The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-07-15

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not sell them" announced the colonel
with some heat.
Il say did not sell them" this
more vehemently Il fell into the
hands of a gentleman that came over
To look over these papers for Mr..
Hearst. a gentleman by the name
OF Barry, who ] have since learned is
what they call a newspaper tipster."
After ne gave the papers to the
World. Mr.. Barry came to him and
wanted him to break the contract
with the World, and that Barry said
in the presence of other witnesses.
that he could get at laest $50 600
for those letters from the National
Association of Manufacturers. Witness
told Mr.. Barry that the letters were
not for sale in that way and that there
was no blackmail connected with
those letters in any shape or form;
that the N A. NJ. did not have money
enough to buy them.
AT the opening of today's session
Colonel Mulhal identified letter after
letter dealing with the unsuccessful
campaign which he and Marshall
Cushing. then secretary Of the n. A.
NJ. had waged in the Sixth Mary
land district against Colonel George A.
Pearre. Republican representative in
congress. The letters were similar
in tenor to those produced yester-
Cay.
Among other interesting items
which the letters developed was
transaction with one Joseph Dorsey,
colored. editor of newspaper, cir
culated among the negroes of the dis
trict. Dorsey had been given money.
cn 1ttI - f-;u = H.
attitude toward George Lowndes, Jr.,
who was the anti-Pearre candidate,
but after one issue of his newspaper,
Dorsey had Topped back to the Pearre
alignment.
Negro Editor Switches
An interesting Interchange of let
ters with c. III. Hoffman, an anti
Pearre leader, and now postmaster of
Cumberland, Md, was put into the
record, in which Mr.. Hoffman ex-
pressed the view that 1t was useless
to buy Dorsey over and over again,
IL he would not stay bought
From the Sixth MARYLAND district
the scene of Mr.. Mulhalrs activities
was now shifted to the Second Maine
district. where a congressional cleo
ton was to be held September To-.
1905. Mulhall was sent into the dis
trict. then represented by Charles f.
Littlefield, Republican. with a view
to making a fight for Republican sue
cess. The American Federation OF
Labor was fighting Lttlefeld. The
fight which Mulhall conducted on
Littlef1eld's part, was winning one.
his candidate pulling through by a
majority Of 1900. He told about the
use of -MhiSkey~ as a pefsaHder for
votes, and related that in the town
of Rockland. Maine, he had on cleo
ton day charge of local hall in
the town where. throughout the
period the polls were open, he took
care of twenty-three drunken Demo-
cratic voters.
MuIhaI charged that he had
bought Or. G.. L. Crockett Of Rock
land Democratic campaign speak
err. for $500, and DIR. Crockett, after
persuasion had made a rafting cam
paign speech denunciatory of Samuel
Gompers who at one time had been
his patient. Fred Wight. collectorlNf
the ports of Rockland. Thomastofl.
and Camden. Maine, he said he paid
money. IT came from the N. A. M.
Litt1efeld IL Expensive.
Mulhall related that the election of
Littlefield had cost $4,000. The
greater portion of this money was re-
lated in Eastern States from manu-
facturers, members Of the National
Association OF Manufacturers.
Following the election Of Little
Held. Mulkall related that he was en-