ One Woman On Jury.
a jury of II men and one woman
was selected to try the case at 8
O'clock yesterday. Each of the jurors
was asked by Justice Peyton Gordon
whether they would have any preju-
dice against the defendants because
they had opposed Smith on religious
grounds and because of his stand on
the liquor question. They were also
asked whether their loyalty to any
political party would affect their de-
termination of the case,
The members of the jury are:
Edgar F.. Barnes, ST., 5206 Fifth
street; William j. Beall, l3 Rhode
Island avenue northeast; William j.
Newman, 1888 Seventeenth street
northeast; Edgar H. Lynham, 1907
Meridian place; George Buscal, 2901
Thirteenth street northeast; Albert
A. Robey, TIT Otis place; Robert H.
Marshall, 3214 Fifth street southeast;
Armin A. Hufnagel, 1923 Illinois ave-
nue.; Mrs. Naomi A. jackson, 1901
Argonne place; Wallace M. Perry,
1927 Sixteenth street northeast; Har-
ry Sterling Leimbach, SOB Rhode Is
land avenue northeast, and Edgar F..
McIntire 54Q0 Third street