The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-07-19
The Manufacturers Put His
Election Through in 1908,
Says Mulhall
AN EFFORT TO
BRIBE .GOMPERS
Described by Witness to the
Senate Committee
Yesterday

Washington, July l9.-Martin NJ. Null
hall yesterday told the Senate lobby in.
vestigating committee the story of an
alleged effort in 1907 -0s to bride Samuel
Gompers to desert the labor cause and
support the policies advocated by the
National Association of Manufacturers
Mulhall admitted he had no positive
information an attempt to bride Comp
ers had been actually made, but said
Anterior Brownel of New York had
outlined the plan TO him and told him
what was to be done.
The plan was to have Gompers sign
some sort of document that would in.
sure his future action, Mulhall thought,
| but the plan did not work
During the hearing, Mulhall made an
unexpected outburst, declaring officers
of the National Association of Manufac-
turers We're trying to stare him out Of
countenance" during his testimony.
/ How the National Association OF Man.
ufacturers proposed to concentrate its
energies for the reelection OF former
! Speaker Cannon in the 1908 campaign
was described in one of the first of the
"Mulhall letters" brought before the
committee yesterday. MulhalI, confessed
lobbyist for the manufacturers, was
about one third through his stack OF cor
respondenee when the committee re-
sumed.
The letter bearing on Cannon was
written to Mulhall BY Secretary
Schwedtman of the manufacturers ON
a,.I al
would be concentrated in Cannon's dis
trict "if there is the slightest occasion
for it,"
A letter from Mulhall to former Rep
resentative Loudenslager of New Jersey.
said the manufacturers had field workers
out in the campaign in many New Jer
sey, Pennsylvania and Indiana districts.
Senator Reed questioned Mulhall about
Representative Bartholdt.
Il always understood Schwedtman and
Van Clave looked after Bartholdt. and
that the brewery interests helped re-
piled Mulhall
The committee decided to Immediately
hear S. w. McClave, Republican candi-
date for Congress in the sixth New Jer-
sey district, where special session is
to be held Tuesday.
Mulhall testified Thursday that he ran
MeClave's campaign against William
Hughes in 1910.
McClaye wired Senator Cummins yes
terday he would leave Jersey City at
noon and the committee decided to hear
him as soon as he reached Washing
ton
The ss-examination of Mulhall on
McClave Thursday aroused the ire of the
two Republican members of the commit
tee, who declared it was an attempt to
play politics.
Schwedtman wrote Mulhall Aug %
about the situation in Indiana, which he
said was very critical and added "Tf
we win, most of the credit will be due
to your good work. If some of our po-
litical friends should forget it later on |
| want to take a trip with you into In. |
diana for the specific purpose os laying |
these good people over our knees and |
giving them the kind of a spanking they |
ought to have"
In August a fight in the eleventh Wis /
consin district, where John Perkins was
up for reelection, apparently was worry /
ing the manufacturers, although the Ma
tional Brewers association, through its
national chairman wrote Mulhall it was
their fight
Edward Hines, the Chicago lumber
man who figured in the Lorimer case,
anne into the hearing again yesterday.
Mulhall swore that in a letter to the
Aug. 81, Hines spoke of
, promise to send 81 900 to go "into the
light channel to be used for legitimate
in the Jenkins district.
Schwedtman wrote Mu1hall on Aug.
IS:
u don't consider Teddy nor Taft nor
Sherman nor Foraker nor the rest of
hose great men equal to Van Clave,
Parry, Kirby and the Others who have
,iyen freely of their energy and their
money to the great cause which is ex-
PRESSED in the principles of the National
Association of Manufacturers"