Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-18
in the very near future, and wanted m
10 aid him IN doing So
Promised Aid to FasSett.

in the very near future. and wanted me
10 aid him in doing So
Promised Aid to Fassett.
ON September IA, 1903. Mulhail swore ht
wrote Representative j. Sloat Fasset
that the National Association of Manu-
facturers would be glad to aid him If he
wanted it. In connection with this let
ter. Mulhali asked permission TO make q
statement
'I want to say" said Mulhall. that
was ALWAYS on friendly terms with MIR
Fassett, but he declined that aid and die
not ask aid of the National Association
of Manufacturers at any time. lie neip
ed us on some bills, but only because ne
was a good party man.
Il want TO say something also aooul
Mr. Swagar Sherley.' who was mentioned
here the other day.
..AH / know about Mr. Sherley is the
letter Emery wrote. l never approached
Sherley. / always thought he was above
approach and i never spoke TO the gen
tleman in my life
lanes A. Emery, Washington repre-
sentative of the National Council Tor
Industrial Defense, jumped to his feet as
Mulhail finished and said he wanted to
make a statement about Sherley.
Mulhall seemed to think Emery wanted
to deny some of his statements and start
cd to tell the committee he was Wiling
to submit to examination OF his CORE
spondence or testimony at once. Emery
explained that he merely wished to clear
Sherley OF anything illegitmate and the
matter subsidized. Mulhan said he would
make statements about many men ap.
pearing in the letters as he proceeds and
the committee acquiesced.
Cannon N. A. M. Favorite.
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Yesterday Col Nfulhall swore that in 1908
Speaker Cannon was the choice of the
y. A. NJ for the republican candidacy
for President above all others. He tes-
titled that the Speaker had been the chief
adviser of the representatives OF the as
ISOLATION In their efforts to have no
pianks inserted IN the republican PLATFORM
which would be prejudicial to Its inter-
ests. Representative Watson of Indiana
also gave his advice along these lines. II
was testified.
"Our entire organizati ton was busy try
ing to nominate Sherman for Vice Presi-
dent, and keep labor plankS out OF the
PLATFORM" said Mulhall.
The organiza ton swung to the support
of Taft, although II did not like some or
his public utterances on labor leg1sia-
ton. said Mulhall. because II became evil
dent that Cannon and the other presl-
Dental candidates had no chance OF sue
cess.
THE organization would have favored
Cannon above all Others he said.
Trips With Legislators.
July IA, 1905, Mulhall wrote to
Schwedtman telling Of trip to Mackinaw
Island with Speaker Cannon. Senator
Hemenway and others. during which con-
gressional campaigns were discussed.
toll 70 n
Louis friends that he would rather lose
his own district In Illinois than to see
Judge Jenkins Of the eleventh Wisconsin
district beaten"
Senator Reed questioned Mulhall about
his alleged relations with 5. w. McClave
in 1905 when McClave was candidate
for Congress in the sixth New Jersey dis
trict against William Hughes. now junior
senator from that state. McClave now
is the republican candidate In the new
sixth district, where a special election
will be held next Tuesday. Archibald Z.
Hart, the democratic candidate In this
district. was yesterday Endorsed by Fresl-
dent Wilson.
had denied acquaintance with Mulhali
and Jumped the witness from exhibits
in his case around the 1,S00 mark to
those close to 1000. The senator
ing the truth, Mulhall or McClave.
Funds Tor the Fight.
MulhaI identified many letters from
McCIaye to himself. written in 1893
and said he went to the sixth district
to help McClave fight Hughes. and gave
details Of his work there He said the
National Association OF Manufacturer
furnished him with $500 for this fight
and that q man named Barber put vi
$4,000 more. He told about taking Nc
Ciave to lunch and dinner, about riding
with him around In cabs on political
tours and in other ways helping out ir
the fight One item in an expense &C
soone Fssa the
ness was asked who the other person
was
ways on hand" said the witness.
Says McClave Crowded.
to shops in the district. He said they
went TO one shop and the superintendent
said ne would rather give $500 than let
them in. 'McClave growied all the way
home because we didn't take the money
and try to get the help afterward," he
added
The last three days Of the campaign
he and i slept together" said the wit
ness. thus illustrating how close he wa,
TO McClaye.
Mulhall said Mcclave was in the ium-
Der business. and members of the COM
mittee wanted to know II he didn't have
money. MuIhall had heard SO. But
he added. II have been campaigning for
thirty years among all sorts of mer and
j never saw such q tight-fsted wad In
my life"
NuIha1I said he furnished headquarter.
and paid for McClave's meals three times
a day.
What did you want to elect such q
man for he was asked.
He was a con man, that's the only
Complaint of Treatment
Senator Reed put in a letter Mulhal
swore he wrote to former Representa-
tive Ralph d. Cole OF the eighth Obi,
district, in which he said:
We suppose you are aware of tn
miserable treatment we received from
Attorney General Ellis, A. l. vorys an,
other Taft managers, and although ther
are several officers of our organization
who are friends of Mr.. Taft. still Their
are over 1000 manufacturers in thi
very sore on account of the work don
By Ellis, Hitchcock, Vorys and other
at Chicago
Cause of Soreness.
The committee wanted Mulhall to ex
plain what caused the soreness.
They We're having a conference 1
Ellis room IN Chicago" he said. wv
went up and knocked on the door an
for quite a time there was no answe,
Then Tafrs BROTHER came TO the doc
and said they would see US In a fe'
minutes While We were there Gomper