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Show WITNESS SMS I OHIO FIGURES I PR DVEGORREGT I Several Witnesses Examined ' by Slush Fund Probers in Chicago CHICAGO. Sept. 8 Governor Cox's i ita" figures on the amount the Re- H publicans sought to raise In Cleveland. H ii, werS substantiated anrl nn admt-- sic-n made that the national commit- H tee had sought to raise more than Georgia's 116,000 quota when the sen- H ate committee Inv estlgallnc campaign -: penditUres resumed lis hearing to- H Dudley B. Blossom, one of the lend- H en in the Cleveland fund-raising drive, H testified the Cuyahoga county quota u.as fixed at $400,000 although the testimony of Fred Cpham, Rcpub- I lean national treasurer, fixed the goal H fpi the entire state of Ohio as $400,- ooii for the national committee and I $250,000 for state purposes. H GEORGIAN lI sTIKIES. ! C W McClure, of Atlanta, Ga., said j Mr. Cpham sent C. K. Taylor, a paid H field worker, lo him last month with H la letter staling that Mr. Taylor was 'deb-gated to raise more money In that stale. Mr. McClure quoted Dr. J. C. jStockbridge, of Atlanta, who assisted H him. as saying Mr Taylor had told Dr. Stot kbrldge that he wanted to raise H 126,000 in Atlanta alone. Mi Blossom said they actually rals- H $7 4,000 in '"uyahoga county and H i Mr McClure said his committee ob- H itaincd pledges of about $11,000 In tho of Georgia, of which $6,015.76 I had been paid. FORMER DEMOCRAT Dr. Stockbrldge, It was brought out, H was a Democral up until last year H and his son Is now directing the cam-Ipaign cam-Ipaign of Governor L'orsey, Democrat, foi senator. gSenalor Kenyon attempt-d attempt-d to bring out that records and In- I formation from SfcClure's office had found their way Into Dorsey's hands H i v ia the Stockhridgt's. father and son. McClure said he muI, raising funds alter ihe convention because he dlda't 'think It was much use to proceed. I "There has been a report that you i diss Ltltfled with the convention.'" asked Senator Kenyon. t OLORJ i I OMMJTTEEM N. Dissatisfied, yes." Mr. McClure id "Dissatisfied when they start"--1 SfUdiPB money down there which was mm 1 1 he cause of our getting a colored niv-' niv-' tlonal committeeman." Senator Kenyon read from a Hat of Georgia subscriptions offered by the witness and asked If he expected to collect $1000 subscribed by Roscoe l i. kett. He thought so, the witnsss I answered. H ' How much did you subscribe?" j "One thousund dollars" Have you paid It?" Senator Reed then took the Witness through form lo 1, the campaign plan. which Republican witnesses have aald ; was never issued, and which Mr. Bios-som Bios-som said he never had seen. At al-j al-j most every step In organization de-lecribad de-lecribad in the plan. Mr. Blossom nod-ded nod-ded or expressed assent. He said an I executive committee was formed as described In the plan and remembered of its dozen or so members. Micha-.l Gallagher, coal operator, as chairman I and John Slier win and J Rs Nu't. I bankers, and C. A Otis, broker, as members H CREAM" LIST (-IVIA I The "prospect list of 3.000 names." BMn which form lol recommended was identified is existing in Cleveland as vvas the cream list" assigned to th - set Utlve committee. Mr. Blossom said i he had been told by Mr. I'rotzmun I thai the executlvi committee had ob- tamed about $28,000 In pledges from this list. Senator Reed brought out that this conversation with Mr. Protz-' Protz-' man look place after the committee's subpoena Itrsj served on Mr. Blossom. Mr. Mooro was not in the room when the commltiee was called to or-several or-several other witnesses were summoned. The first was H G. Gar i tt of W inch, ster Ky., chairman pi 1 that state's Republican ways ami ll. Ml s fox l II Kt.l He said that Henry Owen of the I staff of Fred W. L'pham, treasurer lot the national Republican committee, asked Inm to take the post and raise 125,000 tor the national committee. Mi. Garrett said the fund was prac- all raised by June t since which dale be had made no effort to gel additional subscription mij nc himself set jij.ooo as Louisville's quota Of in. fun-1 and denied the Cox - . barge thai a levy of $50,000 had been made on Republicans of that city. Senator Spencer and Mr Blossom endorsed the Cleveland method of raising campaign funds as a substan-jtlal substan-jtlal reproduction of the drives on be-half be-half of the Red Cross and Liberty loans. Alter the witness had repeated mphatlcally that he had never seen form 101, the Missouri senator said: 'Hi ihat document Is a statement I which mj distinguished colleague ! omitted, lo ihe effect that contribu-lions contribu-lions of from 15,00,0 to $10,000 should be sought. Was there any such diicc-Hon diicc-Hon Issued in Cleveland?" : Not to my knowledge," replied Mr. -M Blossom. Mr. Blossom told Senator Kenyon ! be could not say whether the Repub- . Hi national committee had anything i do with fixing a quota for Cleveland -and Siuator Spencer learned that so far as the Witness knew the i lea came from Mi Woodford. no BSSSSSl |