The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-12-10
bribery, BooDL1NG AND BosH.

bribery, BOODLING AND BOSH.
When the evidence came out that
the furniture in the city and county
building had cost the taxpayers at
least one-third more than it's market
value, The Herald exposed the whole
business and presented to the public
all the testimony and indications that
exorbitant prices had been allowed
and warrants issued for their payment.
From that time to the present, The
Herald has continued to publish every
thing in connection with the scandal
that would throw any light upon it, no
matter whom it might implicate.
The only exception to this was the
printing of alleged copies of letters,
stolen from the Office of Andrews &
Co. of Chicago, which were kept for
the special benefit of his organ by the
receiver of the stolen goods, who,
doubtless, was one of the instigators
of the theft They being reserved for
that sheet, were not accessible to any
decent paper.
Thus The Herald mas given to the
public all the evidence accessible
which is germane to the subject of
the furniture scandal. This included
not only the furniture in the city and
county building, but that purchased
by the Board of Education, all of
which was bought at the figures
claimed to be exorbitant, and for al
legged bribery to obtain which Hayken,
the agent, and others have been in
dicted.
While this matter was being ex-
posed, the county selectmen, who are
officially associated with the county
attorney, were fleeing the taxpayers
in another way. The Herald, not dis
tinguishing any greater right of pres
ent than of past officials to do un-
lawful acts, exposed the excessive
charges for mileage and fees and the
extraordinary un-business-like manner
of keeping accounts by the present Sc
lectmen, who had the county attorney
for their adviser and abbetter, secure
in the assurance that he would be able
to obtain appropriations for the salary
and allowances he desired.
The answers given by the District
court to questions propounded by the
grand jury, are proof that what The
Herald claimed on that matter was
correct, and that this paper was right
in its exposures of the doings of the
mileage -grabbers and it's denunciations
Of their methods.
Tho o,-oror IF tboea 11oi1aa oa hoOd-
lers was enraged at The Herald for
performing this duty. Day after day
it Illuminated against this paper for
making those disclosures. And it APP
peared to take the ground that, be-
cause the county attorney and Sc
lectmen were engaged in a costly and
peculiar scheme to fix guilt on ex-of-
ficials in the furniture affair, that
ought to cover up, condone and make
all correct the Illegal doings of those
present officials.
That paper mixed up the two irs
with the intention to confuse the public
mind. The Herald was denounced for
its so-called attacks on those grab
bling officials And when the alleged
Hayken letters were published. in
which he made statements to his
firm that he had entered into arrange
ments with certain parties, evidently
for the purpose of making money for
himself out of Andrews & Co., the
organ of the mileage boodlers imme-
diately concentrated its scurrility,
fa1sehood and malice against The Her
aid, which was mentioned among them
by the agent whom the Tribune has
denounced as person unworthy of
belief and guilty of numerous crimes.
1t has nothing to say about others
whom the agent mentioned with
greater particularly. We do not be-
lieve they had any more completely
with his schemes than had The Herald.
We believe they are above such re-
proach. But they are not mentioned
by the organ of the mileage boodlers.
The Herald is singled out solely be-
cause it has exposed those grabbers
for whom the Tribune apologies
The organ of the mileage boedlers
even now apologies for their offenses.
And at the same time it repeats it's
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accuses this paper of rejoicing at
what it supposed to be the favorable
chance for the fraud-workers to es-
cape punishment and get away with
their booty" of having been reported
by 'the chief manipulation of the fur
niture fraud in effect as in his pay"
1t is alleged that The Herald did
open an attack on County Attorney
Whittemore" and that on day when
Hayken alleged he had arranged for
spicy editorials that The Herald had
"a vicious and scandalous article
plainly intended to intimidate wit
nesses against Hayken & Co.," etc.
Now, the person that wrote all that |
knew very well that each and every |
one of those statements was lie. |
The acrimony and malice that rankle |
in the heart which is fired by "an un-
holy ambition that it fears will not |
be gratifed, can find nothing too vile |
or Infamous to void against The Her
aid.
The Herald challenges the proof that |