The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1913-07-24

DECLARES HE PAID EXPENSES
FOR N. J. CANDIDATE
FOR SENATE,
SAYS THEY WERE INTIMATE
Calls Him "Tight-Fisted Wad"-Many
More Letters are lndentj-
fled BY Star Wit
ness.

Washington, July 19.--Martin M.
Mulhall, late lobbyist" for the Ma
tional Association Of Manufacturers,
was put on cross-examination about
the truth of his own correspondence.
For the first time since nearly a week
ago he began to tell the senate investi-
eating committee the story of his do
ings. Senator Reed questioned Null
hall about his alleged relations with
S. w. McClave in 1908, when McClave
was candidate for congress in the
Sixth New Jersey district against
William Hughes, now junior senator
from that state. McClave now is
the Republican candidate in the new
Sixth district, where a special cleo
ton will be held next Tuesday. c.
Hart, the Democratic candidate in
this district, Thursday was Endorsed
by President Wilson.
Who Told The Truth.
Senator Reed announced that Nc
Clave had denied acquaintance with
Mulhall and jumped the witness from
Exhibits" in his case around the 1900
mark to those close to 1000. The
senator said he wanted to prove who
was telling the truth, Mulhall or Nc
Clave.
Mulhall identified many letters from
McClave to himself written in 1908,
said he went to the Sixth district to
help McClave fight Hughes and gave
details of his work there. He said
that the Nationl Association of Manu-.
facturers furnished him with $4,000
for his fight and that man named
Barber" put UP $4,000 more Ho
told about taking McClave to lunch
and dinner, about riding with him
around in cabs on political tours and
In other ways helping out in the fight.
One item in an expense account Sen
ator Reed put in the record spoke of
dinner for two" and the witness was
asked who the other person was.
Il think it was McClave; he was
always on hand" said the witness.
THE last three days Of the cam
paign he and slept together" said
the witness once, ILLUSTRATE how
close he was to McClave
Calls Him Tight-Fisted. 3
Muhall said McClave was in the
lumber business and members of the
committee wanted to know if he did
not have money. Mulhall said he had
heard so. But" he added, 81 have
been campaigning for 30 years among
all sorts of men and | never saw such
tight-fisted wad in my life
Mulhall said he furnished beadquar-
ters and paid for McClave's meals
three times day.
What did You want to elect such
man for?" he was asked. "He was
"con" man, that's the only way I
can explain it," said the witness,
Hundreds Of Letters Identified.
The testimony about McClave was
climax to rather sensational day
even for Il committee that waded
through almost daily sensations for
nearly two months In five hours Null
hall identified hundreds of letters,
bringing in the names of dozens Of
the most prominent men in the Re-
publican party in 1908 and speaking
Familiarity of making platforms, throw.
ing influence to men for nominations
to all sorts of Offices and of working
to elect or defeat others for congress-
AS the year progressed tine interest
of Mulhall in the national campaign
began to show plainly. His letters
to Secretary Schwedtman of the Ma
tional Association of Manufacturers,
to James w. Van Cleave. it's presi-
dent and to men in congress, showed
activity preceding and during the Re-
publican convention held in Chicago
that year. Arthur l. Vorys, one of
the Taft managers, Wade r. Ellis,
the man then credited with writing
the platform and afterwards the
chief trust buster of the depart
ment of Justice; Frank H. Hitchcock,
former Speaker Cannon, Representa-.
tive Mckinley of Illinois as we'll as
many others of prominence were men.
toned and Mulhall boosted in his let
tiers of his acquaintance with most Of
them.
Anti-Bryan Pamphlet
The witness identified pamphlet
issued in the fall of 1908 in which
President Van Cleave of the National
Manufacturers associa ton announced:
1--WE saw that we would fall in Den
yer if we went there SO we kept
out"
The pamphlet contained an attack
on William J. Bryan, then the Demo
cratic presidential candidate, but
ctotod that Van I1aava WAS "nct taIL
ing party politics.
Aged Woman Sues Veteran.
Paterson, N. j., July 19.-Miss EN-
ma Mahaney. g. wears old, of Wooster