The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-15

to Rockland that $4,000 had been raised
for the Maine fight around Boston among
manufacturers and others
Mulhall declared the fight for Littlefield
and against Gompers had come to be con-
sidered a national fight by the National
Association of Manufacturers and tina,
for that reason such a large sum had
been raised. He thought $60, 600 had been
spent in the Litttlefeld campaign In
Maine in 1906.
G. c. Cox, former treasurer of the Mas
sachusetts state committee, had told him.
he testified of the raising of $4,000 for
this purpose in and about Boston
With the conclusion of the Littlefield
fight September 10, Muhall said he was
| transferred to New jersey and took
charge of the manufacturers fight in the
campaigns in the seventh and eighth New
| Jersey districts and in the eleventh Penn
| sylvania district.
| In supporting Dr. Cobleigh in the eley-
| enth Pennsylvania district Mulhal wrote
to the late Vice President Sherman and
then chairman of the republican national
| committee, asking for help to secure the
: Endorsement of the Lincoln party i'm his
| district In this letter. dated October Is,
1906, Mulhall asked Mr.. Sherman to use
his influence to this end with Charles
| Emery Smith, former Postmaster General,
and also asked that Congressman James
| Il. Watson of Indiana and John T. Nc
| Donough. former secretary of state of
New York be, sent to the eighth district
, for campaign purposes.
Another letter to Sherman on the same
GATE again urged him to send prominent
speakers into the eleventh district
"Gompers and Mitchell spoke here last
night and the effect of their speeches is
felt and will be felt throughout both of
the districts the letter said IF YOU
seno McDonough here with the workers
that already have here. we are sure
to give them run for their money!
Inc committeeman laughed when Mr.
Sherman's reply to the MulhaIl letters an
peared. 1t was written from the head
quarters of the republican Headquarters
to Marshall Gushing at Washington and
enclosed the envelopes in which Muhall S
Two letters had been contained
Ihese We're delivered to the demo-
cfatic congressional committee at Broad
way ana Twenty-seventh street, said Mr.
Sherman. The people over there were
good enough to send them right over here
oy messenger without opening them Let
me suggest that you advise Mulhall at
once OF our correct address, and that we
| are the republican congressional commit
tee, not the national congressional COM
mittee."
DID Mr.. Sherman know that you were
being paid for your work by the National
Association of Manufacturers? asked
Senator Reed
"Oh, yes" said Mulhall. 'I took orders
, from the national committee almost as
| much as from Mr.. Cushing" Another let
ter read related to Mulhalls mission to
Congressman George W. Fairchid's dis
trict in New York Mr.. Fairchild was
| fearful Of the effect of the Hearst ticket
! upon his campaign, said Mulhall He said
| he got a letter from the Hearst people
! and spent $40 entertaining and getting ac-
quainted with the Hearst manager and
finally found out and gave to Mr.. Fair
child all the information he wanted about
\ his enemies campaign. Don't forget to
keep after Pearre; that is, have one or
| more persons put 1t right up to him so
that he will have to say yes or no whether
4 he will or will not vote in the House
! judiciary committee to report any anti
| Injunction bills; whether he would vote
against reporting such a bill favora bly,.
or whether he would vote to postpone con-
\ sideration of the bill. This is very i'm
portant,. and ! want you to get him in a
corner definitely ON this proposition
Weave a web about him that he cannot
escape from"
| In a letter to Gushing, Mulhall asked
| him to "get Mr.. Sherman to have Senator
Cannon write to Hon. William Connell'
| to get him to help the candidate (Dale) In
| the Tenth Pennsylvania district.
| Tie fight In the Wilkesbarre district, in
which DIR. B. J. Cobeigh was the repub-
| lican candidate was the subject of sew
eral emphatic letters in the Mulhall cor
respondence. In one to Mr.. c." dated
November 4, 1906. Mulhall complained
about the total lack Of modern campaign
Methods in behalf of Cobleigh.
"He has placed his campaign in the
hands of an egotist here by the name of
| DIR. Lake." ne said, 'and all Lake boasts
about doing is his editorial writings for
! the several country newspapers in and
around Wilkesbarre The thousands of
| circulars sent here by the republican con-
gressional committee are still lying on
| the floors of the county committee rooms
and not one of them has been put out
| Besides this, Cobleigh bought up lot of
delegates at the June convention for cer-