The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-16
Was Called "IndustriaI Defense
Fund"-And Used Secretly.
WATSON CAMPAIGN 100000
That Amount Mentioned in Let.
ter Discussing Situation.
Investigating Committee Shy i'm
Asking Seine Questions.

$500, 900 to 100000 a year, raised by the
National council for Industrial defense
an adjunct of the National Associa-
tion for Manufacturers for opposing
legislation the manufacturers did not
favor, was described to the senate lob
by committee today by Martin NJ. Null
hall. Mulhan testified he had no per-
| sonaI knowledge of such a fund but
said the collector for the organization
recently had given those figures to
the New Yorw World. Il often have
thought and suggested" said Mulhall,
| that the council ought to be investi-
gated by the postoffice department. If
it were investigated L feel that the
| gentlemen who run it will have hard
time accounting for the money col
| lected."
The committee did not question
Mulhan further on the subject. Mulhan
| swore that money had been paid to
| him from the fund for political pur-
poses but did not explain what the pur-
poses were.
| Martin M Mulhall today brought the
stories of the lobby activities of the
| National Association of Manufacturers
up to 1908 before the senate committee
| and told about the work of the as
sociation in promoting a tariff commits
sion.
Miles and Schwedtman wanted to
control the association themselves,
Mulhan testified. He did not explain
who Miles was. Schwedtman was sec
retary to J. w. Vancleave, then presi-
dent of the association. James A.
Emery, counsel for the manufacturers
wrote Mulhall on January 16, 1908:
Doubtless you know we had tus-
sle on the floor of the house last Satur-
day where an attempt was made by
the Democrats under cover of an
amendment to a conspiracy provision
of the revised statute to enact some or
the worst features of the extreme labor
legislation now before the judiciary
committee. Our friends stood firm and
the attempt to make campaign plunder
was squeIched in the most admirable
way and happily Democrat, SWager
J Sherley of Kentucky, took chief part
in the defense of the existing law and
| against the proposed amendment
Watson Controlled Machine.
| Another letter Mulhan wrote at IN
| dianapolis July II, 1908. to Schwedtman
| at ST. Louis reported how Mr.. watson
! had a large majority of the machine
| under his control.
| ."The convention of the miners will
he held here the 21st,' it continued,
| "thev certainly expect Gompers, Dun
! can and others.
| ."Three of the district presidents from
| the anthracite districts are my personal
| friends I feel 1 might be able to 90
| good work through those gentlemen
| and it is too bad we are short of funds
when the convention is coming with
| the opportunity for use.
| Mulhall said he met VanCleave ana
| Schwedtman on a train passing through
j Indianapolis January 49, 1908, told them
| of the Watson campaign ana SPOKE
| about 100000 being needed.
| On January 10, Mulhall wrote
| Schwedtman:
| Mr.. Watson Friday told me that if
! there was any danger of any class leg
! islation being brought up while he was
| absent from Washington, to have Mr.
Emery see Senator Hemenway. He
| also told me to write Emery and say
that Speaker Cannon would receive
him at any time and he could talk free
ly and fully to the speaker spI Lsel,. and tha'
Washington, July 16.-In January,
| 1908 Mulhall received a letter from
| former Senator Foraker suggesting
i that he visit Cincinnati for a short in
| terview." He testified he made a writ
| ten report to Foraker, showing "how
the senator stood among business in
! and about Cincinnati. He did not tes-
! tify whether the report was favorable.
/ Foraker wanted to know if he would
! stand a chance to be reelected to the
senate and was still thinking of
! presidential boom.
| Mulhall got back to Baltimore poll
tics and pushed forward two years to
| January, 1910. In a letter to l. H.
| Scates of the Builders exchange of
! Baltimore, he wrote:
Rottenest in Baltimore.
"The situation in Baltimore politics
is the rottenest of any city in the
United States.
never played such politics as
are played in Baltimore. for
active, pushing, fighting Democrat,
but or the other hand if there is
any clean Republican who attempts to
gang that calls itself the Union league
of Baltimore city imme diately gets
busy and attempts to destroy his repu-
tation as we'll his usefulness to the
Republican party. Besides this every
BODY knows that the Stone faction has
/ continually played to the rabble in the
| labor ranks The chance is now open
i for the business men or Baltimore, if
| they wish to do something in the work,
! to bury Stoneism and all that goes
I with it. There is an earthquake aris-
ing underneath Mr.. Stone, and l be-
, Iieve he will soon feel the shake"
Mulhall identified a letter from c.
! A Carlisle to H. E. Miles, chairman
of the tariff committee of the Asso-
Citations of Manufacturers. urging the
/ candidacy of Charles w. Miller of
Goshen, Indiana, for governor against
Watson.
| Lists of congressman who, Schwedt-
man seemed to think might vote for a
| bill in which the manufacturers were
to Mulhal1 The committee will later
examine Mulhan at greater length
l about the list. Mulhau paused to pay