The Washington herald., 1913-09-13
WATSON Denies
MULHALL Charge
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+. of L. as legislation which the Fedora
ton had worked for.
Referring to these measures. he said: 81
never discussed these matters with the
n. A. NJ. officials. / did not know how
they stood on them and 1 don't know
their opposition to the anti-Injunction bill
and proposed Sherman law amendments,
and still am
The witness denied emphatically that
he had been instrumental in packing
the labor and judiciary committees with
friends of the n. A. NJ, or that he had
kept George A. Pearre, of Maryland,
father of an anti-injunction bill for which
the n. A. NJ. chased him out of public
office. from the Judiciary Committee. He
told of a speech made by Pearre support
ing the anti-injunction bill.
you don't need TO tell the sun to shine,
and you don't need TO teach a canary bird
to sing, and you don't need TO tell Uncle
Joe Cannon who not to put on a COM
mittee after a speech like that" he de-
clared.
Speaker Cannon. Mr.. Busbey, and
Asher Kinds always made up the COM
mittees of the House. Sometimes the
Speaker would ask me what I thought
about this man or that He would not
tell me why he wanted to know, and 1
would not inquire
Watson was stuck when 1t came to ex-
planning the BLACKLIST offered by Null
hall, and on which appears the names of
six Republicans who fought bitterly
against the Cannon rules. He admitted
that these names were in his handwriting
and could not explain why he had written
the list. although he denied that it was a
blacklist
1T is inconceivabIe," he said. that I
should give Mulhall a blacklist. or put on
paper what the National Associa ton of
Manufacturers must have known with
out being told-the men who were oppos-
ing their measures. Such a thing would
be too grotesque to consider. This list
certainly is in my handwriting, but /
have no recollection of it, and i have
no idea why it was written and how it
came into Mulhalrs possession" The list
contains the names of Gardner of Massa-
chusetts, Haugen Of Iowa. and Nelson,
Lenroot, and Morse of Wisconsin.
MuIhaII Activity Explained.
Explaining Mulhalrs activities in the
Indiana Gubernatorial campaign in 1905,
Watson said:
"MuIhaII came to me with a letter of
introduction from Vice President Sher-
man. At that time the labor organiza-
tions were against me. was blacklisted,
and at every labor meeting in the State
speeches were being made against me.
Mulhal said he would be able TO do one
of two things TO help me out-either he
would bring the labor organizations
around to my side or he would organize
behind me the unorganiZed labor of the
State.
when he told me this. l said: Well.
you're just the man l want You can't
start in too soon for me if YOU can ac-
complish this. 1t is just the work i
need most. As a matter for fact, want
ed q lot more than 1 ever got
"MulhalI says he collected about 81, ,0oo
for me in that campaign. He didn't col
lect a penny. He says he received prom
ises from a number of manufacturers TO
contribute TO my campaign. AS a mat
ter of facT, not one of them contributed
or promised to contribute. Glenn Stude-
baker. Pat OBrien. Mr.. Oliver. and all
of those South Bend manufacturers he
mentioned have denied his story in toto,
as far as il concerns them
He said the first propc sition in connec-