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Show JAMES HAZEN HYDE ON WITNESS STAND i r. ,S;(i) g 5, (g; 0 g, i NEW YORK. Nov. 14. James H. Hyde, testifying today before the insurance investigating com- (s ; mif.-e. said that the objects of ; the mysterious Sofco.OOO loan by the Mercantile Trust company to (; lh Equitable Life Assurance so- V c-l-ty was to buy off inconvenient Fiiits, to buy up stock of the K'luitable as it came into the L & market and to make political i contributions. Mr. Hyde said the onlv political contribution which he knew of was that of 125.000 io Cornelius N. Bliss, treasurer of the Republican National com- ( initte. In the last Presidential campaign. This contribution was solicited by Mr. Frlck, said Mr. Hyde. Mr. Hyde told of the advances in his own salary from d) nn.000 a vear to JIOO.OOO.1 & |