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Show if BERLIN ACCEPTS DISARMING PLAN ip S 3 fr CORRUPT USE OF I IBilE Campaign Contributors Seek Their Reward in Various Ways. He Tells Masons. I REDUCTION OF DUTY FREQUENT REQUESTS Former Secretary Declares Primaries Are a Disgrace to United States. NEW YORK. July 9 William G. McAdoo. open King at the dinner of the National League of .Masonic riubs here last night, declared "there is no menace so great to our nation as the corrupt use of money for campaign; purposes." I was secretary of the treasury for six vears and know the brum that la done by the misuse of tQOriAy in this Ii way," ho said. 'I am not talking abQUt Republicans aJono. but Demo-crata Demo-crata as well, for they all look alike to me when they are guilty of spend -d ' ing money In the manner indicated. ' Mr. McAdoo declared campaign coii-trlbutors coii-trlbutors would seek their reward In I various ways, one of Which was the i eduction of duty on imports. Hel pointed out that a fraction of a cent I I reduction would run Into big figures, i ACTION PRESSED-. Mr. McAdoo raid that "as an American Amer-ican citizen Seeking nothing.' there I were some things about the coming election he would like to refo to. The appointment of the senate commute, to investigate campaign expenditures, ho declared, was one of the "few Intelligent In-telligent thing 'lie nate yer did." "There Is one thing America can never stand i"t," he continued, 'and that is the purchase of the preside ncy of the United Suites." "In in) opinion the election law Should be changed," he said "The expenses for running tile national elections elec-tions should be paid out of the national na-tional treasure and if this vere done BSMSB tile cost would be Infinitely less It H would be reduced one-fifth . The HaSM i bney should be taken from IhK fd- WHjj . I treasury and the law should pre- MAm i'' uiiiiij how t.i" I . '.Id be spent. If such 0 step were; . i would to a great extent purl- ' ! i i.'Ui' laws. Ii Ul '!- CROOKEDN E6S. 'It would theu oe out of the qu?s-' qu?s-' i.. n tn );ias laws for crooked polltl- Oiups who have to be repaid In some! i ... to I the moneys they have ad-, I !d for some candidates cam- 1 i-ign." He urged a nation-wide presidential presiden-tial primary at which nominees would i. selected without the old of political politi-cal bosses. 'If a contributor to a national cam-, paign." Mr. McAdoo said, "were able' to obtain the remission of a fraction1 of one cent on the duty on a particular particu-lar article in which he was Interested, j he might receive In return for his campaign contribution ten times fifty times possibly even one hundred times the amount he had subscribed. prim nu s iuM.it i The presidential primaries In va- Ipalsn, he declared, were D dlsgr.ua to the nation lie proposed that nominations nomi-nations be made In the national conventions con-ventions by plurality vote. Instead of1 the two-thirdsvote of the Democrat! and the majoritj ote "i the Republicans. Republi-cans. To make thin succebuful, he asserted, as-serted, national politics must first be purified. The nominee must be the nominee Of tho people, not of the bosses.' Mr McAdoo said "The nominee of the future must not be the 6 lection of a ; -Ji bossed convention. The delegates I must really n present the people, BO RfRJll n J that the can'lldates can go forward I and moke a flghi for the people'" Ml ST ADOPT I EAGVVi. jyH II Mr. McAdoo sold the only method ij of preserving peac is th- adoption of U4I I a league of nutions. and, sooner or later, America will see It In Its proper IF light In order to stabilize conditions In the central powers, it Is neces3aiM', he asserted, to aid In curbing economic boycotts directed against thoso nations. na-tions. This would also ser e to pro-j mote domestic tranquility, "Let us all remember," he added, "we have a constitution and all America Amer-ica reveres it, even with the eighteenth amendment, We lov the American constitution and we a. . . pi u " 1 |