The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-12-06
Guitteau's Testimony.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.-Guitteau said to
day in his testimony tina. his idea of buying
the Int, Ocean was to make it q great organ
of the West, to get the advertising patronage
of the Tribune. He suggested it to some
first-class newspaper men, and they said it
was a brilliant idea, and that it WIS feasible.
If l could have got holi Of money it would
have been feasible. | consulted several par
ties about 1t, and they all thought it a yra d
scheme, but would not put money into it. So
it Tell through. Among Others l applied to
was Mr.. Adams, President of the Second
National Bank of Freeport, supposed to be
worth a half million dollars. | told him |
would make him. Governor of Illinois, and
he said he did not van to be Governor. He
had been State Senator, and WAS a man of
reputation and character, but did not pan out
very well. At my interview with him he did
not have any political aspirations. l wanted
to get hold of those fello VS. who hal both as
p'rations and money. They were the kind
of fellows to help me. Adams didn't seem
w SslS M W oS'eV oCihS I1C
was a man about sixty years of age, and he
preferred his old simple way of living, and
didn't care about going iuto politics. l also
consul ed my cd friend Charlie Reed on the
matter. l believe he put twenty-five dollars
into i. which he has not got back yet
(iausllinD. | went into theology after that,
and that was worse than newspaper business.
The ides OF publishing the New York Herald
simultaneously in Chicago was a part Of my
Inter Ocean scheme. l looked about for
building ard presses. l consulted the man.
ager of the W. U. Telegraph Go. and also tie
of the A. Il P. Telegraph Co The
& Pacific was Just starting at this
time and its manager was an active young
man who also wanted to get business. l said
[ proposed to duplicate the New York Her.
aid dispatches and he said he thought it was
immense thing, so it was. We wrote to
james Gordon Bennett about the dispatches.
[ think | told him if lie helped me out in the
l would consider the Herald suit at an
end.
After 5ou gave up the newspaper enterprise
in Chicago what did you do ?
That brought me down to the winter and
spring of IS. l tried 70 pick up a law busi-
aw business was scarce aud | found it. hard
o get any, chen l went to SOME p'ace in Wis
,ol silt. | worked a. ouni the house, studied
.heoiogy aud the new testament, soaped trees
and that kind of WTrl- tn np,nhsr '7t I ~oc
II Chicago duriug the Moody and Sanky re-
'ivals. | attended prayer meetings and SCI
vices regularly day and night three
months. Moody was there from o.
.ober to January. During all that time |
as with Moody and bore all active part. l
Was assisting and helped around in a general
way. | spoke at prayer meetings frequently.
in November, during Moody's
work, | heard Kitlridge, Of Chicago, pastor
Of the Third Presbyterian church, say in ref
ference to the text, "If l will" he meaning
John, "tarry till | come, what is thai to these
brethren ?" | have to confess as a man of
Iod that knew lot W hat that meant at that
There was much expectation in The
public mind that the Saviour might soon sp-
'ear and the idea has pervaded the peoples
minds ever since that set my brain whirling
md | began to investigate ii. l went to work
n the Chicago public library and l. dug out
ny treaties on the second coming. As n re-
ult of that investigation l went to work and
wrote my lecture. My idea Of that lecture is
'rlefy this, that the second coming of Christ
eli the destruction Of Jerusalem in
LIQUIDS directly over Jerusalem that il was
n every spirit of the world, and that the de-
~truction Of Jerusalem was the outward sign
his coming. | hold that during all these
ighteen centuries the churches all have been
II error, supposirg the second coming of
ihlist to be i'll he future. That 10 the prop
sition Oh which my lecture was written and
hat was the result Of three or four years in
estigation Oh that subject. The witnes.
related his various failures in The deliv-
ry of his lecture in Chicago, Jackson, Kali
Racine, Ann Arbor, Detroit, Ypsi-
anti, I oledo, Buffalo, Washington, Roches-
er, Syracuse, Albany, Troy and elsewhere.
lie frequently laughed as he repeated SOME
f the humorous incidents of his failures.
I~ncendiary Work:
CHICAGO, Nov. pa special from Deca.