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Show COX CONTINUES MONEY ATTACKS . Answers Will H. Hays' Denial By Lengthy Statement at St. Paul ST FALL. Minn.. Spt. 6. Governor, Cox Issued a statement last night re-' plying to the answer mad- today by 1 Will H. Ilnys. IJepuhllcan national! chairman, to the governor's rhnrf.o that Hays had "deliberately perpetrat-Sd perpetrat-Sd a falsehood under oath at Chicago."! 1. curding Republican contribution quotas. "My first charge when calling at-' ; tfntlon to the raising of a corruption ; fund was that a quota of $8.145.000 ! had been levied against fifty-one cities in 2 7 states." said the governor's state- ! ment. " This was denied In plain words! and the statement was mado both bv ' Mr. Hays and Mr. I'pham that thcn was no such list as tho one produced, which wns, as a matter of firct, an 1 official document from the national I Republican headquarters. ' Mr. Hays now admits that thcr were "tentative quotas fixed by the treasurer's office, all tentative and, rather as a goal. a!way high, of coura'-. for the particular stat" to drive tor. j and changing constantly." On hlsj cross-examination, Mr. Hays will be, . 1 ..i.Icd to explain the difference be-1 tween a 'quota' and a "tentative quota.' "My Interpretation would be the' tentative quota' was what Mr. Hays' wanted, and the 'quota' "as to repre-! I cent what he ultimately procured. If this docs not prove .ny charge that he! was attempting to rais $8,000,000 j from fifty-one cities, then I do not I know the meaning of words. "Now Mr. Hays says that the quotas ' are constantly changing. That Is true. , but l.sn't It also true that they were j changed upward rather than downward." down-ward." Citing statements li the Republican . treasurer's "official bulletin" reporting report-ing over-subscription of quotas. Gov-' crnor Cox's statement concluded: "If Mr. IIa;. is not getting till the money that he w.:nted. which would' again define the difference between the tentative, quota' and the real quota, perhaps the explanation Is j found In the fact that corporations' ! that were sending checks In viola- : ! tton 'of the laws have stopned It. "If Mr. llas can show where quotas were reduced, the opportunity will be afforded hi mundcr cross examination." examina-tion." I r. |