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of Minols, Republican, who gave out} @ public statement a few days ago saying the British Government had appropriated $87,000 for entertainment purposes of the British Embassy in Washington and that the Senate Committee would prove that much of THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1920. Republican Party aaid they had felt ashamed of the performance. Hut if the Republicans felt indig- nant about one of thelr number, it was, nothing aa compared to the re- sentment of the Democratic leaders when they were apprised through the ie 4 BS |Reed Trying _’ ‘Charges by Calling State a —} i) — _—J — < = lL] Mix ¥ moned at the request : White, Democratic National Chair- of man, He admitted under cro##-ox- —_>— { Chairmen and Field Workers. i By David Lawrence. [Special Correspo: The Eve- Eeprece nies Wore” CHICAGO, Sept. 1 (Copyright, | 1920)—Gov, Cox says Will Hays's Fetatements are false and Will Hays ways Gov, Cox's charges are false. | And that's about as far as the Sen- \}atortal investigation bes gone toward Seettling the controversy bout « } 915,000,000 slush fund, though a care- | ful examination of all the testimony /thys far will show that the ‘burien ef proof now rests with the Demo- cratic nominee. ‘The Republican Treasurer, Fred ‘W. Upbam, has admitted on the _j@tand that the Republican goal was Vadout $5,665,000, though he didn’t expect to raise much more than half (ot it Mr. Upham further says be {has no knowledge of what the several Btates may have set for themseives Gov. Cox insists that the difference would \] } as quotas, t where ve made up between the $5,665,000 ad- [mitted as a goal and the $4,000,000 which he claims was once fixed as bhe Republican quota by State and | National Committees, ' | Amterrogation and sharp crows exam- to Support|smaier than sums usually But the Democratic nominee has as | yet furnished no proof to warrant the |‘ eseumption that a larger fund was | being planned beyond the typewritten ‘Mst of quotas, the authenticity of .| Britten winced under the chastise- ment of Republican and Democratic this had found {ts way Into the Demo- cratle campaign fund to elect Gov. Cox. Mr. Britten was promptly sum- of George amination that he did not kn whether the sum of $87,000 for enter- tainment larger or appro- priated by the British or other Gov- ernments, He said he didn't believe it was for entertainment, but pub- Heity for the League of Nations. Asked to submit evidence, he sul mitted @ page of newspaper material being sent free to newspapers con- taining # flotion article praising the League of Nations, The story had been published in a magazine owned at one time by the Iate Walter Hines Page, American Ambassador to Great Britain, and although Chairman Kenyon brought out that Mr. Page has been dead for two years, Mr, Hritten sought to convey the connec- tion that the British Government was behind the thing. purposes was fered them and that it was being con- he saw nothing disloyal in the expen. to carry on a propaganda for the would prove the connection for him, whereupon the bombardment started BUKED BY OHIO SENATOR. that opinion and American political campaign withou! dence to tack wp bia chargé. Mr. members of the committees. Later in the day Mr, White of the Democratic Committee said on the stand that the article had been of- sidered asa publicity venture. Senator Reed remarked that while he himself is opposed to the League of Nations diture of funds by American citizens League of Nations and that it was up to Mr, Britten to prove the connec- tion, If any, between the British Gov- ernment and the Democratic cam- Paign fund, This Mr. Britten admit- ted he couldn't do, but frankly said he had issued the statement in the hope that the Senatorial committee CONGRESSMAN BRITTEN RE- Senator Pomerene asked Mr. Brit- ten if he was a lawyer and if he knew suspicion were neither evidence nor proof, The Ohio Senator rebuked Mr. Britten, more- over, by asking him if he, a member of Congress, were not doing a serious thing to charge a foreign Government with paying money to interfere in an having so much as a acintilla of evi- Later some men high in the councils of the UNSECURED LOAN testimony of Senator Harry New of Indiana Chat in their own headquar- ters in New York, Jobn O. Hall of Salem, Oregon, was now employed af- ter he had endeavored to sell his ser- vices to the Republicans for a higher figure. Hix asset wea his knowledge of how to get the Scandinavian vote.4 Senator New révenied lengthy cor- the Democratic Administration at Says He’s Sure $125,000 Note Will Be Paid. present, he was really Republican {n sympathies and would giadly work | for the Kepublicans at a stipulated | palary. The Republicans had origin.’ ally solicited his services, but found that he was playing both sides and dropped him. The Democratic National Chairman, George White, was amazed to learn that some of his subordinates had hired Hall, who olaimed to be a col- lege profesor. The feeling waa 80 intense after the revelation that if investigation shall corroborate Sena- tor New’s lettera and it should prove that the Hall employed by the Demo- erats in the same one with which the Indiana Senator negotiated there will be an instant dismissal of said Hall. Instead of feeling sad over the affair, the Democrats may well be giad they were tipped off by their Republican Harvey D. Gibson, President of the Liberty National Bank, confirmed to- day the testimony of Frederick Up- ham, given before the Senate Com- mittee investigating campaign funds, that the Liberty National had ad- vanced to the Republican National Committee 125,000 op an unsecured note, According to Mr. Gibson, the loan was negotiated about TO REPUBLICANS al hich Hall teated . t 7 | Charo although he was an employee of President of Liberty National {and was solicited by Treasurer Up- ham personally. In defense of making the loan on an unsecured note, which Upham teatified does not constitute a legal obligation on which the lenders could sue, Mr. Gibson stated that while the transaction might in some respects be considered out of the urdinary he wa. assured the Republican Committee would receive contributions more than enough to cover the note and that it would be repaid In making this loan, Republican and Democratic National | Committees was not shown, He as- would have been glad to make a sim- liar loan to the Democratic Commit- tee had such a request been made, As indicating that the joan to the Republican National Committers was not of an unusual nature, Mr, Gibson volunteered the information that the Liberty National Bank had a similar banking arrangement with the Re- publican Committee four years ago, that loans had been advanced to the Red Cross under an identical arrange. ment and that at the beginning of the vanced to th Mr. Gibson stated, diecrimination between the serted that the Liberty Nationa Bank Interchurch World Movement month ago, $1,000,000 had been organization In anticipation of receipt of contributions, ‘STORE OPEN 9 A. 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New Ribbons Thirty-fifth Street “a ‘be collected on the subject—by prying 4 DEMOCRATS SAID TO HAVE | dmation unexocelled in the American Vy ) Benate, ie trying to support Gov, | Con's case by calling all the State te )Cheirmen and field workers in the ' ‘ @ountry who have anything to do ‘with the Republican finances, The _ Republicans naturally don't like this, u 'gor, declaring their confidence, that it fe a wild goose chase, they argue it takes many valuable men away from ih , their work in the midst of the cam- (peign, ( + On the other hand, if there is any- is , thing to Gov. Cox's charges, that is | about the only way any evidence can » | « tmto the finances of the State Com- mittees. For the National Committee _ officers claim innocence of what the State Committees are raising. Tho | Democrats know the burden rests up- om them and they show no signs of winding up the investigation, Inci- dentally they are in financial straits, , RAGED ONLY $60,000. 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