San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-10-31

| tee on the King ticket. ! don't remem-
| Der if Mr.. IOakum was member or not,
| bdt think he was present at all meet
| ingS. The greatest difficulty to the ticket
was the candidacy of Judge King, be-
| cause he was going TO continue Ioakum
as receiver Yoakum asked me if |
didn't think he ought to contri-
butte some money. | told him
yes, and he gave me S2,OC).
He told me he wanted $500 distributed
among certain parties. There never was
a 5000 assessment made on Judge King;
In that campaign Goakum said he would
attend to the D. A. p. employees. They
had a number of hands at work ba lasting
the road. They were not paid by, the
committee. His subscription was not kept
secret from Jose CaSSiano and Thad
Smith. No receipt was asked for the
1900. He said that he and Mcnamara
were both contributing that money. Re-
garding those receipts for s., SO and S3-OJO,
| don't remember how long, some time
during the investigation though, | asked
Cooper to show those receipts to ac-
count for the deficiency Of this mon
ey. He showed them to me- ] took
memorandum of them, | told
Yoakum that Cooper held his receipts and
that probably he had overlooked the
matter or settled the amount in some way,
and that he had better make it good; that
Cooper seemed to be determined in the
matter and would sue him for damages for
his prosecution. He said his receipts were
good for their face value and he would
take them up. He asked my advice and
told him to go before the master all pay
the amount and then | would go with
him to PaSchal and the charges would be
dismissed and then probably Cooper
would say no more about it. He then
said that he would like to see
the receipts. | told him COOer was in
New Orleans. When Cooper returned |
rang up Yoakum and told him that they
seemed to be his. | afterward got the
receipts from Newton and showed them to
him. He said that the receipts were not
his. In the receipt signed b. +. y he
said that he never shaded an r., like
that one. He said that the B. f. Goakum'
receipt looked like his but it was not. He
said he thought it was too light He wanted
me to take the receipts to Mr.. Houston,
as he was his friend and attorney. |
tod him would but if they were forger-
les. that did not think it necessary to
talk over the matter. took the receipts
10 Mr.. Houston next morning. | then
said that if they were all right that the
matter had better be settled and no
further investigation gone into. GOakum
gave many reasons why the receipts were
not his. Mr.. YOakum asked advice in
| the matter and NJ. Houston said he saw no
| OIutl way W w IldI' II NOOptl plOuuC'd
| the receipts. than to prosecute him for
both forgery and perjury. ! told him
| that was representing Mr.. Mcnamara
| solely and wanted to protect MIN from
liability. Mr.. Houston said he would
cover it from the IS. A. P. funds. As to
| the charges against Cooper, that was a
matter between he and the state
| Some papers were shown in court. said
to be certain releases. Mr.. BergStrOm
said they were filed after the receipts
| were declared fOrgerieS.
you, Mr.. Newton, objected to the re-
| CeiptS being shown until Mr.. Cooper 5
/ criminal trial came off. | acted in the
matter purely from friendship TO IOa-
| KUN and to protect Mcnamara.
| The witness was here turned over to
Mr.. Houston, who received the following
| answer.
| "YOakum never paid you s. 900 in the
| San Antonio club. Mcnamara nor
| EOakum never gave me 5000 in
| their lives. In October 1890 GOa-
KUN never gave me 81, 800 in the rear OF
the Pacific Express office About that
time DR.. Graves when he was with GOa-
| KUN. did contribute some money, but
don't remember of his haVlag given me
| money under those circumstances. | dc
not remember that YOakum gave me
5000 during that campaign. | die
not say | was glad to get the
money then, as Callaghan was going
| to leave. We had several conversations
about the expenditure of the campaign
| funds. The executive committee never
made proposition to GOakum and Mac
namara, at least not through me. don
remember of any trade. u don't remem
| Der OF any proposition wherein he was Il
| give me s. 900 A petition had been on
10 get Judge Walthal to run for the Office
of District Judge bat | do not know tina
it was held over the heads of the receiver
to get money
| Mr.. Houston wanted to know wher
the first trade was made and what tn
compensation was To be between Mr.
BergStrOm and the receivers. The queS
ton was objected to by Mr.. Newton
Judge Fiemming gave his opinion over
, ruling the objection.
5000 was the amount agreed upon.
never made an agreement for 5000. MI
| NOakum made such a proposition, bu
| after consulting Judge tyson, | refused
| Originally, | opposed to Judge kine
" When | first showed NOakum those re
| CeiptS. | met him on the side wall
and walked into Brady'S saloon He di
not say in your office that ii | went befOr
PaSchal and had those cases dismissed,
: would tHrn over TO him the receipts
Your statement to that effect is part
= false. 1t was not said in those exact word
4 1t is true in substance about going
PaSChal but not in turning over the r.
- ceiptS. | remember that we discussed IL
matter and | remember saying that
~ thought | thought some writing WI
" erased on the paper. | think so yet.
- said. in speaking about that boo
that if Cooper had it | was g
Il ing to see it.. inferred fro
IL what Mr. Cooper said when asked hi
~ about that book. that it was not los
When | asked Mr.. Cooper if he really ha
.o the book, he smiled and said that is a
" right Yoakum said that he would NJ
compromise himself in these notes,
they were not his. The reason you wan
ed to give release was that the compat
!. was willing to give up that amount to g
- rid of the affair and settle all petty diff
M culties. l have read those receipts, b.