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Show I y Funds Of Johnson And Hoover Scanned I I Johnson Treasurer Says Hoover Hoov-er Men Spent More Than - w SENATOR ENCOUNTERS DEFICIT, HE DECLARES I Names of Supporters of Cash ?! Candidate Furnished by Senate Witness WASHINGTON, May 20. Approximately Approx-imately $200,000 has been raised for ; the national campaign of Senator Johnson, oC California, for the Republican Repub-lican presidential nomination, Alexander Alex-ander McCabe, treasurer of tho Johnson John-son California organization, testified i today before the senate committee ,'; investigating pro-convention campaign ;. financing. i I Replying to questions of Senator Spencer, Republican, Missouri, Mr. McCabe said tills total did not Jn- ' elude local sums raised over the coun- : try, but declared that all other sums ;J would not aggregate more than a few ' thousand dollars. Mr. McCabe said he did not havo I, tho records with him, but offered to i ji send for them. His estimate was '! based, he said, "on tho last time I j looked over th'o books." t , Hoover SjKMit More. JS - S r-i- $Ca.bj,-;d jjclarcdi-that Hpoyer" v "Bpporlers In California spent '"'eight on nine times as much as(we at tho lowest 'estimate $300, 000."' The witness; testified that $25,000 of the total of "the California fund was sent to the Johnson national ' headquarters in Now York. Ho add- ed lie had bc.cn In .touch with the tfaite organization "up to about May , 4, when the California primary , closed." ' "Money was' still coming in," Mr. iMcCabe testified. "But we were in constant difficulties meeting tho campaign of oilr opponents. Mr. Hoover ran opposing Johnson there. Poosibly $20,000 haij been" collected Blnce to meet the deficit. I Names of Contributors, j "Contributors named by the wit- ios3 included Henry FHeshacker $u,- OtiO; "Will. Crooker $4,000, and John L ' II. Rossetcr, $2,500. I "The money was gathered in a I state wide solicitation," Mr. McCabe I continued. Asked as to contributions by state officers, ho said, "Charles H E. Miller, a prison . commissioner, P gave $J,000." Iv Will C. Wood, state educational ifflfij officer, "contributed active support to Ksl HooVer," the witness declared, Ujjl ' Ddding that out of five railroad corn- In mlssloners, threo gave to Johnson sKjl funds and tho others "supported Mr. SB Hoover." jSI Rebents of the state university also fm were divided ,in allegiance, Mr. Mc- l Cabo said,' but one or two "gave pos- yi Eibly $250 or $500 to tho Johnson 1 campaign,; fl "A large number of state officials II did contribute - to us," said Mr. 'Mc- tl Cabe, "but they were not men of means and they did not give largo amounts." Asked as to the assertion that "nine millionaires nre on the Johnson ticket of delegates from California, the vlt-hess vlt-hess named Mr. Crocker, Mr. Flelsh-acker,. Flelsh-acker,. George I. Cochran, and M. H. f ' De Young. Mr. De Young, ho said, gave I i nothing. How Many Millionaires? ' "How many millionaires oh the I Hoover delegation?" asked Chairman B Kenyon. I "I've never counted," was the reply, jtll I . pS As to expenditures of California, jap I Mr. McCabe said $2000 had been sent 0L l F, Mitchell, in Indiana, probably TIT $5000 to Montana; $4000 lo Michigan; lj $3500 to South Dakota; $2000 to North Hj Dakota and $5500 to Oregon. H James A. Johnson, of California, Mr. H McCabe said, had authorized some of H Uio expenditures, which made him un- H certain as to exact amounts to Minne- Hj ota ?J500 was bent on, ho said, j ' "Then out of California, De Young M sent more than $500,000 to other 1 Slates?" Chairman Ivonyon questioned. H "I'm sure thnt's ?tibout right," Mr. j McCabe said.- . 1 "You say this money was raised in j email amounts?" H "Yes, by public appealB Tor funds.". H "Somewhere around $50,000 was H spent in California thqn. How was H that spent? DJd you-have Chautauqua Hj Pcrur Big Meetings. B "In four big meetings we paid ex- H Peases. of speakers." Mr. McCabe rc- H plied, -adding that printing and circu- H lation b printed matter was the larg- B est,item with little or no money spent H on newspaper advertising, k-"' "Ekl you see any. evidence of ex- H pendlturos by your opponents In tho H Hoover campaign?" Senator Kenyon H "That was our great anxiety," Mr. McCabe declared. "Wo didn't know how effective it was going to be. They circularized the whole state once or twice; they had many workers, women as well as men employed in house to house canvasses. "They were taking whole pages of newspaper advertising and we couldn't toll what wo had to do to counteract it. Great Many Workers. "They had a tremendous number of workers out of Los Angeles. Wo had to rely largely on volunteer workers. They had the money and could get them." "Woll, there were some people induced in-duced to work by their respect and admiration for Mr. Hoover, weren't thcro?" Senator Kenyon asked. "Yes, of course, but there wore great numbers employed." returned tho witness, wit-ness, who said that in Los Angeles alone Hoover's men had 1G00 paid Before calling Mr. McCabe tho committee com-mittee questioned Frederick William Wile, a correspondent of tho Philadelphia Philadel-phia Public Ledger, as to- an article written by him that $S6,000 had beon raised in California for Senator John-sou's John-sou's primary there Mr. Wilo testified testi-fied I hat J. H. Rochester, formerly of I he shipping board, and William II. Crocker, of California, had been instrumental instru-mental in raising the alleged fund. Much Money Spent. Tho witness said ho had "heard a good deal to the effect that all can-j dldates in California wero spending a good deal of money." "Why didn't you write up the Hoover business too?" asked Senator Reed. Democrat, Missouri. Wile said that the Philadelphia Public Pub-lic Ledger had "written that up exhaustively ex-haustively when Hoover men were before be-fore this committee." Mr. Wile asserted that estimates 'of expenses for-Hoover in Californin had not reached anything like the estimates esti-mates of expenditures for Johnson. "I was told," ho snid, "that tho ceiN ing was the limit for the Johnson campaign." Paper for Hoover. Replying to further questions, the witness said his "paper is supporting Hoover." Evan S. Harris, of Albanv, N T former Democratic state chairman! was questioned ns to a campaign for William G: McAdoo. He said ho did not know whether thcro was a McAdoo Mc-Adoo campaign or a McAdoo fund. "Did Daniel' C. Itoper ever ask you about tho McAdoo candidacy?" Senator Sena-tor Edge, Republican, New Jersey, asked. "I'll say no and then oxplain," Mr. HarrlB replied. "Air. Roper asked me if I thought ho should give up his business in case Mr. McAdoo became a candidate. I advised him not to." "You know Mr. McAdoo is a candidate?" candi-date?" Senator Edge naked. "1 know ho said he wasn't," Harris returned. |
