The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-08-02
tions thus represented is to recognize
MULHALL's VERSATILITY.


who has furnished the Senate lobby in
vestigating committee with its sersa
I tions for some time past, is wha, cos
/ him his Job with the National Associa
tlon OF Manufacturers. 1t appears tha
he had steady position with this as
sociation. but that be was not content
with that, and branched out on his owr
account 70 make money on the side, a!
Secretary Bryan is doing in his Chau
tauqua lecturing.
During the heated temperance cam
psign in Maine in 1911, Mulhan in.
terested himself as the paid agent Of
the United Brewers Association, while
still in the employ of the y, A. NJ
and representing that he was working
Tor that association, took a prominent
part in the campaign in Maine against
prohibition. When the officers OF the
y. A. NJ. found this out, they called
Mr.. Mulhall on the carpet TO explain
his action. At first Mulhall denied
everything. stating that he had not in
terfered in that Maine election. ard
that he had not advocated the candi.
dacy OF S. I. kimball for Congress
but upon being confronted with his own
letters he squarely admitted the whole
charge, and said that he had taken
the part that he did at the request of
Ex-Governor Cobb Of Maine. and there
upon proceeded to attack the names Of
VicePresident Sherman, Chairman Nc
kinley, Congressman Driscoll, Senator
Frye and many others. The interview
between Mulhall and j. P. Bird, general
manager of the n. 4 NJ, became so
warm that Bird ordered MuIhall from
his office.
The S. T. Kimball named was the
choice OF Mulhall and the Brewers in
the Second District Of Maine against
D. J. McGillicuddy, Democrat, the
present incumbent.
General Manager Bird in reporting
the facts to President Kirby OF the N
\. NJ, recited the above facts, and
stated that ne found himself at a loss
to understand by what authority Mul-
hall felt il his duty to enter into any
district and represent
himself as being the spokesman of the
National Association of Manufacturers
in the selection of any candidate to
represent that district in Congress Mr..
Bird stated that he would not himself
assume that responsibility, and that he
felt confident that the President of the
n. A. NJ. would not DO so either. uu.
less he had taken counsel with his board
Of directors or executive committee, and
had been either directed or requested
by them TO do so Mr. Bird stated to
explicitly that his association
repudiated any statements you have
made to any man in that district per
tanning TO the candidacy of Mr.. Kim
ball, in 60 far as its authorization may
have been suggested by any official act
Of this association. General Manager
Bird wrote further to Mulhall. cit is
iistasteful 10 me, il is annoying 10 Mr.
Kirby, 10 feel that man entrusted
with certain work of the association
should feel il within the province OF his
Judgment to exceed his authority and
the association as has been
lone in this case
The upshot Of it was that Mulhall
vas discharged from the employ of the
National Association of Manufacturers;
md then he began to prepare his "reve-
ations.' 1t is n lesson that shows how
private concerns deal with persons who
assume authority more than is con-
erred upon them, and that seek en-
'loyment on the side to increase their
income. The National Association of
put into effect In Null
lall : case the general business PROPOSE
ion which ought not TO be lost sight of
~ any government employee, high or
ow, that when a man is employed at
stated salary, which is acceptable to
llmself. to fill a certain office, his whole
Iuty is TO his employer, and that he
las no more right TO engage in money
making on the side than any other em-
'loyee in any business has to take the
ime which his employer pays for to
arm money from somebody else.