The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-28
NO ILL-FEELING CREATED.

the case being tried before Judge Ro-
lapD.
NO ILL-FEELING CREATED.
The following citizens and taxpayers
put in an affidavit setting forth that
little if any ill-feeling or prejudice to-
ward the WaterWOrkS company was en-
gendered through the publications in
the Ogden Standard, and giving as
their opinion that the defendants could
secure a fair and impartial trial in the
state court:
Fred ]. Kiesel, Theo. Schansenbach,
]. F. Marshall, John Scowcroft, D. G.
MCKINLEY. John A. Boyle, H. G. Bige-
low, A. E. Wetherby, Thos. G.. Burt,
A. T. Wright, L L. Clark, David Eccles,
Thomas D. Dee, Joseph Clark, J. c.
Armstrong, A. McLaren Boyle, Thos.
J. Stevens, ]. M. Browning, John S.
Lewis, AID Kuhn, G. L. Becker, T. B.
Lewis.
DEFENDANTS ATTORNEY FA-
vORED ROLAPP.
Nathaniel Montgomery, DR.. E. NJ.
Conroy and Joseph Hall deposed that
they were delegates to the convention
to nominate a judge for the Second
judicial district, and at such conven-
ton a. G. Horn, one of the attorneys
for the defendant company, made an
eulogistic speech in which he nomi-
mated H. H. Rolapp for the Office.
EVANS WAS FOR ROLAPP.
Nathaniel Montgomery deposed that
during the fall of 1895, he attended a
Democratic rally at North Ogden, when
Hon. David Evans urged the electors
to vote for H. H. Rolapp for district
judge, referring to him in the most
complimentary terms.
Horny CTviIIio1, donoeoJ +1,o+
the fall of 1895, he was the chairman
of the Democratic campaign committee
for Weber county and had immediate
supervision of the Democratic cam
palgn for the election of a district
judge; that Hon. David Evans, of coun-
sci for defendants, attended several
meetings and urged the electors to vote
Tor II. H. Rolapp for judge, because of
his honesty, integrity and sobriety.
ROWE PARTICULARIzES.
Regarding the Standard publications
w. H. Rove, for the defendants, put in
an affidavit as follows:
That on the evening of the Goth of De-
cember 1897, in the mayors office in Og-
den City, in the presence of L. r. Rogers,
CnafleS PulVer, a reporter for the Ogden
Daily Standard, and David Evans the
mayor, III. H. Spencer, said in my pres
ence and in the presence of the others
above named, that he had paid money out
OF the mayors contingent fund to secure
the publication of articles relating to the
WaterWorks company in the Ogden Daily
Standard, Evening Press and X-Rays,
newspapers published in ogden City dur
ing the campaign carried on for the pur-
pose of carrying $25000O bonds, by election,
Tor the purpose of putting in a Compel
tive system of waterworks in ogden City,
and that money was likewise paid out of
said mayors contingent funds to the Og-
cen Daily Standard for the purpose of
printing and circulating cartoons that ap-
peared in their paper.
l further state that in the issue of the
Ogden Daily Standard dated Dec 81 1897
on the editorial page appears the follow
NJ:
If the city council has subsidized the
Standard then w. H. Rowe has also sub
sidized the Standard, the city council gave
was published and W. H. Rowe did the
same thing. He had his matter published
in the same issue of the Standard as the
city council and charged both IS cents per
line and stated if the city subsidized the
Standard, then Billy Rowe is guilty of
the same crime, and he should have no
cause tor complaint.
Afiant further stated that the publica-
ton thus quoted had reference to the
of w. H. Rowe and Daniel Van DAM
which is now on file in this court.
The newspaper from which the above
publication appears is herewith appended
and made part of this affidavit
Newton Farr. clerk of the Second dis
trict court. enumerated causes in which
the defendants had figured and which had
been tried before Judge Rolapp and gave
the result of the litigation.