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Serial numbers on the Liberty Bonds thus used to obtain a cash contribution in Mr. Patten's name, identified them last week as part of the $160,000 given by Sinclair to the G. O. P.-a sum which Treasurer Upham and his furtive colleague, onetime National G. O. P. Chairman Will H. Hays, were at great pains to conceal...
...late Fred W. Upham, then national G. O. P. treasurer, asked Mr. Patten to write out a check for $25,000 to help meet the deficit incurred in the Harding campaign. He said he would give Mr. Patten $25,000 worth of Liberty Bonds in return. The deficit still amounted to six or eight hundred thousands, Mr. Upham told Mr. Patten...
...first impression," testified Mr. Patten, "was that I was indignant and mad at the tremendous expense the Republican Committee had gone to. . . . I simply stormed and I am afraid I used bad language...
...Patten explained that Mr. Upham had a "taking" way with him. Mr. Upham used to say to Mr. Patten: "I am the dearest friend you've got. I cost you the most money." Mr. Patten, realizing that the deficit had to be met, handed over a check for $25,000. Mr. Upham said he would soon deliver the bonds...
...more I thought of it, the less I liked its appearance," Mr. Patten testified. Why should Treasurer Upham dispose of bonds belonging to the G. O. P. so privately when there was a quick public market for them any day? Mr. Patten worried about it in bed that night. Next day he rid himself of these queer bonds by giving them as his subscription to the Evanston Hospital...