Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-15
resent congressman. Daniel McGlli.
In Maine.


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| In Maine.
Cushing mentioned plan of Null
halls to keep Democrats from the
, polls III the Maine election.
"'The plan was to have enough
~hiskey on hand, Sept. 10. to keep a
lot of Democrats drunk" said Null
hall. 1--WE had a hall in Rockland
as Labor headquarters. / counted 81
men in that hall so heastly drunk
F.; they could not get on their feet ]
/ left because of the STENCIL"
+! Mulhall told of an agreement he
made with DIR. G.. l.. Crockett fol
work against the labor forces IN
Knox county. Crockett was paid $50
for making a speech at the Rock Ia nd
rink, Sept 6, 1906. At that time, Null
han said, Crockett held a sort Of com
mission as physician to Gempers and
he was to be paid for turning against
Gompers and making the speech al
| the rink. The speech did more harm
than good the witness added, because
| il was a "scurrilous attack" on Com
! pers and went too far. The $500 was
paid u Crockett by Fred Wight, col
and he had received a letter recently
! that confirmed the payment The
| committee ordered him To bring the
| letter from his home at Baltimore.
| Mulhall said Cushing told him on q
visit to Rockland that $4,000 had been
| raised for the Maine fight around
Boston among the manufs eturers and
others.
Mulhall declared that the fight fer
Littleheld and against Gompers had
come TO be considered a national
fight by the National Association of
Manufacturers and for that reason
such a large sum had been raised
He thought 100000 had teen spent in
the Littlefeld campaign in Maine, in
1896. c. G. Cox, former treasurer of
the Massachusetts State committee.
had told him. he said. of the raising
of $1,000 for this purpose in and about
Boston
New Jersey and PennsyIvania.
With the conclusion of the Little
field fight. Sept. 10. Muihall said he
was shifted TO New JERSEY and took
charge of the manufacturers fight IN
the campaigns IA the 9TH and Gth New
Jersey Districts and in the nth Pa
District. In supporting DR.. Cobbe N
the 18th Pa. District, MulhaIl wrote
TO James S. Sherman, late vice pres
ident and then chairman of the Re-
publican Congressional committee
asking for help To secure the endorse
ment of the Lincoln party in his dis
trict In this letter. dated Oct. Is, 1906
M ulhalt asked Mr. Sherman to use his
influence to this end with Charles
Emery Smith. former postmaster gen
eral and also asked that Cong. JAS.
Il. Watson of Indiana and John T.
McDonough. ex-seeretary of state Of
New York. be sent into the nth Dis
trict for campaign purposes.
Another letter to Sherman on the
same date again urged him TO send
prominent speakers into the 18th Dis
trict
Mitchell and Gempers spoke here,
last evening, and the effect of their
| speeches is felt and will be felt
throughout both of the Districts" said
| the letter. IF you send MeDonough
| here, with the workers that | already
have here We are sure to give them
run for their money"
The committeeman laughed when
Mr.. Sherman,s reply to the Mulhall
| letters appeared 1t was written from
the headquarters of the Republican
| committee to Marshall Gushing ut
Washington and enclosed the envef-
opes in which Mulhalrs two letters
had been contained.
sThese were delivered to the Dem
ocratic Congressional committee at
Broadway and 9th street." said Mr.
Sherman. The people over there were
good enough TO send them right over
here by messenger without opening
them. Let me suggest that YOU at
wise Mulhall at once of our correct
address"
Did Mr. Sherman know that you
were being paid for your work by the
National Association of Manufactur-
ers?" asked Senator Reed
"Oh, yes" said Mulhall II took or
ders from the National committee also
as much as from Mr.. Cushing
In a letter to Gushing, Mulhall asked
him to get Mr.. Sherman to have Speak
err Cannon write to Hon. VIM. Connolly
to get him to help the candidate in the
10th Pennsylvania district.
Inc nSHt III the WflkeSDdffe. IA, dis
trict in which DR.. r. J. Cobleigh was
the Republican candidate. was the subject
of several emphatic letters in the Null
hall correspondence. In one to Mr.. c.
dated Nov. 4. 1906 Mulhall complained
about the total lack of nlouerfl campaign
methods in behalf of Cobleigh.
Gle has placed his campaign in the
hands of an egotst here by the name of
DR.. Lake" 1t said, land all Lakes boasts
about doing is his editorial writings for
the several country newspapers i'll and
around Wilkesbarre. The thousands OF
circulars sent here by the Republican
congressional committee are still lying
on the floors of the county committee
rooms and not one of them has been put
out. Besides this, Cobleigh bought M
lot of delegates at the June convention
for certain prices. ant. those he. has not
paid or kept his promises with them"
The same day. Mulhall wrote TO DR.
Coblegh, declaring he had done all that
mortal man could do to try to win this
| district but complained about the lact
of cooperation on the part of Cobleigh
Il feel that it is almost an outrage thai
under these conditions this district shoule
| be lost to the Republican party. ne
| urate ssfor tberp uyag a sire thing herd