The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-15

firm you called him my friend?'"
You said, My friend Cahoon will
fetch the others. Who did you mean
by the others
Mr. Morris and Mr.. Bamberger."
And you meant by that that he was
going to fetch them up to your room?"
Yes"
"And that IS the innocent interpre-
tation you put upon it?"
Perfectly straight and true one"
You were so guileless, SO unSus-
picious, SO innocent in nature that the
phrase My friend Cahoon will fetch
mind and you seek to convey it to
others the idea that he was going to
go and get them and fetch them UP to
your room?'
THAT is right, SIR"
I've will certainly arrange for the
balance of the county before L get
through here What do you mean by
saying that this Dutchman never
counts chickens before they are
hatched?'
why, judge, that is general
phrase, you know. They say, you
know, that they never count chickens
until they are Matched. l would not
say that L had a contract until l
had it,
You meant substantially that these
men were not going to get the start
of Martin Hayken?"
mo, SIR
Did you NEAR that? Did you mean
that you were going to make yourself
perfectly solid and sure of your foot
ing before you went further?'
No; did not mean that at all.
Just meant it as a little poetical
phrase that you injected into your let
ter to make it pleasant reading?'
No, SIR
What did you mean by chickens
picking through the SHELF y
We'll, the prospect was that l
would sign the contract by Sunday"
MATCHING CHICKENS.
Now, is it not a fact that you re-
ferred to Mccormick of the city COM
mittee and Colonel Nelson of the
to do with this contracting, that they
were picking through the she'll, and
that you were going to open?'
mo- they were no chickens, judge"
''You do not consider them chick
ens?'
NO"
''They were a little too shrewd for
you?"
II cannot understand
No"
Were you working on the city COM
mittee business at that time?''
II presume [ was"
Linn was on the city committee.
was he not?"
Yes, sill "
"You desired his influence"
Certainly, sir
You informed your firm, did not
you, that it was necessary for them to
treat him pretty nice?''
Yes, sir: that is right"
80 as to induce him to stay with
us@"
NOW, with regard to this big crank.
Colonel Nelson?' ="
Yes, sir"
You say that his conduct did not
affect you to any particular extent
when you left the ROOM
"Well, l even have found"
But answer my question: Mr. Hay
ken"
No"
Now you are reveling in enjoyment
there in answering my questions, but
1 would like you TO confine yourself to
direct answers
ut did not, sir"
TT did not affect you to any par
ticular extent?"
Did not you go to work after that
to assiduously smooth him DOWN.
NO"
Did not go after that and approach
him in the most cat-like manner"
mo-
Did not you work him with all the
subtle craft in your nature"
mo. SIR
Did not you bring to bear the long
years of experience that you have had
in manipulating men?
mo. sir"
Did you not so inform your firm?'
NO sir
And didn't you so arrange matters
that you had it fixed so that if the
process would not avail that
the rest of the board of education
would set down on him?'
mo, SIR
Did not do that?"
mo, SIR"
Did not you so inform your firm?"
mo. sir
Did not you use toward him the pol
icy of first conciliating, if possible, and
falling in that to crush him?"
Did not you so substantially inform
your firm?'
mo, sir"
Did not you state to him that what
ever this man might think, you had
perhaps I did say that he would
eventually turn and be in our favor.
Yes. sir
You were satisfied that Martin Hay
ken was sufficient to manipulate and
control that old crank?'
Yes, SIR
Did you manipulate and control him
NO. sir
so you were mistaken with regard
tess to your appreciation Of your aOiii-
Eyes, sir"
Did you ever think you had mis-
taken your vocation?"
II think 1 did"
There was a time when you thought
that you were born for politics. was not
there?"
Yes, sir
when you imagined that you your
self ought to fill an aldermanic chair?'
Yes, sir"
THAT was forced into your mind by
your success in manipulating people
here in Salt Lake, was it not?"
Yes, SIR
You had struck here a pretty soft
thing?"
No"
1T was not?'
NO"
ALDERMANIC ASPIRATIONS.
after you had been so successful in
your schemes here, then the thought
came into your mind that you were oc-
cupying altogether too low a station in
life and that Martin Hayken instead of
for $2,720 a year as the manip-
ulator for A. H. Andrews & Co., OF
Chicago, should be filling the place of