The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-06-30

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y -. M wiser, Previously and
1ueMtly the N. A. NJ. made large
e6lts OF cash to watson. He says
- 81 Representative Littlefield, an
FWf&9f strong temperance advocate,
$500 "A. election in the Second Maine
Z 1Id13oL Id 1896, by making Democrats
"a drunk they couldn't get TO the polls
Vie kzNH%y heisss s.fIspIied by The ~ A.
\. Il III charged that Representative Me
eo41. -Aof the Fourth Illinois dis
&14S eIected as a labor union spokes-
- was always in the pay of the
r x. N. slabby, and that the beef and
Hfher trusts supplied the cash for him
- win campaigns. He says that eN-
Representative Gardner. OF New Jer-
sjsey. after fight. surrendered to the
7Ahhy and became a sueseryient agent
These are only few of the details OF
S6e long story which Mulhan puts for
Ward as an account of the under
Eround operations of the \. A. M in
Wocrefiy controlling the government
His First Big Job.
y Muihali relates at the outset that
Nc began to lobby for the n. n. NJ. IN
Noyein Der. 1902 He was employed
md nut to work by Marshall Gushing
then secretary Of the y. a. NJ. Cush-
spx was then doing business, says
Muihail. with Senator Proctor, on YER
mont. Sneaker Cannon. and James y
sherman, and was visiting representa-
8iees and senators by night The nrst
big Job Malhall had was in beating
Senator McComas. Of Maryland, for
reelection, McComas had fought Tor
m eiEht-hear bill.
For years thereafter. under the dt-
rection OF President James W. Van
Cleaye, Of the n. A. Nj CMr. van
rC1eave died in 1870, Muihall was &C,
tive In lobbying at Washington and
I In "feld world" for the association.
FIELD work consisted in going into
sff1e districts OF the representatives.,
friends or opponents. of the n. A NJ
and in striving for, or lighting against
their re collections, the means used pc
ing TO spend large sums of money ana
to SECURE contributions from manu-
facfurers.
I He names Fred C. Schwedtman, who
succeeded Gushing as secretary OF the
n. A. M as one OF his employers
Keeps Voters Drunk.
Detailing one of his principal "feld
sobs,s he says that Littlefeld met
President Van Cleave. Secretary
Echwedtnan, and himself. at the
Waldorf. In July. 1907, and that tho
II A. NJ. paid Littlefleld's expenses
for the trip from Maine and back
meals and all Mulhail says he has
expense accounts to show 1t He de-
ecrtbes in detail how Littlefield 8 elec-
ZION was secured i'm 1906, by making
Democratic voters drunk. He was
afsgusted. he said. at the sights and
sfenches he found all around him
when he went to help 1-ittleneid-
Mr. Wright, L!ttlefield's campaign
Y.lanager). told me himself. says
bu faniSaa all 4nV
m old vacant ice house down near
the bay 1s5 Democrats whom they
kept In such a heastly state OF intoSi-
ration that they could not vote at
that election, and he seemed To Rioat
oser thie system Of campaigning.
.sUhishey. bribery, and other ex-
sEeY4ses. rcgt the \. A. NJ. SEQ, 900 to
win that fight. Mulhall states
He relates that Mr. Van Cleave met
Senator Foraker. of Ohio. and Repre-
tentative Sherman tlater Vfce-presl-
dent). at the Waldorf in July. l9ot'
ana that "Afr. Van Cleave was salts
red that those men would take care
OF the interests Of the n. A. NJ.
senator .sldrich was also supposed to
lie working for the n. a. VI.
Collects From All Trusts,
!. Mulhall then sets out that the \.
A. NJ collected money from all the
trusts, oil, wire. tobacco. etc, to carry
on its operations. and that James A.
Emery was chief counsel and chief
lohhyis. i. Phillip Byrd. as general
manager. worked out collections or
a percentage basis. About that time,
the summer Of 1907, Van Cleave had
several schemes To strike at the
American Federation Of Labor, and
TO assist the manufacturers One
.rns to raise 81 500, 900 for a publicity
tampaigr Another was to bride
Samuel Gompers, president of the A.
r, OF l.. 4 Mr.. "X'' was sure that
Gompers could he Melted. Muihali
argued against it, but found Van
Cleave obstinate The plan was to
offer $40. coo and permanent employ
iaent IN government service abroad
10 Eonpcrs.' Gompers, however, was
wary. He had arranged counter
plan to trap Van Cleave. When the
latter got wind of this the whole
matter was dropped.
Money and Cocktails for Watson.
The next part of the statemen!
concerns The long time, connection Of
Watson Of Indiana, with the n A.
NJ II described how the ~. A, NJ,
helped Watson win elections, and how
Watson reciprocated by. IN one in
stance, having removed from the
Z judiciary cotnm3ttc of the house three
members who were obnoxious to the
~ A. NJ Mulha}l charges that Wat
sen. in 1893 was hard up in Rush
Vile. called for money and received
81 1000 out of $4,000 that David NJ.
Parry. and other Indiana manufactur-
ers, had collected for him on a special
automobile round up. # was about
tris tine that Watson, Mulhall says,
absorbed cocktails while haranguing
for temper ancr.
Mu1han discusses Representative
James r. McIoermott, Of Chicago ar
great length, says that Mulhall posed
as a friend 81 labor. although sold
out all the time TO the lobbyists; that
McDsrmott let the lobbyists use his
frank. arranged a scheme by which
the pages and messengers Of tbs
house could SPY. and collect advance
news Of legislation for the lobbyists,
let the lobbyists use his own rnom
IN the capitol for an office, solicited
! and received money and even forged
4 check that had been contributed 10
his campaign fund by Harold r. Nc
Corfuick, Of the Harvester Trust.
Deals With Minister.
Settling Of strikes was one NJ Null
halls principal activities for the y.
A.. NJ. He had a hand IN breaking
Es yika in 1905 broke