The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1913-07-04
LOBBY IS EXPOSED
Col. MuIhaI Refused to Divide
with Playwright Barry.
GOT $4,000 FOR HIS STORY

Astonishing Accusations Are Made
Against Public Men-Says Congress
man Watson Drank Cocktails While
Talking Temperance and McDer
mott Sold Out Labor Men.
Martin M. Mulhall, Republican poIiti
clan of Baltimore, whose expose OF
the work of the lobby of the National
Associations OF Manufacturers was
published in several newspapers, it is
learned, sold the statement. for $1O.-
600.
Richard Barry, a widely known
playwright, author and newspaper
correspondent, says that Colonel Null
hall broke an agreement to give Bar.
ry half the amount for making the
deal. Barry has sued Mulhall in the
supreme court of this state, and SUI
preme court Justice Giegerich issued
an attachment for $4,000 against any
property of Mulhall's that could be
found here
Astonishing Accusations.
Here and there in the statement of
the self proclaimed corruptionist are
accusations of astonishing hypocrisy
against widely known men. He says,
for example that, in 1908, when James
e. Watson, running for governor of
Indiana, was making radical temper
ance speeches and denouncing all
drinkers, Watson slipped into his
room at the Claypool hotel, in In
dianapolis and drank six cocktails
that Mulhall had ordered and placed
in closet for him SO that not even
a bell boy would be the wiser. Pre-
viously and subsequently the N. A.
NJ, made large presents Of cash to
Watson. He says that ex-Representa-
tive Littlefeld, another strong TEN.
perance advocate, won an election in
the second Maine district in 1906, by
making Democrats so drunk they
couldn't get to the polls, the money
being supplied by the N. A. M. He
charges that Representative McDer-
mott of the Fourth Illinois district,
elected as a labor union spokesman,
was always in the pay of the N. A. NJ,
lobby and that the beef and other
trusts supplied the cash for him to
win campaigns He says that ex-Rep-
resentative Gardner of New Jersey
after fight surrendered to the lobby
and became subservient agent.
These are only a few of the details
of the long story which Mulhall puts
forward as an account of the under
ground operations of the N. A. NJ, in
secretly controlling the government.
McDermott Discussed.
Mulhall discusses Representative
James T. McDermott of Chicago at
friend of labor although sold out all
the time to the lobbyists; that Nc
Dermott let the lobbyists use his
frank, arranged a scheme by which
the pages and messengers of the
house could spy and collect advance
news of legislation for the lobbyists,
let the lobbyists use his own room in
the capitol for an office, solicited and
received money and even forged a
check that had ben contributed to his
campaign fund by Harold Mccormick
of the Harvester trust.
One of the most startling pieces of
information handed out by Mulhall
was the statement that the Manufac-
turers' association was directly re-
sponsible for the tariff commission
during the Taft administration, with
the object of forestalling revision of
the then existing tariff.
Lobby Committee to investigate.
The senate lobby committee said
Martin M. Mulhall would be ordered
to substantiate under oath all the
charges made against statesmen in
connection with the alleged $10,000,-
900 lobby. The committee also de-
clared that every man named by Null
hall would be summoned before it and
if necessary it's powers would be
widened.
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