The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-07-30
MORE SPICY TALES
told ON THE REPUBLICANS By
COL. MULHALL
TRIED TO RUN MATTERS

Mnlhau Shows Blacklist of Congress
men-Documents Read Which Di-
vided the Sheep From the Goats
Wanted Watson in the Cabinet
More Shady Transactions Shown.
Refreshed by a two-days' rest,
Mulhall resumed his story before the
Senate investigating committee in
z Washington on Monday.
The late Representative Henry c.
Loudenslager Of New Jersey, who
was secretary of the Republican con-
gressional committee in 1908, seem
ed to have incurred the enmity of
Mulhan in October of that year. Null
hall wrote to Secretary Schwedtman
OF the manufacturers: Il told this
gentleman that the manufacturers
of this country were tired of pin
head politics and pinhead politicians.
When was through Mr.. Louden-
slayer offered an apology, claiming
that he would be good from this
time on, but I plainly gave him to
understand that whea he comes up
for denomination he would hear from
our people"
lF,,1l
had fallen out with Loudenslager.
Schwedtman wrote to MulhNl in Oc-
tober: "I do hope that when James
E. Watson (of Indiana) gets half
dozen of his good friends CD over
his knee and spank them to beat the
band, including your special friend,
Senator Beveridge. I'd hate false
friends more than I do the worst
enemies"
MuIhall said all his accounts were
Kept on his trips, evidently his wife.
s'She was drove crazy in the sixth
New Jersey campaign" said he. 'She
kept all my accounts and she was the
best politician T ever knew"
A Mulhall expense account dated
October 81, 1908, showed an item Of
$500, "paid to William NJ. Walsh, of
the executive board in the Tenth,
Eleventh and Fifteenth congressional
districts Of Pennsylvania, to do gen.
eral campaign work"
Mulhall wrote Schwedtman: 'We
have secured in the person of George
r Malby, representative from New
York, man who will fill the bill
entirely in Judge jenkins place when
he finishes his term as chairman Of
the judiciary committee. This has
been entirely satisfactory to Mr..
! Emery, and think it is splendid
move" It developed, however, that
MaIby did not get the place.
A long blacklist" of congressman,
Republicans and Democrats, who had
incurred the enmity of the National
! Association Of Manufacturers and
were to be opposed when they came
up &c. reelection was presented by
MuIhan. William Hughes of New
Jersey, now senator; William B. Will
son, of Pennsylvania, now secretary
OF labor; Thomas D. Nichols Of the
Tenth Pennsylvania; George A.
Pearre Of the Sixth Maryland and
John L. Burnett of the Seventh Ala
/! bama were described by Mulhall as
being on 'ttLe permanent blacklist" t,
because "they were always in favor
Of labor legislation.
eAgainst all these men we made
every effort to drive them from pub
lie ife,'' said he.
On another list Irvine L. Lenroot
and Henry A. Cooper of Wisconsin,
August p. Gardner of Massachusetts,,
Z Herbert Parsons Of New York, VIM.
S. Greene of Massachusetts,, Victor
Murdock Of Kansas, James T. Nc
Dermott Of Illinois, Champ Clark Of
Missouri and Gilbert N. Haugen Of
Iowa were described as "Cannon's
list and were in disfaYor with the
organization, Mulhall swore, because
Of their opposition to Speaker Can
non. On another list were ''Morse
and Nelson" OF Wisconsin, Harry L..
Maynard Of Virginia and Louden-
slayer Of New Jersey. Mulhall swore
the list had been furnished by Con-
gresham Watson or ttby Mr.. Childs'
clerk to the House committee on
war claims in 1910.
November 2, 1908, two days before
election, Mulhall wrote Schwedtman:
s<Following is list of congressman,
would advise having Mr.. VanCleave
send kilograms to, who I feel sure
will be elected and who have been
our friends in the past"
The list included Sherman, Can
non, Burleigh, Balzell, DENLY,
Dwight, Fairchild, Facet, Fordney,
Hepburn, Kiefer, Longworth. McKin-
ley, Malby, Mann, Moon, Moore, Par
sons, Payne, Rainey, and about forty
others.
On November 4. 1908, Schwedt-
man wrote Mulhall. $50 far we have
wired only Mr.. Taft, Mr.. Sherman
and Mr. Cannon"
On December 26, 1908, Schwedt-
man wrote to Mulhall about N!,as
might be done for Watson, speaking
Of him for President Taft's cabinet.
'To urge the appointment Of ca5i
net officer by public sentiment Is
hardly the right thing" he wrote.
On November %, 1908. Mulhali
turned his attention away from pcu-
tics and wrote to President George
F. Baer of the Reading Railroad
company. on instruction of President
VanCleave, about can extended
strike on the anthracite coal regions
this coming year unless tie labor