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MULHAlL SHOWS
LONG BLACK LIST
Names Of Congressman Who
We're to be Defeated.
HELPED BEAT TOM JOHNSON
Confessed Lobbyist Tells of His Po'
Iiticai Relations With Prominent
Men.

| Confessed Lobbyist Tells of His Po
Iticai Relations With Prominent
Men.
Washington. July lG.-The eXamina
tion OF Martin VI. Nulhall. the former
| lobbyist of the National Association
OF Manufacturers, before the senate
lobby Investigating committee, brought
out a memorandum which Mulhall said
was 'bla-h list" of congressman
Mulhall thought il mad been prepared
by former Representative Watson. 1t
follows:
watson Here's list for you to
knock out: Chandler, mississippi;
Hamlin, Missouri; Danforth. New
York; Payne, New York; Lever, South
Carolina; Graham, illinois,; Lobeck,
Nebraska; Beall, Texas; Stephens
John H., Texas; Bowman. c. c.. Penn
sylvania: Lloyd, Missouri; Clark. Mis-.
souri,; Humphreys. mississippi; Car
ter, Oklahoma; Brantley, w. G.; Hull
Tenne&see; BnlEley, Ohio; Burgess,
Texas; Towner Iowa: Focht, Penn
sylyana Gardner Massachusetts;
Henry George, Jr.. New York; Henry,
r. L., Texas: Kinds, Maine; Lind
bergh. Minnesota; Rees, r. R., Kan
sas; Reilly. T. L., Connecticut; Foster,
Vermont
The political success OF the National
Association OF Manufacturers In 1907
caused it 10 decide TO play part IN
the selection OF president the fol-
lowing year. according to letter
written by Fred c. Schwedtman, sec
retary TO the late James w. Van
cleave. president OF the association,
to Colonel VI. NJ Mulhall
In other letters it was indicated
that Colonel Mulhall, as agent of the
manufa ct,lrers, had close political re-
lations with Governor Haines, oil
Maine: Representative Bartholdt and
Cowdrey. of Missouri. and that the as
sociation was instrumental in defeat
ing Tom L. Johnson for. reelection as
mayor of Clevela nd.
Mulhsll was examined on letters
written in 1870. 10 the late James W.
Van Cleave. president OF the National
Association OF Manufacturers. One
from the late Vice President Sher-
man. then member of the house, ar
ranged for meeting with Van Cleave
and Mulhall in New York on July 20,
|1qo5.
IN letter to MIR. Sherman on july
|16 Muihall wrote: Il have just re-
llsss.ls
have put the ball a-rolling IN Indiana
so that it will help Mr.. Watson to re-
nomination. !"
Fred c. Schwedtman, secretary to
Van Cleave. wrote Mulhall on Aug. 9,
1907:
There are some large things brew
ing and there Is every Indication that
in our tariff campaign we have with
us the majority of the Republican
congressman and senators and men
higher up than that, too
Schwedtman wrote to Mulhall Sept.
s, 1907, bringing in the name of for.
mer President Taft, then secretary OF
war.
"You saw, OF course, where Secre-
tary Taft referred to the National AS
sociation of Manufacturers at great
length in his Columbus address. If we
succeed in getting the council plans
thoroughly established then our power
for good will grow right along until
next year during the presidential CAM
paign we will be a factor of national
importance that cannot be overlook,
ed"
Senator Reed wanted to know more
about the associations tariff and reel
procity activities.
"The National Association of Manu-
facturers created and solely created
the tariff commission" declared Mul-
hall.
Mulhau explained that while Mar.
shall Gushing was secretary OF the as
sociation the greatest efforts were
made to conduct political maneuvers
secretly. Men were referred to by
numbers. Mulhall was No. II, Con
gressman LittlefieId No. 8 and Sher-
man No. 3.
In 1907, at the direction of Van
Cleave, Mulhall went to Maine to
make a complete canvass of the Re
publican political situation. Before
this Muihall had been in St. Louis.
Mo-, to aid in breaking a strike in the
Blue Ribbon shoe factory.
Thomas j. Lyons, Republican, OF
Augusta, Me. who co-operated with
Mulhall in electing Congressman Lit
tlefield, received the first certificate
of character the witness has bestowed
81 think he was absolutely honest,
said Mulhall He was rot in my em-
ploy.''
A letter 10 W. d. Sayles, of Cleve
land, O.. dated July 16, 1907, showed
that the Manufacturers association
was prepared to aid in a campaign to
defeat Mayor Tom l. Johnson for re-
election in Cleveland. Mulhall was IN
Cleveland doing political work during
the Johnson campaign OF 1907.
1T went there at the direction OF
the National Association Of Manufact-
urers, and We beat Johnson, explain
ed Mulhall
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