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LOBBY LEADS
TO TAmmANY
Nu|ha|i Tells Of Attempt to
See Murphy.
MACvEAGH AS MUGWUMP
Taft Cabinet Officer Scored In Letter
by Former Representative Over
Tariff Commission Fiuht


Tariff Commission Fight.
Washington, July "a. - Martin M.
| Mulhall, former lobbyist for the Ma
| tional Association of Manufacturers,
told the senate lobby committee that
| in November, 1909, 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
| seventy-two organizations of manu-
| facturers in New York state, "a con-
| trolling influence in the great fight
for governor
II am anxious to meet Mr.. Murphy
and other leaders of your party" he
wrote, ITO demonstrate to them that
the business men of New York would
have given you better support in the
last fight if they had more time to
know you better, and that there are
hundreds of manufacturers throughout
| the state of New York who believe
that you would be a splendid candidate
for governor
up correspondence with a great num-
ber of the secretaries of those organi.
cations this winter, and would be
greatly pleased if could keep in touch
with you by letter or otherwise. II
would feel myself honored if / was
counted among your hustling political
friends
Senator Overman, the chairman, and
Senators Reed and Walsh gave Null
hall an unusually close examination
upon the Battle letter.
''You wanted to get Murphy to sup
port him." he was asked "Yes, sir"
was the reply.
did you see Murphy?" mo, sir"
Mulhall swore that the association
thought Battle "a clean open and
above-board politician" He was law
partner of Senator O'Gorman's and
was honest and clean in every re-
spect.'
Former Secretary of the Treasury
MacVeagh was dubbed "mugwump"
in letter from former Representative
Watson to Mulhall on Sept. Is, 1909.
Watson. evidently trying to obtain a
place for F. c. Schwedtman, secretary
of the manufacturers, on the tariff
board, wrote that President Taft was
MacVeagh.
sf he were Republican We might
reach him, wrote watson. but he Isl
a 'mugwump' and am not hopeful of
final success, for l will swear I never
on earth knew what to do with a
'mugwump,' inasmuch as I have no
right to kill him.
Mulhall, writing to Bird, general
manager of the manufacturers, advis
ed him to be ''in good fighting shape
on Sept. -, to visit the White House
at Beverly with me-
Mulhall referred to H. E. Miles ac-
tivities in Washington for tariff COM
mission miles was leader of the fac
tion of the association that had low
tariff proclivities and the correspond |
ence referred to a letter written by
Watson.
watson wrote to me about Miles,
said Mulhall, because Miles got so
obnoxious to Speaker Cannon that the
speaker threatened to denounce him
on the floor of the house"
Mulhall asserted that the manufact- /
urers frequently used the franks OF
Representatives McDermott, of Illi-
nois; John J. Gardner, of New Jersey, |
and Fairchild, of New York. Mulhall
said that j. T. Bird, on behalf of the
National Council for Industrial De-
fense, gave him $4,000 to defeat Will
liam Hughes, Democratic candidate for
congress in the Sixth New Jersey dis
trict Mulhan succeeded in getting
Frank Hubschmitt Socialist, to run
against Hughes. He denied that he
paid any money to Hubschmitt di- |
rectly.
H. E. Loudenslager wrote to Kirby, |
Nov. Il: 81 am inclined to think many
people of the middle west and far west
feel that the last revision of the tariff
was not radical enough" Something |
ought to be done to correct" this i'm.
preston, asserted Loudenslager.
Mulhall criticised Frank Hitchcock
and Representative Herbert Parsons
for "toadying' to the labor vote and
said politicians were generally anger.
ed because of pro-labor speech made
by President Taft in Chicago.
Oct %, Kirby, characterized Presi. |
dent Tafts labor speech as evidence
of a "batledore and shuttlecock pol |
ICY" He intimated that the National
Association would undertake reprisals.