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Show NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Managers of Both Parties Are Raising Big Hullabaloo Over Campaign Funds. LAW ViOLATICriS CHARGED Gompers Asks Union Labor to Support Sup-port Cox More Trouble in Mining Fields Poles Destroy Buden-ny's Buden-ny's Red Army in Galicia. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. Candidate Cox nnd the ninnnirers of Protective Tariff association, the Committee of American IHisiness Men, the American Defense society and the Kepulilicnn Publicity association. As for the Humes book, the Democrats Demo-crats assert the Jiepublicans are breaking break-ing the law by accepting for tin's campaign cam-paign effort contributions from corporations. cor-porations. The senatorial committee decided to liear more of it from Mr. Harnes, probably in Pittsburgh. Provoked into recrimination, I lie Republicans Re-publicans are making various accusations accusa-tions against their opponents. In the first place Chairman Hays asserted Ihe Democrats were planning to raise a fund of $10,000,000 which the latter lat-ter promptly denied. Then Mr. Hays charged that the liquor Interests were actively engaged in supporting the campaign of Governor Cox, and he produced a letter signed by the president pres-ident of the New Jersey Federation of Liquor Interests which said the fused the wage demands of the men. For days very few cars were operated. The railroads of the country began operations on their own resources on September 1. During the six months in which their earnings were guaranteed guaran-teed by the transportation . uct they cost the government about $100,000,000 a month. The only further aid they will get from the government comes from loans from the revolving fund created by the act. The Tennessee house of representatives representa-tives tried to undo Its action in ratifying rati-fying the suffrage amendment by expunging ex-punging from its journal all record of the ratification and voting to nonconcur noncon-cur in the action of the senate. Next day the senate refused to join with the house Id Its attempted reversal of the ratification. Secretary of State Colby says woman suffrage Is an accomplished ac-complished fact and that there Is no both the Democratic and the Hepub-lican Hepub-lican campaigns have created a deal of noise and fury with their charges and counter-charges relating to the campaign funds. Accusations and retorts, re-torts, denials and admissions have been flying thick and probably will not cease for some time. The senatorial investigating committee seemingly is determined to get at the truth without with-out fear or favor, and if certain of the charges are sustained, legal pro-, ceedlngs ore likely to result. Republican managers assert that Cox's charges that they had conspired to buy the presidency with huge sums of money have been completely disproved. dis-proved. Homer Cummings, former Democratic national chairman, told the senators he could find no evidence of corruption hi the Hepublican plan for raising campaign funds, and added that bis own party organization was trying to raise funds by the same method used by the Republicans. But, he complained, the latter had been the more successful. Neither Mr. Cummings Cum-mings nor any other witness heard by the committee was willing to admit that the presidency could be "bought." Mr. Cox elaborated bis statements by making public a document entitled "Campaign Plan in Larger Cities," which he said proved the Republican Repub-lican national committee was seek-fiig-tf raise sums ranging from $5,000 io-..$10,000. Treasurer Up-hani Up-hani disposed of this by explaining explain-ing that the plau outlined in the document was not ratified; but on the contrary was vetoed almost ' w ithout discussion because the national com-" mittee was determined to try out the 51,000 limit plan. How closely this was adhered to was told the senators by National Chairman Hays. He said: "During the period from June 14, 1920, to August 20, 1920, there were 12,3S9 men and women contributors to both the national committee and to state uioiiuiiiiauii nau sei oul 10 uo us pari toward the election of Mr. Cox and called for assistance, financial and otherwise oth-erwise The reply of the Democrats to this is that they have received no contributions from either the wets or the drys. More serious, perhaps, was the accusation ac-cusation made before the senators that the Democrats were breaking the law by assessing federal officeholders for campaign money. . W. D. Jamieson, director of finances 'for they Democratic Demo-cratic national committee, was questioned ques-tioned closely concerning this and partly admitted its truth, but said the soliciting letters were sent to the homes of the officeholders and that he was soliciting funds from Democrats as Democrats, not as federal officials. He said his office had sent out about 300,000 letters of appeal. He told of a card index of fiOO.OOO Democrats with Incomes. But he said the income estimates were made by Democratic lenders In the various neighborhoods, not from the Income tax reports in the department at Washington. The combined efforts of Senators Reed, Spencer, Edge and