The Washington times., 1936-05-19
LEADER TELL 5
OF $4,000
INCOME
Letters Reveal Raids
Proposed on Both
Parties
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HafTIeS
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from the nickels and dimes Of the
old folks. Representative Hoffman
asked:
"And all you gave them in re-
turn was viSiOn?"
Townsend arose to his feet and
said:
"NO, I gave them much more"
Townsend, in admitting his pc
litical aspirations, wrote Clements
that "the cry everywhere is why
don't we have our own party?''
and
THAT is just the thing 1 be-
lieve we should begin to do, talk
about the Townsend party, not
wait in the foolish hope that
one Of the old groups will adopt
us. To hell with them"
Sullivan asked:
"When are you starting your
p new party?"
"After the national cOnven.
tiOnS."
AIMED AT ARIZONA
Townsend planned, his letter to
Clements revealed, to 60 Into
Arizona, as soon as possible. and
help those people recall their two
Senator'S"
He charged that the Roosevelt
administration was a hostile
force" seeking to stamp out the
Townsend movement.
Much questioning dealt with an
article in a recent issue of the
Townsend Weekly calling on
Townsendites to raise an emerg-
ency war chest to be turned over
to DR.. Townsend.
The article based it's appeal for
the fund on a charge that the
congressional committee planned
to impound the Townsend funds.
Committee members ST. tie d
there was no such plan and that
they had no legal right to do so.
While Townsend admitted he
had received approximately
$4,000 from the pension move
ment, he said all he had today
was about $780,"
Denies Gain Sole Aim
Sullivan brought out that
Pierre TomlinSon, a neighbor of
Townsend in South Dakota, be-
fore he removed to Long Beach,
Cal, had testified before a con-
gressional subcommittee that
Townsend had begun the pension
movement purely as financial
venture. Sullivan asked:
did you tell your friend
that those old fossils don't
know what it's all about and I
might as well get their money
as some one elSe?"
DR.. Townsend replied:
81 did not"
Odd you say when you re-
ceived SIS bill from a woman sup
porter in the mail, This sisters
done her part?' A.-That is abso-
lutely false.
Q.-And did you tell your friend
that the people who stuck with
you in this pension movement
would get a hat full Of money?
Al did not.
Odd you say you hoped to
build your Townsend Weekly into
a publication larger than the Sat
urday Evening Post to gain large
revenues and make a hat full Of
money? Al hoped to build the
paper into large publication.
Sullivan'S questions brought a
heated debate in committee. Rep
resentative Tolan CD of Califor-
mia, a Townsend supporter and
committee member, objected on
the ground that the full commit.
tee had not heard the testimony
of Tomlinson.
His objection was overruled
after Representative Gavagan
CD of New York said the testi-
mony was taken by his subcom-
mittee in Investigations at Los
Angeles.
Set-Up Revealed
TomlinSon said he was employed
by Townsend to promote the pen
sion movement and particularly
DR.. Townsend. His testimony
read:
1.-THE idea was to set DR..
Townsend up on q pedestal. We
had to have an inspiration"
Tomlinson said he was bought
out by Townsend after he "got
things going"
He said he was paid $1,70O on
one occasion and $500 on another.
He said he turned over $35, 900
to the movement in six months.
On one occasion, Tomlinson
said, Clements told him in the
presence of Townsend that he ex-
pected "thiS racket to last two
years."