COAL OPERATOR SPENDS MILLION FOR NOMINATION
COAL OPERATOR SPENDS MILLION FOR NOMINATION Campaign Expenditures of J. E. Jones, Senate Nominee, Make Other Slush Funds Seem Small Burial to The Progressive] WASHINGTON. D. C—The campaign "slush...
...Jones and his West Virginia political machine that helped him spend huge sums in procuring the Republican nomination have been openly denounced for using money in the most brazen fashion ever witnessed in West Virginia elections...
...Union labor in West Virginia Is bitterly opposed to Jones and regards him as the "father of the yellow dog contract" in West Virginia, as he was the first to introduce this device for the subjugation of workers into the coal fields of West Virginia...
...Jones will face former Senator M. M. Neely...
...Although Jones polled less than a majority of votes cast, with the opposition thus divided he was able to win with a plurality of approximately 35.000...
...Senator Guj D. GofT, the incumbent, failed to seek re-election, it being understood that he feared to face an overwhelming defeat as a result of his unsavory connection with the "Ohio Gang" in the Senate during the Daugherty scandals...
...A large part of his great fortune, it is said, wu gathered under the protection of some form of the yellow dog contract...
...Even his Republican opponents have made no attempt to conceal their opinion of the "slush fund" tactics Jones and his organization employed in the recent campaign, According to recent reports, the Senate committee on campaign expenditures, headed by Senator Nye...
...D. C—The campaign "slush hinds" scandals concerning Mrs...
...McCormlrk and Smith in Illinois, Vare in Pennsylvania, snd Gov...
...If reports coming out of West Virginia concerning the $1,000,000 expenditure of James Ellwood Jones, senatorial nominee, in the primary of two weeks ago are to be believed...
...As competitors in the Republican primary, Jones had former Congressman Benjamin L. Rosenbloom, Judge Harry Shaw and former Governor Albert B. White...
...Neely has received the en-iorsement of most of the union labor organizations in the state and will probably receive the support of most Progressives and independent Republicans who refuse to support the methods and ideas of Jones...
...Jonas, known as a "hard boiled" antiunion coal operator reputed to be the richest man in West Virginia with a fortune estimated to be between $40,-000.000 and $75,000,000 made largely from employing low paid workers under "yellow dog" contracts, is said to have spent large sums of money lavishly in every county in the state In order to win the nomination...
...Kohler In Wisconsin exposed in investigations held within the last year or so will have to take second places in the roster of big campaign expenditures...
...who was defeated for re-election two years ago, as his democratic opponent...
...is preparing to gather the facts concerning Jones' campaign...
Vol. 1 • August 1930 • No. 38
