Show SLACK lA MAN MA V VOTES T ONTEO ON IN TR TEO R CHICAGO July 8 That That 85 per cent of dl f the negro vote in Georgia is outrageously outrageously out suppressed by bj brutal force was the tile testimony testimony mony many here today before the senate senate sen- sen ate committee In investigating cam- cam campaign campaign expenditures given by Henry Henry Henry Hen Hen- ry Lincoln Johnson negro Republican Republican Re Re- publican national committeeman Georgia Johnson called to explain th the disposition of ot 9 OO alleged t to have been sent him by Lowden Lowder campaign managers declared Ii It was a struggle for Cor a Republican to vote in in- Georgia In the tho last three or four tour years ears said Johnson there has been a areat great reat exodus of or negroes from Geor Georgia Ia Every ery time the whites burn a i victim many colored people leave the state for Cor more kindly shores he said They Just Disappear Thc They dont don't lynch men for be belonging belonging belonging be- be longing to the Republican party part do thc they asked Senator Kenyon Kenon Oh yes es they do Johnson re replied re- re plied Many a negro voting the Republican ticket has disappeared and no tidings s have o ever been beer heard of or him Referring to other causes of ol Johnson asserted the tho great great- trouble was that white men were allowed to attack negro girls without punishment Ho lIo cited al alleged alleged alleged al- al instances of white soldiers attacking ne negro ro girls during the war var and said the tho soldiers thou though h discovered wept went unpunished In Dublin Ga during the pre pre- convention campaign there was wild use of money the witness asserted I spent only 1 O Othere there he explained but the theother theother other fellows spent more than 2000 The other fellows he said were representatives U es of ot MaJ Gen Con Leonard Wood Asked If It Wood supporters bought delegates Johnson said he be didn't know but they passed out plenty of or Jack Wood Fund Johnson declared that backers of or General Wood spent around In Georgia while the Lowden Lowden Lowden Low- Low den supporters spent only Clark I L L. Crier GrIer former postmaster ter tel at Augusta Ga was the payoff payot man for tor the Wood Woori people ho bo said adding that Grier worked under direct orders from froni Frank Hitchcock former postmaster general general genral gen gen- eral ral in the Roosevelt cabinet Democrats paid from 5 to for tor votes In Georgia this year and generally spent pent more moro money than the Republicans Johnson told the committee He Ho declared he would need about to fo combat some DemocratIc Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic conditions there Johnsons Johnson's testimony concluded todo today's hearin and the committee commit commIt- tee will wl leave lewe tonight for Cor St. St Louis where an investigation atlon In Into Into into In- In to Democratic expenditures will wm willbe willbe be opened |