Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-07-25
JERSEY LEADER IS
ACCUSED OF OFFER
TO HIRE REPEATERS
MnIhall Mentions Name of Pas
sale County Man to
PrObers.
N. A. M. AGENT SAYS HE
REFUSED TO STAND COST
Reiterates Assertion as to
Amount of Money Spent
for McCIave.
Star Bureau.
Metropolitan National Bank Bldg,

John r. Conklin, former chairman
of the Republican county commit
tee of Passaic county, New
Jersey, was charged this af-
ternoon by Martin NJ. Mulhall in
the Senate lobby investigation with
having offered to provide him with
repeaters from New York to vote for
s. Wood NcCfave fer Congress in
the Sixth dtstrict in 1910. The offer
was made on condftion that Mulhall
was to pay the repeaters, Mulhall
said, and he refused to do so.
Conklin, said Mulhall, justified the
proposal to use repeaters in Pater-
son by the statement that the DEM
ocrats were doing the same thing.
Replying to McClaves denial of his
charges, the former agent of the Ma
tional Association of Manufacturers.
reiterated his previous assertions as
to the amount of money he had spent
III McClave's campaign. He also re-
peated that he had paid for many
meals for McClave during the Con-
gress fight.
"McCIave Around at Meal Time"
When on the stand here McClave
said he had visited his own headquar-
ters in Paterson. where Mulhall was
in charge, only four or five times dur
ing the campaign. Mulhall today said
that McClave had been at headquar-
ters almost every day HE was usu-
ally around at meal time." said Null
hall.
Mulhall told the committee that
j. P. Bird, general manager of the
N. A. M, had given him three
checks of $1,000 each for use in Nc
Ciave's fight He had cashed these
checks and used the money, said
Mulhall and he put in an expense
account showing how 1t had been
spent. This expense account showed
money paid to George Burke, deputy
internal revenue collector of Pater-
son, and to James Hand, editor of
the Paterson News.
The statement that Hand was on
the N. A. M. payroll surprised Sena-
tor Hughes, who in 1910 was Nc
Clave's opponent. Hughes said he
Mad always thought Hand was on his
side of the fight. ii. b. w.
WASHINGTON. July 25.-Martin
NJ. Mulhalrs story of his lobbying
activities for the National Associa-
ton of Manufacturers as unfolded be-
fore the Senate lobby committee, is
TO be allowed to stand practically
without cross questioning from demo-
cratic members of the committee.
Senators Nelson and Cummins,
who yesterday began a severe ques-
tioning of the witness upon many
of his statements, probably will con-
tinue to demand more detailed state
ments upon his letters as they are
introduced in the record, but the
Democratic members, Senators Over
man, Reed and Walsh, expect to let
the Mulhall story stand principally
upon the evidence presented in the
5000 or more letters
Mulhall will go before the House
lobby committee early next week and
it is expected that there he will be
subjected to a rigid examination as
to the charges contained in his mass
of correspondence, that members of
the House were his close associates
in political campaign work, and in
efforts to head off labor legislation.
The Senate committee also has in
dicated that it will not permit a gen.
eral cross examination of Mulhall by
attorneys or officers of the manufac-
turers and those officials will attempt
to make Mulhall defend his state
ments before the House committee
next week.
Mulhall today testified that he
went to Massachusetts in August,
1910, and wrote General Manager
Bird of the manufacturers, of con-
ferences with Senator Lodge and
Charles E. Hatfield, chairman of the
State committee"
Senator Lodge pays us all kinds
of compliments for the work we are
doing and l know we will have his
] aid more actively than ever before
in the next campaign" wrote Null
hall.
In other letters that month Mulhall
wrote through our efforts we have
beaten the Honorable T. D. Nichols,
of the Tenth Pennsylvania, and we
also have beaten notorious George
A. Pearre, of injunction fame, in the
Sixth Maryland"
On August 80 Mulhall wrote Presi-
+ OcflI ldlt, dShiiiB iOT dH lnleINlCW
for Bird and himself
1T will be a great help to have a
number of the leaders of the manu-
featuring associations in touch with
the leaders of our party throughout
the country in the present crisis" the
letter ran.
Mulhall swore he received a reply
from G. D. Norton, the Presidents
secretary. arranging the interview
for Monday afternoon, September 12
at Beverly.
About an expense account of Oc-
tober 9, 1910. Mulhall swore he paid
s45 to George Burke, collector of in
ternal revenue at Paterson, to be
paid to James Hand, editor of the
Evening News, 'for salary for one
assistant in office to help him.
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