The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-25
BID FOR A BARONETCY
DETAILS OF THE METHODS USED BY
THE AMBITIOUS MIR. HOOLEY.
Didn't Get the Title, but Bought His
Way Into an Exclusive London
Club for the sum of $4,000.
London Letter in philadelphia Telegraph.


| 1t has fallen to my lot to see not little
| of the Hooley drama both before and be-
| hind the scenes, and an extremely inter
| esting experience it has been for all con-
cerned save and except the thousands of
| deluded shareholders from whose pockets
have been taken the big sums which the
| erstwhiie Napoleon of Finance talks so
| glIoly Of having thrown away. have heard
with some amount of establishment the
| manner in which colossal companies are
floated and titled directors procured, and
at times, when Mr.. Hooley has been saying
| that he gave this or that man a big check
because he was friend Of mine," pass
ing regret has passed through my mind
| that did not make friends with the mann
| mon of the Midland Grand Hotel at the
| time when he was singing his money about
in so princely a manner. / have said his
| money" but when a man buys a business
! for two millions and sells it again to the
confiding public for three, it is open to ques-
| ton whether he has any moral right to the
/ surplus. OF course he has had to share the
| plumber, and it is to the demands which
have been made upon him in this direction
that Mr.. Hooley ascribes his descent from
the position of an emperor of finance to
the presumably penniless occupant OF the
| witness box in Bankruptcy Court No. 2. He
went UP like rocket aud he has come down
| very much like stick. Rarely in the realms
| OF finance has a formerly insignificant in
| dividual risen so suddenly into magnficence
| and power. The world seemed to be at his
| feet, and all he touched appeared to
| turn into gold. Now there are
few so poor as to do him reverence, and
| even his own clerks are turning round on
him and threatening all kinds of revela-
| tons. He is shrewd man of a sort and
am not at all sure that in some of his
big operations he has not been more sinned
against than SHINING. There is a good deal
of pitch in city circles, and it is difficult
| to touch 1t without being defiled This is
| certainly the case in regard to the gutter
| journals which have their day and cease
to be so soon as the purpose of their origi-
majors has been served. Mr.. Hooley told us
at the beginning of the proceedings that
| he was going to make some fearful revela-
| tlons as to the manner in which he had
| been blackmailed by 1.-THE press" and some
of us felt anxious for the good reputation
of the fourth estate. But with one or two
exceptions the actual facts he has been
able to tell relate to journals which are
practically unknown and many of which
are even defunct That ne paid away large
sums to advertising agents for adver-
| easements and friendly notices seems to he
| pretty true, but whether ali the money thus
Iald out got to the proper quarters one may
take time TO doubt. Three "city edtors''
| nave been implicated. One is dead, one has
| explained. and another has both EXPLAINED
| ana resigned. On the whole, the respectable
! press seems to have come out fairly well II
| has, of course, received scale price for the
! Dig advertisements of Hooley companies
Whch nave appeared, but this was all i'm
| received"
SIR E. T. .HoOLEY, BART"
But aHothis time 1 have been running
away from my original intention. which
was to refer to the startling proceedings
which took place yesterday, and which have
supplied effective curtain for the fifth
| act of the romantic drama. When the court
rose last Monday week no one had attended
to cross-examine Mr.. Hooley, andIt seemed
| likely that the case would fizzle out as ycs-
terday. But it is always the unexpected
which happens, and those who did not think
1t worth while to go to Carey street yester-
day lost wonderful treat and some strange
| revelatlons as to how membership of a big
club can be bought and even baronetcies APP
| pied for 1t says much for those who adj
| wise the fount of honor that even quarter
| OF million dollars did not tempt them
TO bestow hereditary honors upon the squire
| or Papworth Hall. But the latter could
nardly nave planned more sensational end
and there will be some searching of he3rfs
IN high political circles to-day
II was dim and foggy in court No. 2 yes
tterday morning when Registrar Hood took
MS seat; but the moment it was seen that
new and interesting witness was literally
bursting with eagerness to tell his story 4
rustic or expectancy went around the build
my, WMcn was not quite so crowded as on
some former occasions The new ana i'm
portant witness was Sir William, N NTorri
0tt-once minister, once the Liberal and
KadicaI member for Brighton once the
Judge advocate general, and now it would
seem person of some influence at the
carton Club, the headquarters of the great
conservative party, to have the entree 10
Mnch-When you haven't got ten or twenty
dIhae9susand TO throw away-is one of the most
olncult things in the world. At the previous
examination Mr. Hooley had airilv ex
planned that a certain e1OO0 check made
out IN the name of Sir William was for in
MIN made n member. This Sir William had
already denied in the papers but he was
ahihAt eo 10 give Mr. EIooley the lie direct to
H liz race ana made his appearance in court
lie gave the lie certainly but it is a 01Ies
tion whether he did his party any good by
SUBMITTING himself to examination
, Mr.. Hooley came in to time. He explained
tnat ne had travelled since ) that morn
srg IN order to be present but he looked
spruce ana Well and by no means worried
lie always reminds me Of the gentleman
VINO, on being asked whether his affairs
were NOT embarrassed, said, smlingly: ssOh
not l." N'
REMOVING THE VEIL
When Sir William at last got into the box
his counsel explained that he had an action
for commission pending against Mr.. Hoolev
but he couldn't wait until that was heard
before he cleared himself OF that e1NOOO
check. rs it or is it not true, Sir William.
that YOU were given $1,000 by Mr.. Hoo
ley for introducing him to the Carlton
Club?' This was the first question, and.
assuming his best ministerial attitude, with
his hand fguratively on his heart, the late
judge advocate general said: 1T is abso-
lutely untrue from beginning to end I do
not know what Mr.. Hooley means" And
then he looked around the court with a yir-
tuous air, waiting for the applause which
qua not come. He then went to explain
how and why Mr.. Hooley became a Carl
ton1te. Hooley was not elected because he
gave $4,000, said the witness. He was cam
didate for Radical Ilkeston, and any other
candidate who was fighting a seat under
those circumstances would have been elect
ed to the Carlton. Two seats We're offered
him, which were perfectly certain seats
and he might have been returned. In that
case he would have been elected member.
OF the Carlton. He himself said in a mo-
ment of patriotic gush that he preferred to
night great Radical seat rather than have
safe seats. He went down to Ilkeston
where, he said, he was born, end where he
spent a lot Of money Those were his cIof,oe