Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-07-18
GIVES
UNWR|TTEN
HISTORY
INSIDE STORY OF CANNON'S BOOM
FOR CONGRESS AND CONGRESS
SI0NAL CAMPAIGN NOW ON IN
new JERSEY DETAILED BY THE
WITNESS.
new Jersey MAN
WANTS TO REPLY

q Washington, ID. c., July lS---IIov
the National Association of Manufac
g turers proposed to concentrate It's en-
e ergies for the reelection of former
! Speaker Cannon in the 1903 campaign
was described in one of the first Mul
: hall letters brought before the senate
\. lobby committee today. The letter
? bearing on Cannon was written tG
. Nulhall by Secretary SchWedtman, OF
he manufacturers, August II, 1908.
The committee decided to imme-
diately hear S. w. McClave, Republl-
can candidate for congress in the
Sixth New Jersey District, where a
special election is to be held Tues.
day. I'D II
Mulhall testified yesterday that he
had run McClaves' campaign against
William Hughes in 1910. McClave to.
day wired Senator Cummins he would
leave Jersey City at noon and sthe
committee decided to hear him as soon
as he reached Washington.
The cross examination of Mulhall on
McClave yesterday aroused the ire of
| the two Republican members of tho
committee. who declared it was an AZ
tempt to play politics,
Senator Reed questioned Mulhall
about his alleged relations with S. w.
McClave in 1908 when McClave was a
candidate for congress in the Sixth
New Jersey district against William
obnc i'm tnr I1o
state. McClave now is the Republi-
can candidate in the new Sixth dis
trict, where special election will be
held next Tuesday. G. Hart, the Dem
ocratic candidate in this district, was
iLdoursed yesterday by President Will
son.
Senator Reed announced that Me,
Clave had denied acquaintance with
who was telling the truth, Mulhall or
McClave.
Mulhall identified many letters
from McClave to himself, written in
1908, said he went to the Sixth dis
trict to help McClave fight Hughes
and gave details of his work there. He
said the National Association of Man
cfacturers furnished him with S39OH
for his fight and that man named
Barber" put up $4,000 more. He
told about taking McClave to lunch
md dinner, about riding around in
1abs with him on political tours and
Il other ways helping out in the
isht. One item in an expense ac-
'ount Senator Reed put in the record
,roke of dinner for two and the
''tness was asked who the other per-
on was.
Il think it was McClave He was
lways on hand" said the witness.
Mulhall swore he took McClaye
round to shops in the district He
aid they went to one shop and the
hperintendent said he would rather
i've $500 than let them go in. INC
lave growled all the way home be-
ause we did not take the money and
ry to get the help afterwards" he
dded.
The last three days Of the cam
aign he and l slept together" said
le witness, once, illustrating how
ose he was to McClave.
Mulhall said McClave was in the
'mber business and members Of the
wanted to know if he
dn't have money. Mulhall said he
ad heard so. But" he added, "T
I'VE been campaigning for thirty
ears among all sorts of men and
'ver saw such a tight fisted wad in
y life"
Mulhall said he furnished head
Iarters and paid for McClave's
eals three times a day.
What did you want to elect such
man for?' he was asked.
He was a con man. that's the
ly way can explain it," said the
tness.
Mulhall said a man named
urke,' collector OF internal revenue
Paterson, had been paid by him
week regularly" for services in
S campaign.
Schwedtman wrote Mulhall August
about the situation in Indiana, in
ich he said, ''if we win, most of
: credit will be due to your good
rk. If some of our political friends
ould forget it later on, l want to
,e trip with you into Indiana for
J purpose of laying these good peo.
over on our knees and giving them
kind of spanking they ought to
5e
letter of Sept 1, 1908, from c. b.
thony, vice president of the manu-
turers, to Van Cleave, asked If
re was any way for the associa-
to aid 'our good friend, Hon. Ed
DENLY of the first Michigan dis
t" 1t added the suggestion was
De without the knowledge of Mr..
by,
n unsigned letter to Anthony.
It. ), which Mulhall said was from
CAeave said.
We must of course do all that is