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Show la G fr ? O & ? A A II 1 BELIEVE COX CAN PROVE HIS CHARGES I GEORGE WHITE SAYS I Chairman Unable to Substantiate Accusations Made by I Democratic Nominee; Cox Tells Senator Reed He Will Provide Matter for Board I to Work on CHICAGO, Sept. 1. (ier.rge White, chairman of tin Democratic national committee, said on the stand today before the senate committee Investi- gating campaign expenditures, that he : bad no evidence to sustain any one of I the charges made by fJovernor c ox. his party's presidential nominee, as to Ite-prbllcan Ite-prbllcan campaign funds and quotas 1 or the a'.legril desire of contrlhutors i "to have back of them In industrial ! Centers the bayonets of their puppets i I'll Office I He told Chairman K"nyon that he believed the charges were true because Q had confidence in Governor i ox I .,, I. , I nt Jlimilltiai Ihr n, I i Am- tad With the nominee and brought QOlhlng from him to aid the conimtttee j ii. sifting them. is Itoss-"I Itoss-"I talked with Governor Cox last Sunday for a few minutes,'" said -Mr j White. "1 asked him: "Are you sure 'ot your ground?.' He sold he b ta !s,rid 1 told him: 'You are the boas! nd on run it.' " senator KSnyon asked if Mr. W hite .'.i n ' consider it the "duty of the liicii who nave thla evidence, If It ex-, ;.xts, to give It to us wnethei they ar .presidential candidates or not." and when the witness did not reply, the chairman said be realized the query might be cmbairassing and he would not press it out of respect to Mr. Whites relations frith Governoi ''ox. TELEGRAMS PROM COX. I Senator Konyon read to the witness I telegrams liom Governor Cox to the Committee and to Sena tor Iteed. a member, 'promising to f i uish the tn-yestigators tn-yestigators with Inxormation The lat-ittr lat-ittr message told the Missouri senator I I hat the candidate w ould get some iii;iiieri iii.u um . ctwwm- I'ressed by his questioners. Mr I White said be WLiS w illing to abide by i i the judgment nr Governoi; Cox as to, when the material should be furnished 'tbe committee. Rut you have a Bpealclng trip ar-' (ranged for GoVernor L'ox next week 'una you would not wish us to Interfere with that, argued Senator Kenyon. "in fact wo have no desire to inter-i inter-i fere with it. ' "The committee has Jurisdiction lover its own arfairs." sj.id .Mr. White. V. H i : M li KM s ROOK Mr white, under questioning by; Senators Spencer and Kenyon, 'aid the only example of s "slnistei influence" influ-ence" backing the Republican party! which be knew of personally, was the Kepubljcou year book published by! ; William Harries ' Discussion of the Barnes hook dls-Iclcsed dls-Iclcsed that photographic copies of pledges of "moral and tlnantal" sup- j oit to the booK. signed by prominent eastern men, Including the Rockefellers, Rockefel-lers, had disappeared from the records ! m winch they were introduced Monday. Mon-day. A heated ..lash between Senator ll'TU rtii'i mimwi .v...vr,.-. I when Senator Reed insisted on an in-jveatigation in-jveatigation of the disappearance of the pa pel s "Uo you understand that these I pledges related only to the support for iht book :" Senator Kenyon asked Mj White. REPfjBIjICAN R )! t. M . 'Thx could fieau- anything," the laltness answered i "Do you think t hey relate to support ifor the Republican campaign?" "Yes. througn Republican propa-"g;inda." propa-"g;inda." "Lo you think the Barnes book is ia nion sinister influence than the clr- oulatlon through country newspapers Id: propaganda favoring the tsorgue of j nations, such as this stor'. 'Uncle Sam I of Freedom Rldge," and having it paid Ifoi by a particular political part) an .having the man who reads It not know that it Is political propaganda .' Whli h ; is the more sinister .-" Senator Kenyon , asked. 1 "I don't apologize for wanting to circulate that story," .Mr. White re-I re-I Jollied. "The editor of the paper Is 1 1 sponsible if he uses u He ian"i paid to print It." PROFESSOR FIRED. Mr White said he had not seen the l 1 1 ties book. I Senator Kenyon then questioned the 'witness about salaries paid speakers or Other campaign workers and inquired l.