The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-06-10

TORS. Vest and Cockreu. They told Of
+he governors eminent services, not
alone to the Democratic party, but TO
the state and to the west as well. The
president heard them patiently to the
end. and. turning abruptly, said:
Z" L will never appoint to office man
who has contracted for the life OF a
human being. ] can not make the ap-
pointment you desire.
THE presidents reply Senator Vest
communicated to Governor Crittenden
IN a remarkable letter. Any one VINO
knows the governor knows that his
dignity and pride are hardly less pro-
minent characteristics than his right
ness and courage. 1t was this that mad
led him to bear in silence all the
calunlny which had been heaped upon
him by his political enemies, and he
had little disposition to undertake tu
refute the SANDER then. Senator COCK
rel had been his former law partner,
and Senator Vest had been his friend
from his youth in Kentucky. They
knew as we'll as he that the poison
which had taken root in the president S
mind was absolutely groundless, and
ne felt that refutation was their oflce
and not his. In dignifled, but still in
dignant, letter he replied:
" I will never stoop to refute so oase
?. SANDER. Any honorable man would
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s,e president believes that I was guilty
az and any man who knows me knows
that I would be the last to think OF
such a thing
whether it was because the gov
ernor stood in direct line Of succession
10 one of the senatorships, or what, l
know not. But at any rate, neither OF
the Missouri senators took upon him
self the office which the governor be-
lieved was their duty, and the latter $
reply was never communicated to The
president. The result was that the
friendship Of long standing between
the senators and the governor was
abruptly broken. and the breach was
only healed at very recent day.
Eight years interviewed, and Cleveland
again returned 10 Office. The sugges-
ton was made TO the governor that he
again seek the office, and that the pres
ident be apprised Of the truth. He
spurned the suggestion. Of course. But
his action became known to his life
long friend. Secretary Carlisle, and the
latter went TO the president and told
him the whole story. The Mexican mis-
sion had already been filled, but the
next day Governor CrittenGen received
word Of his appointment as consul gen.
eral to the City of Mexico which posi-
ton he now holds.
BREAKING Up THE JAMES GANG.
DOllIlCdl
tory. Now for the inside story of the
killing Of Jesse James and the break
ing-up of his notorious gang. When
Governor Crittendep took office in 1881
the chief step he had determined on
was to rid the state of these outlaws.
Please God he said. I viii make this
state as safe to dwell in rs New York
or Massac husetts.' The undertaking
was not so easy one as it might ap-
pear. Ard what it meant to the state
Of Missouri can only be computed by
those who recall the conditions that
then existed. 1t was worth TO the
state millions Of dollars, for the day
after Jesse James died every foot of
real estate in western Missouri was
worth. well. 1 should say, at least &c
per cent. more than the day before.
THE gang, which was made up of
the James boys, the Younger brothers
and a crowd Of survivors of the old
guerrilla days, had SO long ter~orized
the western half Of the state that de-
soite its natural resources and the
cheapness Of ali sorts of property. a
northern man would about as soon
ave contemplated emigration to Pata-
COMA as to those barbarous wilds
They went through it on the railway
srain in fear and trembling, or timidIy