The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-01-18
GARRISON COMES BACK.

CLARKSoN COMES BACK.
DEs MONIES, Ia, January list.
Johns dispatch from st. Paul did not
reach Des Moines till after midnight, and
Clarkson had merely time to glance it
over. He said: at is more confession
than contradiction. He deals only in
bubbles, and craftily evades the msih
facts. He virtually rests his whole
case on the assertion that Legate's
claim to be his agent was false, and
that the Legate letters as print
ed are forgeries. He knows
that both of such assertions are
untrue He knows, too, that if what he
now asserts was not untrue, he could
get letter from Senator Plumb, vindi-
eating both himself aud Legate. The
latter came to me as st. Johns agent.
with letter from Plumb, which showed
that the Kansas Senator knew that
Legate was acting for st. John, and that
he was authorized to act for him.
Why does he not bring the letter from
Plumb to deny these facts, which /
gave to the public in the Giobe-Dem
crat interview on the 13th2 And
why does he not bring suit
for libel against myself, my
paper and the Democrat, and
so compel all the facts to be brought to
light? He knows he dare not sue for
libel, ana that he dare not let Senator
Plumb and others go on the witness
stand and, tell, under oath, what they
know. He and Others will not
voluntarily tell that which they
learned from st. John and Legate
in confidence. But in court they
would have to tell it. Why doesn't
st. John bring them there? Senator
Plumb has told Mr.. Mccullough of the
Globe-D Democrat that he has in his own
possession a letter in st. Johns own
handwriting, which would in itself
prove his corruption in the late
campaign and damn him ever
lastingly. Why doesn't he either
demand of Plumb that he
print this letter or that Plumb shall give
him a letter of vindication 2" In his
letter he says Plumb is at liberty to
print any letter he has from him
touching this matter Why doesn't he
demand that Plumb shall print any
letter that he has, whether it was in re-
gard to his deal with the Republicans or
the Democrats? His quibbling over the
Legate letters and his insinuations that
they are forgeries proves that he is toll
ing and sorrowing. He knows both that
the letters are genuine and that fac
smile of one them, printed in the
Globe Democrat of the 18th, has been
identified in Kansas as being incontes-
tibly that of Legate, the man who has
been his next friend for years, and who
represented him in his effort to sell out
to the Republicans.
st. John seeks to make prominent use
of his denial that he was at such and
that have said as to his being at
any places outside of Ohio with Legate.
his huckster, was said on Legate's
St. John was in Ohio Legate
to him and receive answers from
their meeting in places outside
given by Legate's dispatches from the
places at the time saying that he and
St John were there, and his letter after
wards saving same thing and never have
pretended to state otherwise. The
florid and hysterical manner in which
| he closes his statement, made up OF
| eyasions and mock heroics, that he
will answer to God for the truth OF
it all, is quite theatrical, but the public
would think more of his courage and
have more faith in his statement il
he did not thus refer the test Of
the truth to a tribunal not of this
world. The public would rather see the
test made in some State or district cour
of this world.
(Signed). Us. CLARKsoN.