Evening star., 1951-02-20

examination referred to took place
in these executive sessions of the
committee.
Cites Mccormick Speech.
I next call your attention to a
speech by Col. Robert Mccormick
editor and publisher Of the Chicago
Tribune which owns the Times
Herald and Is the largest single
stockholder in the Mutual Broad
casting Corp. This speech appears
in Col. McCormick's own paper.
the Chicago Tribune, Of November
II. 1850. In that speech, McCor-
mick said "now the Republican
victory In Maryland was prepon-
derantly the work Of the Times
Herald. Bazy Mccormick and
Roscoe Simmons"
Now. just who is Roscoe Sim
mons? My own investigation tells
me your committee will find that
Roscoe Simmons. a colored gentle
man Of Chicago. is not a resident
or voter Of the State Of Maryland.
Yet he Is one Of the trio who Col.
Mccormick says achieved Repub-
lican victory in Maryland. The
other two are the Times-Herald
and the colonel's niece. Bazy Nc
Cormick (Mrs. Miller). How did
Roscoe Simmons get into Mary
land and who paid his expenses
and salary while here? Evidently
the Chicago Tribune and the
Times-Herald-both corporations
knew him quite well. I think
you will find that Bazy cCormick
(Mrs. Miller) remarked in the
Times-Herald office on election
night that the credit for Tydings'
defeat was due more to Roscoe
Simmons. the Chicago colored
man. then to any one else con-
nected with the Republican cam
paign. You will find that Roscoe
Simmons worked out Of the Butler
headquarters. I would like in
quiry made fully as to who paid
him. whether he was paid in full
for his salary and expenses.
Hundreds Of thousands Of special
pamphlets were used by Simmons.
These were paid for by the Butler
Headquarters. The sponsors listed
on these documents, I am advised,
never authorized their names to
be used. Yet Simmons without
such authorization brazonly puts
the names Of these sponsors, who
were ecclesiastics. on these PAM
phlets in order to deceive the
voters Of Maryland.
There has come to my atten-
ton cumulative evidence of the
wholesale use of funds in an IL
legal and irregular manner. These
illegal funds run into many thou
sands Of Sdollars in the Butler
campaign. There has been given
to your investigators checks that
were indorsed by Mr.. Butler to
pay printing bills without those
checks passing through his cam
paign treasurer. They were hand
ed directly by Butler to his
printer. You will find a letter
written by Mr.. Butler guarantee
ing the payment Of some 10 or
more thousands Of dollars of print
ing bills to q printer even though
the law, prohibits senatorial can
didates from contributing more of
their own funds than approx
mately $4,000. =.
Denies Costs Were Reported.
You win nnd that Buffers
campaign manager, Jon Jonkel
carried q check for $4,000 from
Buffers campaign headquarters
which was subsequently used in
Washington. D. c.. to defray the
cost Of the Butler campaign. No
accounting at all, as required by
law, was made of this expendi-
ture. You will find that the bills
paid and accounted for by Butler
and his political agent, as re-
quired by Maryland law. do not
include thousands of dollars OF
expenses which were contracted
and paid for. in whole or in part,
by the Butler Campaign Com
mittee. This Is a clear violation
Of both Federal and Maryland
laws.
Likewise. there has been widely
published in the press the fact
that an individual, who is shown
already to have contributed $4,000
to the Butler campaign, assumed
obligations in excess of $4,000. in
addition. after the campaign was
over. Notwithstanding that Fed
eral law prevents any person from