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...this, amount $450,000 came in the, form of notes from Colonel Procter, which were on exhibit in court, and he declared on the stand that the grand total of his contributions was in the neighborhood of $600,000. In spite of this massing of money, the fund was exhausted in May of that year and the campaign "collapsed...
...Colonel Procter said that he had not been active in politics before, in a national campaign at least, but that he had had some experience, in fact, a lot of experience, in business, and was very familiar with the manner of reaching the people in the homes of the country, but that it took money to do it. He said that in these days it was his idea - to use a commercial expression - to 'sell' the candidate to the people just as if he were an unknown new proprietary article or useful appliance or invention...
...contest in question was over a $100,000 note signed by Procter and Sprague. Colonel Procter was obliged to pay off this note, and sued to recover half of the money from Colonel Sprague. Procter asserted that they were equally responsible for the note. Sprague asserted that Procter ran the whole campaign, spending money lavishly in spite of Sprague's protest, and that he signed the note with Procter merely as a secondary endorser so that the bank which discounted the note might know he was co-guarantor and had a part in the transaction...
Another suit is pending before the Illinois Superior Court in which Colonel Procter is seeking to recover from Colonel Sprague half of what he spent in paying up the liabilities left over after the campaign - an amount which is supposed to be several times as large as that at issue in the present v suit...
...General Wood had been nominated and elected in 1920 matters might have been a great deal different. Colonel Sprague would probably be a Republican today, and Colonel Procter, when he was home from his post at the Court of St. James's, might have dined amicably at the home of Postmaster General Sprague...