The Prescott daily news., 1913-07-19
MULHALL TESTIMONY SHOWS IT WAS READTY TO AID SPEAK
 ER'S ELECTION IN 1908.
RATED THEMSELVES HIGHLY
Lobbyist Understood Van Cleave Hooked After" St. Louis Con- eressman-Schwedtm Con-
 sidered Parry Powerful.

Washington, July 19.-How the Ma tional Association of Manufacturers proposed to concentrate it's energies | if necessary for the reelection of for. mer Speaker Cannon in the 1908 cam. paign, was described in one of the Mulhall letters brought before the senate lobby committee.
 Mulhall, confessed lobbyist for the manufacturers, was about one-third through with his stock of correspond. ence when the committee resumed. The letter bearing on Cannon was written to Mulhall by Secretary Schwedtman of the manufacturers on August IF, 1908, and declared all en. ergies would be concentrated in Can. mons district, Eff there should be the slightest occasion for it." 1 A letter from Mulhall to former Peprese0ts tive Loudenslager of New Jersey aid the manufacturers had l held workers out in the campag gn in many New Jersey, Pennsylvania and !, Indiana districts. Senator Reed questioned Mulhall about Congress- man Bartholdt.
 T have always understood Schwed man and Van Cleave looked after Ba' tholdt and that the brewery interests helped" replied Mulhall.
 The committee decided immediate ly to hear s. w. McClave, Republican candidate for congress in the Sixth New Jersey district, where a special election is to be held Tuesday.
 Writes of "Spanking."
 Mulhall testified that he had run McClave's campaign against William | Hughes in 1910. McClave wired Sen ator Cummins he would come to l Washington, and the committee de. cided to hear him as soon as he ar rived
 The cross-examination of Mulhall on Republican members of the commit. tee who declared it was an attempt to play politics.
 Question of Big Men.
 In August fight in the Eleventh ! Wisconsin district, where John I Jen- kins was up for reelection, apparent ly was worrying the manufacturers, although the National Brewers asso- ciation. through its national chairman wrote Mulhall it was their fight"
 Edward Hines, the Chicago lumber. man who figured ins the Lorimer case. ;,,tC hoo II swore that in letter to the manu- facturers, August 27, Hines spoke of r promise to send $1,000 to go into the right channel to be used for le- eitimate purposes" in the Ienkins dis trict
 [ Schwedtman wrote Mulhall on Aug. 2S T don't consider Ted " nor Taft. nor Sherman, nor Foraker, nor the rest of those great men, equal to Van Cleave. Parry, Kirby and the others who have given freely of their energy and their money to the great cause which is exploited in the principles of the National Association of Manufac- turers"
 There was no question in the minds Of the members on the senate lobby committee of the autocratic influence of the N. A. Nj. at the Chicago con. Ventlon which nominated Taft for president when letters, telegrams ana reports had been read into the record. The officials of the association mani fested undisguised admiration for their own achievement in preventing T. R.'s convention from putting any thing in the platform for Taft dis tasteful to it and to satisfy the labor interests
 Private Look at Platform. As matter of fact it appeared from the correspondence that Arthur l. Vorys. Taft's personal representa- tive, suggested that the N. A. NJ. of ficials come to Chicago 2 week or so before the convention to have a private look at the platform In a letter to Emery, Schwe1tman, secre. tary to President Van Cleave of the N. A. M., had asked, What IS the best way to influence the drafting of this platform in the right direction ?' The nomination of the late James s. Sher- man for vice-president was viewed as most extraordinarily brilliant coup because T. R. and Taft were undea:a- bly, opposed to him.
 s. Wood McClave, a lumber mer- chant of New York, has been in the habit of running for congress on the | straight goods ticket in the Sixth dis