Kenyon brought out from Mr. Jamieson the fact that federal officials generally were solicited; that they were Informed In-formed of the exact amount they were expected to give, and that only those who were so poorly paid that Mr. Jamieson "didn't think it worth while to waste a 10-cent special delivery on a 1-eent man" were excepted from the assessment. Samuel Gompers and his associates InS management of the American Federation of Labor have finally announced an-nounced themselves in the matter mat-ter of the presidential campaign. The "nonpartisan political committee" com-mittee" of the federation has issued is-sued a report on the candidates for the presidency In which Governor Cox is proclaimed a stronger cham- chance for reconsideration. Another great victory for the Poles was recorded last week. General Budenny's bolshevist army, which had invaded Galicia and was threatening threat-ening Lemberg nnd the rich oil fields of that region, was cut off and virtually destroyed. Only a few detachments escaped and these were reported in disorderly retreat. re-treat. Budenny's men, mostly mounted, mount-ed, were advancing on Lublin and had nearly surrounded Znmose, midway between that city and Lemberg, when the Poles flanked them and attacked from the east, putting them to rout. The Russians had walked Into a trap deliberately set by the Poles. The losses of the reds In men and material mate-rial were heavy. The "retirement" of this army was officially admitted by Moscow. In the north the Russo-Polish war degenerated de-generated Into a confused series of isolated battles, various units of both sides being separated from their main commands and in some cases forced across the East Prussian border. In general, however, the Poles continued their successes of the former week, and they even advanced into Lithuanian Lithuan-ian territory for strategic purposes despite the orders of Lithuania to the contrary. What Germany would do with the many thousands of reds who took refuge in East Prussia was a pressing question. The Poles feared these men would be permitted to reenter re-enter Russian territory and rejoin their army, and there was reason for this fear. The Germans complained they had not enough troops there to guard the interned reds, but their hatred of the Poles is so great that their motives are open to grave suspicion. sus-picion. What promised to develop Into another an-other severe blow for the soviet Russians Rus-sians was the drive started by the City voted a bond issue of $200,000, the proceeds of which will be used to rebuild and enlarge the municipal power plant. In addition, power rights in Box Elder canyon will be purchased. Disbursement of about $52,000 in dividends of 5 per cent to the depositors de-positors in the defunct Merchants' bank at Salt Lake was made last week. This makes about 70 per cent the depositors have received. Ogden will have its annual fashion show and harvest festival this month, according to the action taken by the Ogden chamber of commerce in naming nam-ing a chairman of the committee to "start the ball rolling." Final notice that vigorous prosecution prosecu-tion awaits the manufacturers and sellers of extracts for beverage purposes pur-poses has been sent out to dealers all over the state by the federal prohibition prohibi-tion director for Utah. An overdose of medicine taken either by mistake or with suicidal intent caused the death at an early hour Friday of John Davells, a Greek, proprietor of a rooming house and restaurant res-taurant at Salt Lake. Automobile licenses are now sold at half price. This applies to motorcycles, motorcy-cles, automobiles, trucks and trailers. The licenses are good until March 1 next, but will have to be renewed during dur-ing the year 1921. The Utah state road commission has given instructions to engineers and workmen to proceed immediately with repairing of the Zlon National park road in co-operation with the federal government. E. C. Rice, 47 years of age, a resident res-ident of Los Angeles, shot and killed Ed A. Mayer in a room at a hotel in Salt Lake. Rice claims he shot in self-defense. Half pay will be given to public school teachers of Salt Lake during committees through the joint collecting collect-ing organization, an average of $S2.11. Of these none have been over the thousand-dollar rule except eight, which eiglit have given a total of $13,500, an average of $1,GS7.50. The highest of these was $2,500." On Tuesday Mr. Upham supplemented supplement-ed this by submitting the full list of contributors to the Harding fund. Fewer than a dozen, he said, had given more than $1,000 and two. subscriptions sub-scriptions of $5,000 each were the largest received to date. The quotas for the national fund, Mr. Upham said, totaled $4,SS7,0O0 approximately, with SSOO.OOO additional quotas for special state funds, but that it was n case of "50 per cent off for cash." He said the glowing '"bulletins" sent out to Republican fund workers and quoted extensively by Governor Cox were "bull" and "salesmanship." The Republican Re-publican budget, he insisted, was for slightly more than $3,000,000. But the Democrats were not out of ammunition, by any means. The next thing they brought to the