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Show U ' B APPEALS IDE I TO LIQUOR CHEW I SENATEjS TOLD I McAdoo Aide Declares Pal- , mer's Campaign in Pennsyl-vania Pennsyl-vania Is Disgraceful PROBERS LOOK INTO H CALIFORNIA SITUATION Plumb Plan League Advocates 1 Come in For Quizzing by ;B Investigators j WASHINGTON. June 2. Charges jH I that the campaign for the nomination IH of Attorney-General Palmer as tJemo- i eratle candidate for tho presidency JH had been conducted In Pennsylvania with an open appeal to the distillery and brewery interests in the state wero made today before the. senate lnves- tigatlng committee by -Eugene C. Bon- jH : niwcll, of Philadelphia.''-- IH I Mr. fionnlwell. wKbdistrlbutcd stickers during the primary campaign seeking the nomination of W. G. Mo Aden, said that saloons and bonded ; warehouses in some parts of the state JH were now running "wl.do open" and that this was., proceeding Amder th I cy&k of department of justice and prohibition enforcement officers of the federal government appointed "with Mr. Palmer's vise." "Ghastly Degradation.' I The witness charged that the Pal-mer' Pal-mer' campaign in Pennsylvania had been "a ghastly and defacing degra- tM dutiou of law." He added that the campaign he conducted for Mr. Mc-Adoo Mc-Adoo had been entirely the work of ll himsolf and his colleagues and against the specific personal refusal of Mr. ' McAdoo to allow his name to be used. California's presidential primary ol?nion and tho expenditures made In it by supporters of Senator Hiram Johnson and Herbert Hoover were. given nearly a clear track at today's session of the senate committee in-vestigatin? in-vestigatin? tho subject. John II. Hossetp:-. who headed the first finance 1 comm'ttee organized for Senator Johnson and Manager Gregory. of th' Hoover organization, worp tho prlnci--"! witnesses summoned by the com- Phuu League Quizzed. nefnre going into the California 1 cornet, th committee examined Ed- t ' ward Keating, formor member of congress from Colorado, and now 1 m:inairer of the Plum plan league. Tie Gald the league, had not contributed "a dollar" to the campaigns of any ! of the candidates for the Republl-'car. Republl-'car. and Democratic presidential nom- inatlons. "It is taking no part in the cam- paign." he testified, "except a; it is ; distributing information through !ta 'weekly paper Labor. "I've mtthor gathered the ImproH-i ImproH-i sion that your paper is supporting McAdoo for the Democratic nominh-tion nominh-tion and Senator Johnson for the Ko- iH ' publican." said Chairman Kenyon. iH Mr. Keating replied that the paper 1 had probably ben more "crit'eal of the other candidates than these." He i added that the sixteen railroad labor I unions supporting the league had IB campaign committee of which h Is lB la member, co-opcrallng with the cam-, cam-, paign committee of tho Amerh in IH I Federation of Labor and that this jH j committee had takn no part in the H presidential campaign. H I To Give Information. Its duty will be to convey informa-tion informa-tion to the members of the organizx- IU ! tion. principally about senators ant congressmen." he said. H ' Mr. Keating said this committee H "might have sent out information as H to the attitude of presidential candl- , H dates, but that was all, up to date." , H "You've got a plan as to the future : H then?" asked Senator Reed. Demo- H crat, Missouri. "Why, yes," Mr. Keating said. "We , have reported tp our organisations (H that to do' future work in this cam- 1 9 paign we will require ? 10,000 and they ' H have undertaken to ask for a contrl- IjH bution of one cent from each of their members." Asked to explain the Plumb Plan 91 league and its methods, Mr. Keating, pH said thei;o wore L000 railroad unions each giving $10 a year and getting &l 10 copies of "Labor" and "some- KB thing more than 200.000 individuals' I each giving $1 a year and receiving l the paper. The surplus over the cost E of getting out the weokly went to propaganda, he said, supporting slc I field men. , Glenn J3. Plumb, he said, was on a I salary of 51,000 a month "about one- I half of his usual income," as a lawyer in prlvato practice, now abandoned. m |