Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-06-26
SENATOR PAYNE'S CASE.

The majority of the Senate Committee
on Privileges and Elections, among
whom are such Republicans as Logan,
Teller and Evarts, have signed report
against an investigation of the charges
Of corruption and fraud in the election OF
Senator Payne, Of Ohio, to the United
States Senate. The fact that minority
report favoring an investigation will be
present ted, signed by Hoar, OF Massa-
chusetts, and Frye, OF Maine, shows
plainly how the mouthings and rantings
of Murat Halstead OF the Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette have had their effect
on these stalwart men, and proves that
some of the bloody shirt element yet sur
vive the recent Presidential fight. Senator
Payne is heavy holder Of Standard Oil
stock, and one of the wealthiest men in
the country, and he was ably backed by
John II. Mclean OF the Cincinnati En-
quirer in his contest for the Senatorial
toga, hence the rabid opposition OF Hal
stead and the response of Hoar and Frye
to the party lash. 1t is claimed by the
advocates of an investigation that new
evidence is at hand, proving that bribery
was resorted to to elect Senator Payne,
and that it originated in the office
OF the Cincinnati Enquirer. The men
who are to give this testimony
are two former employees OF the
Enquirer who have been discharged
for cause, and who now propose to make
things hot for their recent employer
and his old friend Payne, by pretending
to expose the private business OF the
Office, with which they were intrusted, in
the belief that they were honorable men.
One OF the discharged employees is George
Mortimer Rowe, sometime city editor OF
the Enquirer, and man who owes much
to Mr.. Mclean in the way OF gratitude
for favors, and vet in fit OF anger he
proposes to do an act so infamous as to
stamp the profession OF journalism with
ineffaceable disgrace, and himself as one
to be abhorred and disbelieved by
honorable men throughout the
world. 1t is no wonder that the
majority of the committee would not hear
of such testimony, and their action
should be Il rebuke to Halstead and his
methods, ii such thing were possible.
Any man who, through anger or fancied
wrong, will deliberately violate the conf
dence of his employer, is not worthy OF
belief before any court or tribunal in the
country. To those who know Mr.. Mclean
the threat of exposure is bubble, for OF
all the men now directing metropolitan
journals, he is known to be the most re-
ticent about his business to his employees,
and would hardly make a confidant OF
such men as Rowe and his fri end. The
whole thing emanates from the poisoned
brain and malice laden heart OF Halstead
and is done to injure his contemporary in
that manner, because he cannot do so in
the open field OF journalism. Mr., Nc
Lean has scarited Halstead for years,
and latterly has crushed him by publish
ing his dastardly letter written when
Grant was storming Vicksburg, and which
alluded to Grant as drunkard and
worthless as Il commander. This is the
true inwardness OF the hostility to Me-
Lean, and it is made to do duty against
an honorable man whose only ofiense is
that he is not a Republican and cannot
be controlled by Halstead. This is all
there is of the Senator Payne case.