Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-19

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| paign buying votes: that he had double
| crossed McGillieuddy. now the congress
man; that during the campaign in ques.
| ton he was into four distinct dough
| bags: that, all in all, he had at various
| times received and spent thousands OF
| dollars to influence elections; that rum
| and Doodle any way were the instruments
| most generally used in all Maine cam
paigns.
Market Value Of Votes.
"How much did the votes cost?' ne
was asked, after the first spasm of as
constituent at the GOODNESS of the admis-
sion had died out.
"Oh, from 50 to $40 apiece" said
the doctor. that. was the current, the
| usual figure
But he did something else besides
confess on his own account.
Before he had finished he brought
about every notable in Maine and
even in the national field into his list.
He said his fight against MeGilli-
cuddy and for Littlefield was carried
on with the full approval of Bryan.
and that Bryan himself told him that
he guessed the country would not suf-
| fer any loss if the Lewiston man was
, left at home.
That William Randolph Hearst also
had finger in the pie, and that the
only reason he did not carry the
Hearst Presidential campaign forward
was because they could not agree over
the financial part of it.
AS for Mulhall himself, Crockett de-
clares he was a joke. HE may have
fooled some people in Ohio and in
Pennsylvania, but Knox county was
| too deep fer him. We met him at
every turn; he did not even know the
rudiments of the game. All he knew
was how to spend money.
"At one stage he did bring $4,000
cash into the campaign. which pro-
| voked little enthusiasm. but he had
| no special skill. Why the one job he
| was particularly proud of was that
McGillicuddy men so drunk they could
not go to the polls to vote.
| How he may have made record in
| cheapness because he used hard cider
mixed with alcohol for the purpose,
but Steve Chace of this town. who is
now in Seattle, and who never made
much pretence of being d politician
got 1923 drunk down at the old fish
house in a mayoralty campaign, u.s.
ing snake root in a cheap whiskey
From 1900 to 1906 / was a member
of the executive committee of the
Democratic state committee. and based
on, my sorganiza ton work the State
COMMITTEE received in 1904, $5000t
from the National committee to be
used for Parker Fifteen hundred oil
this was allotted to Knox county
which in the presence of Cyrus w
Davis / turned over to Clarence c
Paul of the Democratic county com
mittee. The whole of the money came
through Senator Smith"
/ was engaged on the side also In or
ganizing a resubmission movement
which was mighty popular. the frs
contribution and nearly all OF them
coming from the liquor men. In tina
campaign Eliot M. Benson of Bar Har
tor did the field work. The first man II
Maine to give S. to the mevemen
was Jobe Spear of Thomaston.
| 1t was a nice little campaign, will
money on hand. and as ! always look
cd out for myself you hardly need men
ton me in it.
Knox county politics have Away
been bit peculiar. ! will not at
tempt to apologize for them now: run
and DOODLE have always figured, an
when it wasn't making men drunk Ii
the fish house it was somewhere else.
II have always made the canyasses,
he said, pulling out stack OF sheet
with names written down, 'and al
these men marked doubtful meat
purchasable. We do not like to use tn
ether word, but that Is what
means. ] made canvass OF this s.r
| for the Democratic National commit
tee and on it they sent us $4,000 10
the campaign.
I'VE did not do much beating abou
the bush and prices did not vary much
they ran from 81 to $40 per man.
Il 1--WE had lots of help in the anti McGii
licuddy- Gompers fight. One OF our bca
i men was a National A. f. l.. organize
who took his orders direct from Mulhai
, also helped in bringing Thomas J. Ly
ons forward. He was Democrat, bn
ran as a Republican for the Senate. an
Gov. Cobb afterward made him labo
commissioner He Is now deputy.
zone of the complications of the hou
D was when Mcf;illicuddy- sent me 500 az