Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1913-07-16

from the National Association of
manufacturers, through Cushing.
You bribed these men to vote
against Hughes 2" asked Senator Cum
Minis.
don't know whether you can call
IL bribery or not-they were paid a
weekly salary. That money was spent
IN legitimate work-that's what they
called it. 1t has been done by both
parties for years"
Efforts to connect Senator McComas
on labor legislation were further
shown by another letter, December Is,
1904, apparently to Mulhall, and which
he said was written by Cushing 1t
urged Mulhall to deal with McComas
wanted a federal judgeship then in
prospect.
Other letters from Cushing to Null
hall developed the extent to which Null
hall was working with various political
factions in Maryland, either trying to
select winner" or abate McComas'
activity in support of his eight-hour
Dill. Many of the men he mentioned
In his letters as opposed to the eight
hour bill, In the associations cam
paign against that measure, were
strictly honest in that position" he
thought
Others pretended to be honestly OPP
posed to it because you paid them to 2"
suggested Senator Walsh.
Eyes, that's it,
Spies on Labor Men.
In report February 5, 1905, upon
political developments in Baltimore,
Mulhall quoted George B. Squires, a
bookkeeper for the American Fedora
ton Of Labor, on the support the labor
forces were giving McComas and the
fight they were making for anti-in-
junction and eight-hour legislation.
Gushing had instructed him to keep
in touch with Squires" to find out what
the American Federation of Labor was
doing.
The campaign in support of Repre-
sentative Charles B. Littlefeld in
Maine was taken up in other letters.
Warned to Fight Warily.
The Cushing letter added: "You
want to manage it somehow that while
Stone CORNER Republican collector OF
the port of Baltimore) may think you
are warming up to him, it will be the
fact in reality that he is warming up
to you"
Several letters related to the activi-
ties of Mulhall and Cushing in the po-
litical situation in Maryland during
1905. In one it was set forth that Carl
G. Downs desired to reorganize the Re-
publican party in Maryland with the
aid Of Williams, General Gary, Bona
parte and GARRISON" all Maryland Re-
publicans, ''in an effort to show the
manufacturers and others that the Re-
publicans of Maryland are united
enough and can win"
The association got after Repre-
sentative Frank G. Wachter of Mary
land, Mulhall said.
''Wachter was not up to mark in
Washington. He lodged too many
votes on labor bills said Mulhall
Aided by "Boss" Barnes.
The inquiry shifted to Albany, N. Y.
The introduction of bill in the New
York legislature by Senator Page,
which would have placed the burden
of proof upon the defendant in cases
of injury from negligence, was dis
cussed.
Gushing sent me to oppose the bill,
as something that ought not to pass at
that time" said Mulhall
Senator Cummins asked whom Null
hall saw in Albany when he worked
against the bill.
"You didn't have to see many peo-
pie in Albany at that time to stop a
bill of that kind. l saw Boss Barnes"
Through him you defeated the
bill?"
Il believe / did. / knew him for
many years."