The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-17
WHEN ROOSEVELT WAS
JUST CRAZY ABOUT Taft.

nor OF Indiana Mulhall also told OF
lengthy conferences with the then
Representative Jas s. Sherman In
which the Inter said the N. A. M.
should call Off the attacks being
made on Speaker Cannon by many
republican newspapers. Mulhall went
from Sherman to Senator Foraker's
ONCE where he found secret con-
ference OF republican senate leaders
in progress. At this conference It
WAS decided that no further legislA-
tion desired by President Roosevelt
was to be enacted Foraker told Null
hall that the allies" planned to de-
feat Taft for the nomination by cap
turing control OF the national commit.
tee and seating anti-Taft delegates.
To offset this Watson later told Null
hall that President Roosevelt was
moving heaven and earth. to nomi-
nate Taft and that he Roosevelt)
was fathering the attack on Cannon
In order that he could kill the speak
er's presidential boom. Watson ac-
cording to Mulhall was threatening to
take the floor OF the house and "ex.
pose the Roosevelt plot"
On May 6, 1908 Mulhall reported call
Ing on Representatives Murdock, Camp
bell, Cooper, Nelson, Alexander and
Fassett, asking them to vote against
the anti-injunction legislation then
nnndinr IYa 90
Senators Carter, Aldrich and Hemen-
way and "had pleasant chat" all tell
ing him that no unfair legislation
would go through the senate at that
session. Senator Beveridge, he wrote.
told him the N. A. M. would have to
accept an amended Sherman law, an
anti-child labor law and an antiinjunc-
tion measure.
| Alarmed over this statement Mulhall
rushed to He1nenway and reported
what Beveridge had said. He then
wrote: Senator Hemenway told me II
saw Beveridge again to tell him he
was talking through his hat and 1t was
a damned poor one at that"
Watson confirmed Hemenway's re-
port, according to Mulhall saying that
Beyeridge was crazy.
On May Z, Mulhall reported to head
quarters that he had accompanied Rep
resentative Watson to Baltimore where
/ the Indianian presided over the Method
] list conference then In session there.
Enroute he said Watson told him all
! the scare about the injunction legisla-
tion and amending the Sherman act
was gotten up by himself (Watson)
and that Speaker Cannon would cut
the head off tariff legislation and there
was no chance OF any fair legislation
that session.
On May writing to Mulhall. Secre-
tary Schwedtman remarked that Sena-
tor Beveridge's interview was wanting
and added: TT is q disagreeable feel
| ing for me to think that we have any
thing in common with men who are so
wrong on the labor question az our
friend Beveridge. However We never
know who our bedfellows are. Wat
son is man after my own heart am
we will help him in every way"
The witness said he broke the strike
OF 1900 union shoemakers in Ports
mouth, Ohio, by buying certain leaders
and members.
General Manager Bird of the N. A.
M. sent me there to break that strike"
said MuIhall Il went there and enter
tanned the leaders. For some Of them
I bought circus tickets. bought the
entire secrets Of the union for cash
and the strike was settled in three
days. I'll give full details Of this when
you get to my books and accounts af-
I ter we get through these letters.