New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 30, 1924, Page 12

Vel b I GRUNDY CALLED | BEFORE NEETING (Continued from First Page) Caraway. “Nowsl have a telegram from Mr. Morris saying that he de- clines to come unless the democra- tie and independent times are here at the same time, | “Of course I am not willing to consent to any such demand, but T tealize he is perfectly within his rights in asking that the others be called also.” Later Chairman Caraway tupted the hes “Porhaps my remark Mr. Morris better not stand in fair- ness o inter wring to say conecerning chairman did not Indicate any fur- but turned ntion to e contemplated tier steps in the matter, the committee’s att collec- ther states, w. y Baker of Philadelphia, chairman of the republican ser torfal committea in Pennsylvania, testified he in contri- on hand wd received hutions $1 226,21, A to D received ing fur mittee from who has charge of colle s in eastern Pennsylvania, 100 from the national com- Other Funds Fxplained William J. Tully of the legal de- partment of the Metropolitan Life Insurance company, named in previ- ous testimony as head of the special committes collecting republican funds among life insurance men, testified that employes and officials | of the Metropolitan company gave $1.660, of which contributed $300; and that $885 was contributed | among the personnel of the New York Life Tnsurance company. Hendon Chubb, also an imsurance man of New York, said he raised $522.50 from Marine Insurance men for the republican fund. | George Murnane of the New York | Trust company, who said he was chairman of the bankers' group of the Greater New York republican campaign fund committee, testified e himsel had recefved $3,090, and that the bankers’ group as a whole | ralsed $77,000. He $10 was the largest amount con-| tributed to him by a heard chair- man of a National bank in New York, although he had received $1,- 000 from the chairman of the hoard of the Bankers' Trust, and $300 from ¢he president of the same bank. Joseph Y. Crupper, republican state chairman oft Virginia, was anestioned regarding the check of $300 which he sent to D. A. Tergu- | son, the negro treasurer of the| “Lily Black” section of the repub- lican party in Virginia. “What was your purpose in send- | ing the check?” Caraway asked. “My purpose was to get the col- ored vote. 1 heard it was slipping away from us to Davis and Bryan." Crupper said he had received 10,000 from the republican national | committee for use in Virginia. He said he was using the fund in con-| gressional contests, and had spent §5,300. He had been told, h that “a little more than had heen collected in : E. C. Stokes, chairman of the re- puplican state committee of New ing | New representa- | declared nmzl‘ | bring. | Frank P. Wals By Jersey estimated that $100,000 would be used in the campalgn in Jersey, He said he took no part in raising funds, but that “col- lectors” of the republican national ommittee had raised $120,000 in (B dtaLe] The national committee, has donated §7 he said, district representatives, He cumpaign contributions were ing in very slowly, Business Alds - Caraway turned “eom- Chairman the !committee's attention to coples of ad- vertisements appearing in the Daily News of New York, signed by busi- s8 enterpriscs, One of the advertisements carried a notice of a moeting to be held in Metropolitan Opera House when retary Hughes was to address a mecting under the auspices of the Now York Business Men's Republi- can association. Tt ed with: “Coolidge and Dawes." ptown Business association." pace donated by: The American Woolen company, the James J. Re- 7 Manufacturing company, Wil- m Whitman company, Inc.; Wat- crhouse Worsted company; Parker, Wilder & Co.; the Schwartz Waelder company and the United Worsted cogporation.” William Skinner, who already had testified, agreed with Walsh's asser- fon that all of the concerns were protected corporations,” but dis- agreed with his charge that the do- nation violated the federal statute prohibiting campaign contributions by corporations. Call More Witnesses At the close of the forenoon es- sion, W. L. Bourland, republican na- tional committee, requested that subpoenas be issned for Lee Shubert, New York theatrical producer; Wil- liam Burch, who was described at vesterday's hearing as being a rep- resentative of the McCutcheon-Ger- son syndicate and Cornelius Wood, vice-president of the American Woolen sompany. He asked that Ben McCutcheon of the syndicate appear before the Chicago section of the committee, To Disprove Charges The attorney said testimony would be produced regarding the charge {that a theatrical syndicate had of- fered to sell theatrical influence in adding that political programs, Shubert had declared the charge was | terested and he thought it would be | collected?” askeq Senator Borah. “entirely false.”" Wood will be asked to testify re- garding the statement of Henry L. Ramm of Lawrence, Mass,, that men had heen dismissed by the Amert-! can Woolen company for support- ing Ta Follette, Bourland added. Other subpoenas issued at the re- quest of the republican counsel were: Charles A. Stoneham, William MacCormac of New York, who were requested to hring all correspondence relating to the $80,000 fund arising out of the Dempsey-Firpo fight. Jesse Joneg and