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association to aid ahe election fights of
congressman.
According to the letters, the associa-
tion had determined on the defeat OF
Congressman Gardner. Gardner had in
PRODUCED bill opposed by the assoela-
ton. Col. MuIhall in reporting on his
efforts to bring about Gardeners defeat,
wrote as follows:
"In my interview with Mr.. Sherman
chairman of the national Republican
congressional committee, he distinctly
told me that we ought to defeat Gardner
at the coming primary election, II pos
sible. Mr.. Sherman also stated that he
had done all he POSSIBLY could to stop
Gardner from getting those radical bills
before Congress, and he had talked with
him along party lines, but had been
unable to do anything with him"
Other letters and reports show how
Mulhall worked in New Jersey in 1908
to defeat Gardner.
Among the documents is a seven-page
letter written by Congressman Kit
fridge Haskins of Vermont to Mulhall
in May, 1908, appealing for aid in the
coming election. In letter from Chi
cago in June, 1908, during the conven-
ton, Mulhall wrote as follows TO Has
kins:
Il had Mr.. Schwedtman, at the st.
Louis office, send you $500 yesterday by
wire. In addition to this, we have writ
ten to every manufacturer in your dis
trict, and | am told we are given some
very nice letters in return. II you an
swer this, let me know if our people are
doing anything for you outside of the
money that was sent you by Mr.. Emery
and our New York Office, and this that
Mr.. Schwedtman sent you yesterday.
Concerning the efforts of the Manufae-
turers' association to aid the reelection
of Congressman John j. Jenkins OF Wis
consin, Mulhalls documents contain a
letter from Secretary Schwdetman to
Congressman Jenkins, asking the latter
to inform the association as to the
amount needed as well as to future
requirements" In a letter to Mulhall,
Schwedtman asks for definite figures for
jenkins district. Nothing but cold fig
ures can get the money in the right
way" he tells Mulhall
In a telegram to Schwedtman from
Superior, Wis. on June 20, 1908, Mulhall
said:
HHOulu duNlSe stHulHB oul man
tmeanng Jenkins) $4,000 at once. He
will need eight or ten thousand to
win"
Other letters and kilograms show that
the association thought these figures
very high. Finally Mulhall wrote:
Have given you the rock bottom fig
ures. have cut in half what his man
ayers said would be required, but be-
lieve it can be done at my figures"
Col George Pope, president of the Ma
tional Association of Manufacturers,
gave out statement Monday night, in
which he said that Col. Mulhall had been
discharged by the association for using
the association to further private ends.
Mulhall, he says, speaks falsely in
charging that the association attempted
TO dictate legislation. Col. Pope well
comes Senate inquiry and believes
that all fair-minded men will be con-
WINGED of the falsity of the Mulhall
charges. The statement begins:
"The charges of Martin w. Mulhall,
appearing in the New York World in
reference to the political activities of the
National Association of Manufacturers,
deserve attention. We shall endeavor to
see to it that not only the subject mat
ter of these charges, but the whole field
of matters relating to so-ealled labor
legislation at Washington shall receive
the fullest possible investigation and
publicity, for the subject is one of the
most vital and important now before
the American public.
"As to explanation or answer in re-
spect to particular items in the so-called
disclosures, we shall await the action of
the Senate committee, before whom Mr..
Mulhall has been subpgnaed to thee end
that under oath and before an official
body the particulars of the indictment
may be made authentic and specific. We
trust the action of that committee will
be speedy and thorough, and if desired
will cooperate with it in every way
possible to ascertain the full truth"