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suing kind of fellow I could have
gotten rich last year out of what
some of the papers said about me,
but I'm not that kind of fellow
] can give it and take it."
Poor Man Can't Run.
Mr.. Ferguson told the COM
mittee that "a poor manor
even a person of moderate means
cannot afford to run for high
public Office today"
In more than four hours on the
witness stand yesterday, Senator
Taft insisted that, if all the out
lays made by labor organizations
in support of Mr.. Ferguson could
be eValuated, they would show
that the Democratic campaign
cost three times as much as was
spent in his behalf.
Each candidate now has esti-
mated the expenditures in behalf
of his opponent at far more than
the figures gathered by the COM
miUtee staff.
S1,804,182 for Republicans.
Committee Counsel John T.
Moore placed in the record late
yesterday an exhibit showing total
receipts of $1,8O4, 1928 by all
committees working for the Re
publican ticket in Ohio last year
OF this total S507,515.98 was listed
to the Taft for Senate Commit
tees and the remainder to the
Republican State Central and
Executive Committee and the
Ohio Republican Finance Com
mittee. for use of the entire ticket
Chairman Gillette interrupted
the testimony to describe as far
cial and travesty" the practices
which have grown up among Sem
ate candidates generally in re-
porting their campaign expendi-
lures to the Senate under Federal
law.
Negating Purpose of Law.
He noted that in Ohio last year
Senator Taft reported his per-
sonal campaign costs at about
$1,000 and Mr.. Ferguson reported
his at about $2.270. after which
he evidence at these hearings dis
close many thousands of dollars
having been spent by various COM
mittees working for each candi-
date.
Senator Gillette pointed out
that Federal law requires candi-
dates to report receipts and ex-
penditures made "by him or by
any person for him with his
knowledge and consent"
Senator Gillette said he was not
directing his statement at Mr..
Ferguson. who was on the stand,
because you have a lot of COM
pany among both Democrats and
Republicans, who are clearly
the purpose of the law
now on the books"
Senator Taft spent the after
noon session yesterday giving de-
tailed examples of unfair tactics
he said were used against him by
labor union leaders. Most of it
related to alleged misrepresenta-
ton of his voting record in Con-
greSs. but he also charged in.
stances of threats of reprisals,
loss of jobs and union member
ship" against workers if they
voted for Taft.
Senator Taft leveled much of
his attack at a speakers hand
book he said was prepared for use!
against him by the CIO-PAC. The
Senator got a laugh when he
quoted one excerpt from the book,
as follows:
"As a baby, Robert Alphonso
was greedy for oatmeal. His nurse
tried to curb his appetite by CIV
ing him plain milk instead of rich
cream served at the Taft break
fast table. When that didn't work
the nurse held out on the sugar
These tactics must have made a.
deep impression on the young
heir. Fifty years later he was
using them himself. When Taft
found he couldn't block certain
welfare measures in the Senate
he tried to take the good parts
out of them"
Opposed Use of Ads.
When Committee Counsel Moore
placed in the record samples of
newspaper ads run in Ohio news
papers during the campaign, the
Senator said they were inserted
BY local groups and organizations,
because his headquarters advised
against newspaper advertising. He