Norman H. Da- vis, both identified with the demo- cratic committee, were requested to all correspondence or docu ments relating to underwriting any deficit ofthe democratic national committee, Dwight P. Morrow of New York aed at the request of , counsel for La Fol- was subpo lette. Chicago Hearing Chicaga, Oct. Through L. F. Sheppard, president of the order of The Assol Good If a fountain pen or a furniture polish is worthy, sooner or later you are likely to hear of it. Even if you never read the advertisements, the good news may trickle down to you in time. Meanwhile, perhaps, you have tried and discarded many an unworthy polish or pen. Yet if you read the advertisements, you can know of the best—be enjoy- it from the first. Advertisements keep you alert to the new—and to the hest. Advertised goods cost less, because they sell in greater quantities. Moreover the advertisements tell you of wares that justify your faith. You can buy them, confident of satisfaction. They can’t be widely advertised unless they please. Don’t overlook the good news in these advertising columns each day. 2 400 to his commit- | |toe which he had distributed to the said | 'NEW BRITATN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 90, 1924, ' rallway conductors, cnunl;l for the republican national committee, sotght to show today before the Chicago section of the senate cam- palgn committee that the La Fol- lette campalgn was subsidized by the rallroad brotherhoods, Sheppard objected to being ques- tioned regardig letters ho had writ. ten to members of his order, includ- Ing one to Fred Stewart of Oakland, Cal, saying that he wanted protec- tion from going into matterd that organization, Kirkland insisted on having the correspondence, saying he thought the committee should be interested in getting at the facts and that he thought it would be interested. He added hat he wanted to show that the railway labor organizations were interested in future legislation as to government ownership of the rail- roads and “laws affecting the use of the injunction in labor disputes.” Kirkland Inquired into the meth- | 0ds of the support of Labor, a Wash- ington publication, Sheppard said the members paid $1 a year for the | paper by their own vote. | One witness sald there was no “coercion” of memhers to support | |any political candidate or to con- |tribute to a campalgn fund. | Xirkiand started to question the [ witness about a letter written to | Fred Stewart of Oakland, Cal, a | momber of the conductors’ order. | Sheppard objected to the Inquiry |and asked “protection from this ‘H\I“"\"Nm from matters that may he the cause of controversy in our or-| | ganization in which T will have to sit as the court of last resort.” Counsel could not produce criginal letter and Chairman Borah ruled that the letter would have to | ve produced. | “Have you coerced any member of | the organization to support any can- | didate or to eontribute to campaign funds?” asked Chairman Borah, | Vote As They Choose | “On the contrary we have told |them they could support whom they chose,” Sheppard said. “The or- | ganization has endorsed Senator La Follette.” Kirkland asked that Sheppard be required to produce the letter to Stewart and to a “Mr. Drew.” He | said the committee ought to be in- in evidence that might show that the |Ta Tollette campaign 1s “subsidized by the railroad brotherhoods.” | Yawyers Clash | gamuel Untermyer, New York lawyer, and a supporter of John W. Davis, objected and he and Kirk- and had several sharp tilts with a [vesult that Chairman Borah sald J.[that the committee might have to| and Willlam Muldoon | conduct the inquiry exclusively and | {independent of counsel. Senator | Borah took ever the examination. | sheppard said his organization | had been active in politics for some time, supporting candidates for con- gress and state offices. He stated that it had been behind a republican candidate for senator in Nebraska and a democratic candidate for gov- lernor In that state. In the present campaign, the order of conductors has field workers out. | 1t has reported a total of $318 and |in addition $302 has been contribut- |ed by local organizations. 1 Senator Borah pressed for the ap- proximate total conributions of the | seventeen labor organizations to the national campaign. | Bheppard said he had about thirty news To buy advertised goods is to travel with the leaders VER 11,000 HER DISTRIBUTED DAILY THE HERALD H! The Herald is the Only New Britain Newspaper With An Audited Circulation might{cause controversies within his | the | DS BY FAR THE LARGEST CIRCULA- TION OF ANY PAPER PUBLISHED IN NEW BRITAIN full time fléld workers throughout the country campaigning for the in- dependent candidates, Salaries and expenses of this group were paid from’ the “protective fund,” of the raliroad organizations to which each member contributed $2 afinually. In certain localities, Sheppard con- tinued, local organizations were con- | ducting systematic work in behalf of | certain congressional candidates, but any funds expended In such work | was entirely outside his jurisdiction, | h entered on the national ticket. “Can you fell us how much you | have spent in this campalgn?” asked [Senator Shipstead, farmer-labor, Mipnesota. “Our budget calls for $35,000 for presidentlal, congressional and | state,” Sheppard sald, “Your campaign is a non-parti- san campalgn?" Shipstead persisted. | “Absolutely,”” Sheppard sald, add- | ing that the organization had en- | dorsed both democrats and republi- cans for the house and senate, [ “We endorsed Senator La Fol- | lette," he added, “because we could not get satisfaction from the two old parties.” ; ‘What purported to be a copy of the Sheppard letter to Stewart' was | produced Dby Kirkland., Sheppard | wolld not say it was a true copy, | and Senator Borah msked him to submit his correspondence in execu-)| tive sesslon so that the committee could decided whether it is germaine to the inquiry. Sheppard said he would on advice of counsel and if allowed to explain, J “It is not the intention of the | committee to go into the private in- | ternal affairs of your organization,” Benator Borah said. “What the | committee does want to get at is any | legitimate matters pertaining to the | campaign.” | Kirkland asked the witness it on | Reptember 26 he wrote a letter to | H. D, Drew at Lawrence, Masa. | “I @ecline to answer,” Sheppard ! said. | After Sheppard agreed to produce | the Stewart and Drew letters tomor- | row it he could find them in his files here, the committee turned back to | republican collections and expendi- i!urP’. Frank L. Smith, republican state chairman for Illinols, was the | witneas. | “How much has your organization $70,000 Collected. “Approximately $70,000.” | “Was that turned over to the re- | publican national committee?"” “We have turned nothing over to the republican national committee.” “Has the fund been used for the state campaign only?"” | “Sfate and natlonal.” It developed that $40,000 of the 70,000 had been given by the na- | tional committee, Smith could not give the names of contributors to the $30,000 state fund other than that the candidates for office. He, sald here was a treasurer | but he is “not active.” | “How has this money been ex- pended?” ! ¢In the'usual way; for spcakers and the like.” More than $20,000 has heen spent—publicity, literature and ad- vertising, Smith said. Questioned by Untermyer, the wit- ness said the state committee kept | no booka. | *So there’s no way of telling how much money has heen received or | expended 1in detail?”" Untermyer | asked. “Yes," Smith sald, a bank account was kept, “Do you knqw of any ‘slush fund' to be used in Niiols?" asked Kirk- land, “I do not," “Were there any lurge contribu- ton ch as $25,0001" “No." L. J. Peter, a publisher of man language newapapers in Oma- ha and other Nebraska cities, sald he had entered into “an arrange- ment” with the republican national committee to distribute his papers among the German speaking popu- lation in Towa, Minnesota and South Dakota, where there are no repubs lican German language papers. Peter said he was to send out 200,- 000 coples and had received $10,000 from the republican committeq and that $2,600 more is due, “Who furnished the material for these publications?” asked Senator Borah, “Most of it furnished; th4 re- publican nationa] committee fur- nished some,” Untermyer wanted to know about the circulationof Peter's paper. “I refusc to answer,” Peter sald. “1 stand on my rights as a citizen and a business man," Untermyer said the witness had “no such righ but Chairman Porah said he wasn't certain the committee could force the witness to answer. “We don't want to get into a po- sition we can't get out of," Borah safd, The guestion was not pressed when it was explained that the rec- ords were reported Lo the postofiice department. Chairman Borah remarked .that there seemed to be a reluctance on the part of many witnesses to give all the facts. Untermyer brought out that a pa- printed at Peter’s Omaha shop, was a La Vollette supporter until Peter visited Roy West, sccretary of the republican national committee early in August, Then it became a sup- porter of Coolidge. ¢ “Mr, Lochray (publishér of Mid-West), was indebted to you asked termyer. “Yes “He owed you $1,5600 and about to quit publication?” “He owed me $1,600; but he didn’t say he was about to quit pub- lication.” Peter told of seeing Lochray in Chicago in an effort, he said, to col- lect his money. It was after that conference that the Mid-West gan to support Coolidge. “Did you_get your money?" asked Untermyer. “Have you got it yet?" "ou are still printing his paper the Gor- | per called “The Mid-West,” which is was | H DId you you say anything to him about the paper ‘flopping’ to Cool- 1age?" “T did not. 1 eould not control the policy of his pgper® Peter sald t.ochrny had pald him some money Tor printing the paper alnee that time: Thirty Days in Jail For Waterbury Man Waterbury, Oct. 30.—Claiming in city court here that Frank Grotto, 60 Ttushton place, charged with breach of the peace, had repeatedly threat. ened him with a revolver, Salvatore Crattello, 23 Bridge street this city, also added in his testimony that he had rcason to believe Grotto was a wmembér of the “blackhand.” Grat-" tello’s small son, Antonio, testified that Grotto on one occasion, had placed a revolver against his\fath- er's breast. While the boy was tes- tifying, Grotto pointed his finger at the lad and the latter #tarted to ery. The case was immédiately brought to a conclusion by Judge John F. 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