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Show H ; SENATOR STEPHENSON, CHAIRMAN OF PROBE ' COMMITTEE AND LA FOLLETTE, WHO FORCED ( INVESTIGATION OF BRIBERY CHARGES ,' MM ' ''k?;. " -ffHES WR'1 Zl no8s stan'1 before tho 'senatorial Tn- H' p 1, '4y'Jte t$$$mpm' z&rx' $, vestlgatiug committee, to auswer H i f - ' '7,.vijjfc2& " WmSmiwrJ ri S charges that conupt use of money Bt ,k ' ''-ffiZfimK ffisGSB&rf1 9 11 Jr had contributed to his election, United 1! . 'lhi& yWgSm r-Tl statea Senator Isaac Stephenson to- H' i V ' U'CaSBBmSL. k.-VJj day testified that althougl) he spent H '. j r-USSBKBr' : 5107,793 in his campaign, ho had littlo H i B "SFWATOf HEXBURM BKh 1 came up, I could not lay awake nights H ( flumi m nmnu i i i n u i , ij '. i . agors and told thein to carry ou a "" - vigorous campaign and do everything to elect me, except that they must keep within the. law. I cautioned them not to violate tho law in any particular. So far as I know, they obeyed me." Citing large expenditures for advertising adver-tising buttons, and traveling expenses, tho witness testified he frequently asked where so much money was going but on being told it was a close fight, and the state had to be systematically canvassed, he questioned the matter no further. Mr. Stephenson said he had given money for campaign purposes pur-poses to men who afterwards became candidates for the legislature and some of them were elected, but ho was not aware of their candidacy when he gave them money "I paid $250 to H L. Bancroft for getting names of persons to whom to send campaign llleiatuio," he said. He afterwards ran for the legislature and was elected, but I did not know of his candidacy. I took little interest in-terest in the primaries, leaving it to my managers. "I understood money was paid to M C. Wellenagaard, who afterwards was elected to the assembly, but this money was paid him without my knowledge My managers wore E. A. Edmonds of Appleton, J. II Puellchcr of Milwaukee and J. A. VanCleve of Marinette." "Tho record shows that up you paid to your managers' In one day $10;Q00 and. a short . time afterwards 'gave them 415,000 more," said Senator W B, Hgyburn, chairman. "Didn't you ever ask them what they were "doing with all that morfpy?" "Only in a general way" -"Did you pay three Democratic members, or anyone, for absenting themselves fromHhe legislature March 4, 1900, so that .you could have a majority- "No, I"never knew of any member having absented hmself except as I read it In the newspapers." E A. Edmonds testified he knew of no money having Illegally been used In Stephenson's election Tho bill for advertising, he said, amounted to 10,000. |