Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-07-23
MULHALL TRIED TO
MEET c. F. MURPHY
Was Interested in Candidacy of
George G. Battle for
Governor.

WASHINGTON, July 23.-Martin
M. Mulhall told-the Senate lobby COM
mittee today that in November 1903,
he tried to meet Charles F. Murphy,
leader of Tammany Hall, in behalf
of the candidacy of George Gordon
Battle for governor of New York.
Mulhall wrote Battle that there were
~ organizations of manufacturers in
New York State, "a controlling in
fiuence in the great fight for gov
ernor."
II am anxious to meet Mr.. Murphy
and other leaders of your party to
demonstrate to them that the bust
ness men of New York would have
given you better support in the last
fight if they had had more time to
know you better, and that there are
hundreds of manufacturers through
out the State of New York, who be-
lieve that you would be a splendid
candidate for governor" he wrote.
with your permission, / shall open
up correspondence with a great num-
Der of secretaries of those organi-
cations this winter and would be
greatly pleased if | could keep in
touch with you by letter or other
wise. / would feel myself honored
If l was counted among your hustl-
ing political friends"
Chairman Overman and Senators
Reed and Walsh gave Mulffall an
unusually close examination upon
the Battle letter.
you wanted to get Murphy to
support him?" he was asked.
Yes sir"
did you see Murphy"
mo, sir.
With three-fiths of the Mulhall let
tiers in the record, the Senate lobby
commmittee today hurried along in
an effort to finish the reading by to-
morrow.
The committee decided to expedite
things as much as possible by putting
scores Of letters in the record with
out specific identification. In answer
TO a blanket question by Senator
Reed, Mulhall swore to the authen-
ITCHY of the whole correspondence
turned over to the committee.
Former Secretary MacVeagh was
dubbed a mugwump in a letter from
former Representative Watson to
Mnlhall on September Is. 1909 Wat
son evidently trying to land Secre-
tary Schwedtman, of the manufac-
turers, on the tariff board, wrote that
President Taft was appointing only
men recommended by MacVeagh.
IF he were a Republican we might
reach him. wrote Watson, of Mac
Veagh. but he is a mugwump and /
am not hopeful of final success, for |
VIII swear / never on earth knew
what to do with a mugwump, mas
much as l have no right to kill him.
Mulhall. writing to General Man
ager Bird, of the manufacturers, adj
vised him to be in good fight.
Ing shape on September IL to visit
the White House at Beverly with me-"
In November, 1909, Mulhall wrote
of trips to Massachusetts to help
Governor Draper" who had incurred
the enmity OF the labor unions on
Recount of mis- veto of an eight-hour
bill. He wrote Schwedtman 1t would
not be hard to get the knights of
Labor and the American Federation
of Labor fighting to the advantage
of the manufacturers.
In November Mulhall wrote
Sehwedtman, complaining that Bird
twas more boss of the organiza-
tion than Charley Murphy is in Tam
many Hail." Mulhall added that in
the days of Van Cleave things were
done sin the open" and that when
Bird came in he noticed return to
the "secretive'' methods that pre-
coded Van Cleave.
'What do you mean by 'secretive'?"
asked Chairman Overman.
"No letter writing, gumshoeing
around and keeping everything I'M
der cover" replied Mulhall.