-1 ticularly about Professor John 0 ! Hail, head of the Scandinavian bureau f the Democratic national committet jwho was shown in letters read by Sen-lator Sen-lator New yesterday as negotiating with I both th? Democratic and Republican I committees for his services. The inqtiir developed that .Mr I White had dismissed Professor Ball last night following dlsclosur of the j Xi w letters. f, How about this professor'.'" Semitic! Semi-tic! Kenyon asked. I "i was interested and investigated," Mr White said. "lie seems to be bl-pa bl-pa i tlaam" ' Yes. be seems to be.' Senator Ken-lon Ken-lon replied. "lb made a statement before a j w itness that he was offered $5(000 by 1 1 he Republicans,' Mr White retort-led, retort-led, "but he suid he preferred to work Ifor tin 1 lemocats The joke is on us. I though t.u paying him $100 a week." "Did ho offer hts services to the 'Farmer-Labor party " Senator Ken-! Ken-! von asked. "I think ho will next. Ho is not working for us today." COX 'SPECIAL train. Senator Kenyon brought out that Governor Cox wan to have a special tralp Oh bin vvrsti rn trip, which will last a month, and asked if that train wouldn't cost the entire $100 000 appropriated ap-propriated for the speaking campaign l.Mi White s,u.J he did not know what the cost would be. Senator Edge asked If Bin White would return any pai l of his campaign collections If the fund exceeded tho $2,000,000 whb h h" had estimated ivould b necessary. I "You were here when 1 said appiox- Innately $2. 000, 000." Mr.' White replied. t'and i 'iiiaiified that by saying I would want to talk to men who know- WWW more about the mutter than I do be"- tore tilting Q definite amount" III I.I . OX STAND, j CHICAGO Sept. 1. George Whll i halrman of the Democratic mWM committee, today told the mm icnatot i committet investigating H campaign expenditures that he H thought $2,000,006 fund for na mmWM tlonal committee purpose would pro-vlde pro-vlde for an adequate presidential Wmm e impalt'n this year I 'I be Democratic leader wag caroful m n Impress upon the committee thai MmmM this estimajte was a personal opini "l have not yel appointed our cam- palgn fund i on.niitiee," he explained. MWm "I intended to do I. this weeK. but was delayed bv the call to appear ;-t this benrliig. Consequently ray estl- mwM mat? is made as an individual. mWM Nt lit DGET YI-.T. I The Demo, rate orKanijitlon has WXwM net yet mane up a budget, Mr. Whit. WM said, but he added that the various mWM butcaua were pressing lum to appoint mw ih- campaign committer bo that they MmWM mizht be Informed r.f their allotment. MmWt Senator Spencer, who presided at mM the opening of today:: se-sion in the mW ibeenee of Senator Kenyon. brought. lout that national headquarters of the jf committee are in the Grand Central l'alace in Xew York with branches Wmm in Chicago. San Francisco and Wash- Mr. White snid the committee had mWM also reserved six rooms in the Mur- mwm rav hill hotel in New York in which mwM he had planned to install a "foreign voters league." He said the roomi mwM i were not yet occupied. StAnnf-nr Veu- l.o.a nf .Ua n....wii mm can speakers' bureau, testified yes- ll terdav that I'rofessor John "i Hall, I of Willl.timt ; university, Salem, Ore.. WM who had offer I to work for Xhs mWM rtepubliean csmpnrign provided Hi ( managers met or raised a Democratic IH offer of 17,500 for Ins services, was in the Murray Hdl hotel ouarters as mWM head of the Scandinavia:; bureau. IH W III I F I'MM iiRMED. .Mr. White told the committee h lmWM knew nothing personally about evl-dence evl-dence showing an attempt by the RS- I P lb ' ti part) corrupt the dec- H 'orate." and said the only place he knew where such evidence could be obi lined would be from Governor Cox. "Do you know of any sinister fl- iH i- :. i . 1 1 or Industrial interests which IH are seeking to make profiteering pos-r pos-r me by contributing money or assist- to the Republican national com-mlltee com-mlltee or the Republican party," Sen-ato;- Spencer asked, "reading from accounts Of Governor Cox's pittobnrh speech. "I have, of ooiir'". rend the gov-ernor's gov-ernor's speech at Pittsburgh." Mr. White renlled. "and from long asso- elation wilb him believe he can prove bbbbbbj anything he charges." "Do yi.n knuvv of nil'lions being riven to the campaign fund of the republican party with sinister in- "So far .is what I myself know, no. J nothing. I am not prepared to say tl-.:t T know It myself." MwM ' And you don't know what evl-der.ee evl-der.ee the governor has, if he has 'Thnt li so m m; QUESTIOXS Senator Spencer questioned Mr. White alien the relation of W. D. mwm JamiesQii to tlie Democratic national committee and the truth of ncwapapej reports, that Mr. Jamicsort; then lein-ncratlc lein-ncratlc financial director, had stated i isl year that 110.000 000 would be needed for the Democratic campaign mm that voi r Judgement"" the sen- divert 1 1 Mr. Spencer asked the Democratic .--airman to produce a list of all em-ployea em-ployea of the Democratic national cunmlttee and their salasies, which he uromlsed to do N speakers be-!ng be-!ng paid salaries, the witness said, and P.- do. not plan to pay nriy He added that he had authorised the ex,-pendlture ex,-pendlture of llOO.O'OO by the. speakers "In H true." Senator Spencer aked. that you have stated vou will not rjl.ice any limit on Campaign contrl-bytlons?" contrl-bytlons?" "1 ill. I -:-i' th.it There N no limit MM on i-0 within the discretion of H the treasurer, and myscif after con-sldering con-sldering both the size and the source." on IBH |