The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-11-30

eao goL married. thought that was
funny way to do business, and I got
very mad over it.
Whenever any allusion was made to
the Oneida Community Guiteau became
much excited. and denounced the ccm-
munity. and his fathers course In per-
suading him to 60 there.
Why do you blame your father, asked
Scoyille.
Because. replied Guiteau, II he had
been out of the way / should never
have gone under the influence of such
spiritual fanaticism in the world. The
amount of it was, to speak plainly,
that Noyes' sole idea was to get q
chance to sleep with the young girls.
Nobody else could though. An the
time was there was practically a
Shaker. I,m glad the miserable stink
ing community is broken up, and hope
the United States government will
break up that miserable Mormon COM
munity.
| 0uiteau gave his views on his fathers
religious belief. and was asked if his
father had any peculiar views on heal
ing diseases? He replied: Oh, yes;
father was an awful crank on that sub
ject.
scoville: What do you mean by
crank?
Guiteau: Well. that's sort of way
of putting it when you would say
a man is pretty badly cranked.
Guiteau, in reply to question, said
be did not believe in any religion until
his conversion; that's the word they
use. you know; which was in $50, when
1 came under the influence of the
Beecher Y. M. q. A. Beecher up to
that time was supposed to be a virtuous
man.
Guiteau told the story of his con-
nection with Oneida, his newspaper ex-
perience. and his Chicago legal adven-
lures. He was 80 days In the tombs,
in jail several times, but was never in
dicted before. In order to secure the
Chicago Inter Ocean he offered to make
one wealthy man governor of Illinois
If he would advance the money; he
made no direct promise to anybody else.
He consulted Charley Reed, who put in
$25, and said he was sorry to say that
be hadn't got it yet.
Guiteau said his idea Of buying the
Inter Ocean was to make 1t the great
organ Of the west. and to get the ad-
vertising part Of the Tribune. He sug-
gested it to some first class newspaper
men and they said 1t was a brilliant
idea, and thought 1t feasible; and If he
had got hold of the money it would
have been feasible. He consulted sew
eral parties about it, and they all
thought it grand scheme, but would
not put the money In, and 90 it fell
through. Among others he applied to
Mr.. Adams, president Of the Second
national bank, at Fresport, supposed to
be worth half q million dollars, and
told him he would make him governor
of Illinois; but Adams said he did not
want to be governor, he had been state
senator, and was man of reputation
and character. He did not pan out
very well; he didn't have any political
aspirations.
Guiteau said: wanted to get hold
of those fellows who had both aspira-
tions and money; they were the kind Of
fellows to help. Adams did not seem
to care anything about being governor;
he was man about 60 years of age,
and he preferred his old simple way of
living, and did not care to go into poll
tics. ] went into theology after that,
and that was worse than the newspaper
business.
The idea of publishing the New
York Herald Simultaneous In Chica-
go was a part of the Inter Ocean
scheme. looked about the building
and presses. consulted the managerof
the Western Union Telegraph company
and also the manager of the Atlantic
and Pacific Telegraph company, the
Atlantic&P Pacific was Just starting at the
time, and its manager was an active
young fellow who wanted to get busi-
ness. 1 said proposed to duplicate
the New York Herald dispatches, and
he thought it an immense thing and SO
it was. I wrote to James Gordon Ben
nett about the dispatches. think l
told him If he would help me out in
the matter, would consider the Herald
suit at an end.
After you gave up the newspaper en-
terprise in Chicago, what did you do
next?
That brough me down to the winter
and spring of '76. tried to pick up
the law business again, which I had
neglected, but the law business was
scarce, and If 1 found it hard to get
any. Then went out to your place in
Wisconsin. 1 worked around the
house, studied theology and the New
Testament, read the papers soaped
trees and al shat kind ct thing. In
October '76 I was in Chicago during
the Moody and Sankey meetings. at
tended the prayer meetings and servi-
ces regularly day and night, during
the time Moody was there, from Octo-
tober to January, during all that time
l was with Moody and bore an active
part. / was usher and helped around