The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-07-18


named startling to Van Cleave. II puts
" up in the air. We win see what can
be done and then wire you. Meanwhile
recommend your getting down to bottom
figures and then communicating with us
again" ).
Subsequently schwedtman notified Mul
han that 81 900 had been shipped t.
Jenkins by express. though letter read
into the record from Jenkins to Var
Cleave denied having received the money.
Under date OF July !. Mulhall wrote
Schwedtman:
There ID one thing wish to put very
plainly to you. that the brewery interests
should be more interested In hin tight
than our association would be, for
1t was Judge Jenkins more than any
enc else that stood for what they wanted
In Washington last winter when a great
many of the others weakened and were
willing to surrender to the temperance
people" That same day Mulhall received
wire from Van Cleave himself telling
him that unless the campaign could &c
run more cheaply than his figures indi-
Gated. the N. A. NJ. would have to with
draw.
By July Is. matters were not pro-
crossing fast enough to suit Judge
Jenkins. and he wrote Van Cleave a long
letter complaining that no real effective
work was being done for him. Subsc-
quent correspondence showed that Null.
hall and Jenkins manager, Col. Casson,
could not agree on campaign methods,
and when the final smash-up came in
Lenroot's nomination. each was blam!nR
the other.
Watson Called for Help.
While Mulhall was busying himself in
Jenkins campaign in Wisconsin. James
Z. Watson. Republican nominee for Gov
ernor in Indiana. was yelling for help.
He was most anxious that Mulhall drop
everything and return to his camp Ap-
parently the N. A. NJ. was anxious for
an opportunity to withdraw gracefully
from the losing fight in Wisconsin and
go to the assistance of Watson. who was
having trouble.
Watson was fearful the Democrats
would carry Indiana and with It the
largely as the result of /
the naming of John w. Kern as Bryan's |
running mate on the Democratic ma
tional ticket and because of labor planks |
in the Democratic platform.
July II Watson wrote Schwedtman as
Il wonder what has become Of our
friend. Col Mulhall. I need him very
much indeed The nomination Of John
he plank adopted by the Denver con-
iention Ohe anti-injunction plank, to-
,ether with other conditions that 1 need
lot here set forth, make II imperativel
or us to use all the means at our COM
nand to succeed in November"
Mulhalls work in behalf Of Henry T.
cannon. Of Portsmouth, Ohio. who wished
o return to Congress, and their joint ef-
orts to settle shoemakers' srike in
Portsmouth. were touched upon. The
se Of paid union spies was again re-
orted to. and expense accounts showed ,
hat one member of the union in Ports !
1outh was on Mulhalrs pay roll at SIS
week.
Breakfasted with Cannon.
The expense accounts carried many in ,
resting items. One charge was $50 for .
breakfast, at which Mulhall had en- ,
rtained Speaker Cannon. Senator Hem
nway. and Representative Mckinley.
to labor men were scattered
l through the lists.
Mulhall testified that in his political
ork he carried two sets of credentials,
lie from James s. Sherman. introducingi
m as Republican political worker. 4
I'd the other from President Van Cleave,
the n. A. N. He rarely showed both
Is Of credentials to the same people,
testified.
In a letter to Ralph B. Cole, MulhaIl
implanted of the bad treatment" given n
m and his friends at the Chicago con- u
ntion. Questioned by the committee |,
to what the bad treatment consisted y
he replied that when calling on Wade n
lis in regard to the PLATFORM, he, Van ?,
cave, Emery. and others had been
reed to wait outside the door for about VI
e minutes while Ellis. Charles p. lie
1T. and Frank Hitchcock concluded al
Inference with Samuel Gompers L.,
General Manager Bird, on the h,
and Wednesday, testified that James a. !;
merry, general counsel for the n A. NJ,
avs $4,000 year for presenting briefs
fore Congressional committees, Senator
led yesterday developed the fact that
nery's activities are much more ex- b
nded, and that he has been in active
pervision of Mulhalrs efforts since
arshall Gushing left the organization
AZ the end OF the afternoon session 70
nator Reed jumped ahead of his FRO ~
am In order to refute a statement By 81
Woods McClave, a candidate against OF
lillian Hughes in New Jersey in lele CO
the effect that he (McClave) did not to
ow Mulhall.
Says He Worked for McCIave. W.
Did you meet Mr.. McClave in the IN
npaign Of 1870" asked Senator Reed. 50
1t was In 1910 that / got into Nc to
ave's work. NJ
I notice in one Of the papers that NJ. Sc