The Washington times., 1913-07-26
MULHALL NOT A MYTH.

Just because two or three Senators like Cummn
and Nelson have successfully contradcted Muhall O
some minor matters and because Mulhal made mis-
take in stating the time former Congressman Watso
received remuneration for lobbying for the N. A. M
the newspaper organs of Big Business are trying I
make out that all of Muhals exposure is incorrect
that he never represented the N. A. M. /; and if h
did he not authorized to resort to the bribery an
other crooked work that he admits he did resort to.
If Mulhall had nothing to back up his confession
except his own unsupported statement and copies o
letters he alleges he wrote, then there might be room
for doubt But these the least of the proofs Mul
hall has exhibited thus far.
There are the letters of the Congressmen an
United States Senators and crooked labor leaders ant
political brigands who wrote to him regarding tn
corrupt work in which they both we're engaged Wha
of them? They are not forged. They prove Mul
halls charges even more conclusively than Muhalp
letters to them and his verbal confession.
Then there is "Jim" Watson's admission that h
was hired by the N. A. M. to lobby in the halls o
Congress for it at the price of $3.50 week-a fact 81
we'll known throughout the State of Indiana tina
Watson did not need to confess it What becomes o
that fact? And for what did Watson lobby if not fo
the very things Mulhal charges. Letters that passet
between them and between each of them and other.
bear out Mulhalls charges. And if the N. A. M. EN-
ployed Watson to lobby at the price of $3.50 weel
and employed other men to lobby at high prices
why not Mulhall?
Then there is this letter-only one of many o
like character and import written to Mulhall b.
Fred c. Schwedtman, secretary to the president o
the N A. NJ under date of January 8, 1908, relative
to Mulhall's lobbying for the N. A. M:
On the other hand my dear colonel, how strong
feel your work believe 1t Is the very direction In
which our organization (the N A. M can do no end
of good but I stated to you time and again. much
has been spent and expenses at the present
are enormous.
The New York Office advises us that our expendi.
lures the direction in which you active
much larger than before and you know how many
the directors do not feel Just Mr. Van Cleave and
do about the importance of the political work They
must be taught; they must be convinced.
Or how about this one written by Schwedtmar
March 8. 1908?
at noon your lengthy report of March and he is very
much pleased with all that you say.
He Is especially interested in the Gardner PROPOSE
on and he wants me to impress upon you the special
need at this of giving Gardner careful considera-
ton in your talks with Mr.. Emery and Others possibly
Sherman (former Vice presidenD.
Littefeld anti-pilotage BILL assisting Mr. Sherman in
two three districts and preparing plans for defeat
ing Gardner at the election on account OF the
partisan stand he has taken on labor matters
Under date of June Is, 1910, John Kirby, jr.
president of the N. A. NJ, wrote Colonel" Mulhall
letter which contained confession of Kirbys knowl
edge of the character of work Mulhal doing and
his approval of it-plus his fear that it might become
public:
am strongly impressed with the unwisdom Of too
much letter writing about matters of confidential
natu passed through eXDerience
which clearly demonstrated to me the danger of too
free written expression Of matters that should be
fully guarded and subjected to the scrutiny Of those
who ought not to be conyersant with them.
In another letter dated at Dayton, Ohio, August
81, 1910, Mr. Kirby again got nervous over fear of
leaks that would expose the operations of Mulhall,
and he wrote him:
feel constrained again to remind you of the dan
ger of putting too much paper-having my grip put
off at Columbus by porter while bound for
New York, the grip containing package of correspond
ence-which would have been interesting reading had
the papers gotten into some particular hands.
All of these letters, of which those quoted are
only few, but very typical, prove Mulha has told
very great amount of truth, even though he may
have nterjected some matter that is not true.
Mulhall is myth. His exposure of Invisible
Government" is not lie. 1t will take rank with the
exposures of the Standard Oil correspondence and
the exposure of the postal frauds under Mckinley
CHAOS AND ANARCHY.