Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-07-18
M'CLAVE Off TO
ANSWER MULHALL
Jersey Candidate for Congress
Leaves for Washington to
Face PrObers.
N. A. M. SPENT $4,000 IN
TRYING TO WIN SIXTH DIST.
Colonel Barbour, of Paterson,
Swelled Anti-Union Fund
to SIS, 900.
WASHINGTON

" Y0g@OSs
I WASHINGTON July 1s.-The
Senate lobby committee decided to
! Immediately hear S. Wood McClave,
Republican candidate for Congress in
the Sixth New Jersey district, where
a special election is to be held Tues
day. Mulhall testified yesterday that
he had run Mcclaves campaign
against William Hughes in 1910. Nc
Clave today wired Senator Cum
mins he would leave Jersey City at
, noon and the 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 the committee who declared it
was an attempt to play politics.
Characterizing Major S. Wood Nc
. Clave, Republican candidate for
Congress in the Sixth District of
New Jersey, as ICON man" and a
"tightwad," Colonel Martin NJ. Null
hall told the Senate lobby commit
fee yesterday afternoon that the Ma
tiona1 Association of Manufacturers
had paid all of McClave's campaign
expenses during his fight for Con-
gress in 1910.
The N. A. M. spent $4,000 in trying
70 elect McClave to Congress and de-
. feat his Democratic opponent, WILL
lam Hughes, in 1910, Mulhall testi-
fed. In addition to this amount
Mulhall personally collected $4,000
from Colonel William Barber, the
Paterson thread manufacturer, maxi
ing a total of $1,000 spent by Null
! hall in McClave's campaign in that
year.
7 Not only did he pay all of Nc
Clave's political expenses in the
campaign, said Mulhall, but he also
bought McClave's meals and paid
his hotel bills.
In telling of his experiences in New
Jersey politics Mulhall said that in
the same year he paid George Burke,
deputy collector of internal revenue
at Paterson. a salary of $40 week
for services in behalf of McClave, and
that James Hand, city editor of the
Paterson News. now deceased, was
also on his payroll for $45 week.
Every dollar of McClave's cam
paign expenses in 1910 was paid by
me-" said Mulhall "McClave is a
con man. He had money before he
was nominated and after he got the
nomination he didn't have any"
In addition to supplying the money
FOR MeClave's campaign that year,
said Mulhall, he personally took
charge of his canvass, furnishing him
with headquarters, and put James
A. Emery. the chief lobbyist of the
n. A. M. at Washington. in charge
of the headquarters, and looked after
the distribution of money to the Re-
publican organizations and workers
en the two counties in the district.
Produces Letters.
There were several letters produced
exchanged between Mulhall and Nc |
Clave. All that the latter wrote were
on the letterheads of the McClave |
Lumber Company. of New York. In
one of these McClave asked Mulhall |
to pay bill of the Paterson News for
$12750 for advertising and printing |
Mulhall wrote back that McClave
should pay this bill, and McClave re-
piled that ne was broke and, besides
that, the work had been ordered by |
Mulhall.
After they had left the works. said
Mulhal McClave grumbled because
he had not accepted the offer and |
wanted to go back himself and get |
the money
In letter written to Mulhall after |
the campaign of 1910 McClave said
that he intended to run for Congress
again in 1918.
Ask for Collector.
In the latter year MeClave sent a
letter to Mulhall urging him to send
Il collector into Bergen County, and
naming a long list of manufacturing
concerns which, he said, could be In
duced to put up some money.
During the Mulhall testimony this
afternoon there was a commotion and
loud talking in the corridor outside
the committee room, which caused so
much disturbance that the hearing
was suspended while Senator Over
man sent a sergeant-at-arms to quiet
the noise. The sergeant-at-arms
came came back and reported that 1t
was another Senator who was making
the noise. Senator Overman himself
stopped.
4 The cause of the disturbance was
Senator MARITIME, of New Jersey. who
had met some friends outside the
door of the committee room and, be-
coming excited in his conversation,
had raised his voice to a pitch that
drowned out the witness. II. B. w.
- Plan Fight for Cannon.
How the National Association of
Manufacturers proposed to concen-
trate its energies if necessary for the
re-election of former Speaker Cannon
in the 1908 campaign, was described
in one of the first of the ''Mulhall
letters brought before the Senate
lobby committee today. Mulhall, con-
fessed lobbyist for the manufacture
ers, was about one-third through his
stack of correspondence when the
committee resumed.
z The letter bearing on Cannon was
written to Mulhall by Secretary
rSchwedtman, of the manufacturers,
'on August H. 1908, and declared all
energies would be concentrated in
cannons district 'if there is the
slightest occasion for it," A letter
from Mulhall to former Representa-
tive Loudenslager, of New Jersey,
said the manufacturers had field
workers out in the campaign in many
New Jersey. Pennsylvania and In
diana districts.
Senator Reed questioned Mulhall
about Congressman Bartholdt.
81 always understood Schwedtman
and Van Cleave looked after Bar
tholdt, and that the brewery inter-
ests helped" replied Mulhall.