attention of the senatorial committee was the "de luxe" book. "Republicanism in 1920." which William Barnes of New York was said to be getting out. The senators sena-tors were shown a list of wealthy men who had pledged some $37,000 for this Barnes effort, and Wilbur Marsh, Democratic treasurer, said that to his mind it Indicated a plan to collect large campaign funds independently of the regular Republican machinery. He named a number of organizations that. I he said, were engaged in similar efforts, ef-forts, mentioning the National Young Men's Republican league, the Southern pion of organized labor than Senator Harding. Consequently members of unions are urged to vote for Cox. The report, which is signed by Gompers, Matthew Woll and Frank Morrison, lists as "favorable" or "unfavorable" to lahor the legislative record of Senator Sen-ator Harding as a member of the Ohio state senate and in the United States senate on measures in which organized labor had a special interest. It does likewise with Mr. Cox as a member of the house in 1912 and as governor of Ohio in 1913, 1914. 1917-19-20. The records of the candidates are summed up as follows: Harding Favorable, 7; unfavorable, 10; paired unfavorably, 1. Cox Favorable, 00; unfavorable, 0. More trouble has broken out in the mining fields. President Wilson, after receiving nnd approving the report of the wage award made by the federal commission for the anthracite miners, telegraphed his urgent request that the men also accept it. The miners' scale committee did this under protest, but a strong minority in 00 locals refused nnd voted to take a "vacation" until better terms were granted. In some of the bituminous fields also work has ceased. In Alabama the men struck on order of President Lewis because, he says, the terms of the agreement are not being carried out by the operators. op-erators. In Iowa the miners and operators op-erators failed to reach an agreement, but there may be no strike there. New York was badly tied up by an unexpected strike of about S.O'in employees em-ployees of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Trans-it company, which o-nccni is in the hands of a federal receiver who re- j Ki aiiiiiioo oi luiijuiioiun ii mi i o- land. They began by forcing the reds across the Dniester river near Buczacz and capturing that city. They have another force operating along tho Dniester river and it is hoped that it can unite with General Wrnngel. The peace parley at Minsk broke up, but the bolshevik government announced an-nounced Its willingness to resume the negotiations nt Riga. Dr. Wnlter Simons. German foreign minister, told the reichstag tbnt proposals pro-posals bad been mnde to him to cooperate co-operate with Russia against the wpft-ern wpft-ern powers ns a means of breaking the bonds imposed by the treaty of Versailles, Ver-sailles, but that he had rejected then, because they would mean that Germany Ger-many would become the theater of war. He said he had also rejecter proposals to unite with tho western powers against Russia. "No power at war with soviet Russia." the foreign j minister added, "need count on our j support." At last reports Lord Mayor Mac Swiney of Cork had not succeeded in starving himself to death in Brixton jail, but was growing :n.vs;or:ois!v ; stronger. The riots in Ireland and i efforts elsewhere in his hi half did not cease, but the British government -'at-ly refused to release him. Fran': P. Walsh, chairman of the American commission com-mission for Irish independence, nfter an interview with Secretary of S"ire Colby, made the curious assertion M-nt Mr. Colby has promised to "endrovor to do something and do it quickly" in behalf of the prisoner. What a:if Aiaerican etlicial can do proper!-.", in the circumstances, is a puzzle. the first ten days of incapacitating illness ill-ness the coming school year, it is announced. an-nounced. Clarence T. Wells, 25 years of age, was instantly killed when the automobile automo-bile delivery truck he was driving was truck by a train at Salt Lake. San Juan county has had a committee commit-tee of citizens investigating and inspecting in-specting a proposed route to the natural nat-ural bridges in that county. A Salt Lake City fireman has been sentenced to fifteen days in the city jail for driving in automobile while intoxicated. Three hundred cars of Iambs will be the maximum shipped from Ileber this year, compai'd with a general average aver-age of 500. James W. Funk, president of th state senate, has resigned his senatorial sena-torial position to make the race for congress. " The Millard county fair will open at Fillmore, September 22, and will continue three days. Looking to the ultimate oiaraniza-tion oiaraniza-tion of a vast drainage district that will take in the greater part of Cm-he valley in northern Cache couu'.v and will drain approximately mo not) a'V-of a'V-of waterlogged lands, rniiiiiii: ;ee . .; farmers are soliciting aid of fan :. -is of Salt Lake. Don B. Cotton of Vernal. I'inai1' county, and E. O. Leatl.et-wood. of Sail Lake, were nominated as the Republican Republi-can candidal es for congress from tl.i I First and Second districts, rospi ciive i !y. at the district conventions held r j August -'. |