The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1913-08-02
muLHALL AND HIS CLIENTS.

less interesting revelations of the
way he tried to do things for tho
manufacturers, but it was only after
he had woven Representative Under
wood into the tissue Of his tale that
he was given a truly comprehensive
and conclusive definition Of his char
acter. The Democratic leader OF the
house has been studying the tariff
question SO long and SO assidi
onsly that he has acquired some
proficiency in classification, and
he had no difficulty in placing Colonel
Muihall. once he had turned his at
tcntion to him. Mr. Underwood evil
IDENTIFY regarded the colonel as he re-
garded agate or zinc or wool or steel
or any other article to be scheduled
and defined for practical and official
purposes. and, having taken his meas
ure and tested his quality, he prompt
ly placed him In his proper place in
the list. He merely came before the
onel Mulhall IL liar and blackmail.
er, and, having done that, he bothered
himself not at all with the colonel,
who said he had mo desire TO contra
dict Mr. Underwood" but went his
way, quite unrufled by thewitness'
claim that he would stand clean ,
fore the country.
There have been various interpreta
lions Of Colonel Mulhall's revelations
or romances, the most frequent being
the significance OF sinister disposition
and activity on the part OF the manu-
facturers of the country toward the
agents Of the government and the
representatives OF the people at
But this Is not the most
important phase Of the matter at all.
There is nothing very surprising
about the fact that the manufacturers
used devious ways to protect them
selves, as they thought, against de
yious proceedings. Many fairly good
and supposedly shrewd men resort TO
strange courses against things OF
which they have become obsessed.
The wonder is not so much that they
employ the methods as that they
yoild to the obessions and become
such ready victims OF Shiny creatures
playing upon their fears. Colonel
Anlflall ssems to have raised up
CHESTS and exercised them with rare
and success, keeping him
self Well employed and literally, re-
warded out of the treasury OF the
association. Appar-
entity he fixed his influences on very
few of the representatives at Wash
ington, but he was remarkably dill
gent and ingenious in reporting ac-
quaintance and intimacy or relation
that would heye been valuable if trul.
He talked glibly of the conferences
he had held and the condolences he
had enjoyed with the important fig
ures in public life, and his employers
seem to have taken everything he
told as truth and to have commissions
cd him TO engage in all the enter.
prises he proposed and to have APP
plauded all the achievements he
claimed to have wrought. Actually
the coloners acquaintances were
mostly with the official rosters. lie
knew the names of the leading men
at Washington, and, perhaps, had
seen them from the public galleries
and corridors. and the rest he did
Ndth his ready pen, 1t was like Mark
TMain's intimacy with the Prince OF
Wales, which he related to Queen
Victoria in recommendation OF him
self TO her consideration in the open
letter he wrote on the copyright law,
lie said he knew her son and heir
very we'll, having seen him in the
streols Of London while he, Mark,
was riding on the top OF bus. Col.
onel Mulhall doubtless had seen Mr.,
Underwood about the capitol, where
anyone may so and look ON at the pro
ceedings, and he wrote his employers
that he had had very close and init
mate talk with abe Democratic leader
Mr Underwood never SAW the colon.
e at all, but she manufacturers did
net know that, SO they paid Mulhall
his salary and praised him freely ion
his smartncss in getting next" to Sc
influential 4 man as Mr. Underwood.
The interesting part OF it ail is tina,
such shrewd business men could be Sc