The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-21

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words.
Don't you remember of his saying
anything like that, that 4 am going
TO be elected senator; it has cost toe
much?" Yes; 1 remember him saying
that every time I met him.
WHAT MCUNE MAY HAVE SAID
l am speaking of this particular oc-
casion, addressing you, didn't he say,
Law, I am going TO be elected TO the
senate; it has cost me too much to lose;
/ am going 10 be elected and you had
better come into the band wagon and
come along with u.s." and you all
laughing about the remark, Mr.. Critch-
low and all of you? He may have made
that remark.
Don't you remember his saying any
thing of that kind? I don't remember
his saying those words.
The first time you remember his say
ing that lit has cost me too much to
| lose" was in the private room? De-
! finitely
Don't you remember it indefinitely?
/ Well, 1 say that he may have said it
in the restaurant.
Have you any recollection of his hav-
ing said it in the restaurant? Well,
he talked in that strain.
Have you any recollection? No, sir
OF his saving in substance that? He
may have said that in substance.
Do YOU recollect it? OF course he
may have said it. Have you any
recollection that he said that in sub
stance? l believe. that he said that
in substance. but used more words and
a longer time to say it.
You did not at that time think that
anything improper was meant? Well,
l didn't stop to think anything about
it at that time.
l-Is.
cannot you say whether you were
shocked by that remark or whether
you thought it was an attempt? Well,
everything that was said there at that
time while Mr.. Tanner and Mr.. By
water and Mr.. Critchlow and Mr. Nc
Cune and we were talking was said in
iocular manner.
There was nothing said there that
carried the suggestion to your mind
that there was any attempt to i'm
properly influence you? No, sir.
TALK OF CHURCH INFLUENCE.
Don't you remember that shortly
after that remark was made that the
conversation between Mr.. Bywater and
yourself and Mr.. Sloan and others of
the party drifted onto the alleged in
fluences that were being used to elect
the various candidates-there was
church influence being used? Well,
that was afterwards.
Well, while you We're there in the
restaurant? Yes. but it was after this
jocular conversation.
And about the talk or suggestion of
money influences being used? Yes.
Don't you remember Bywater say
ing to Mr.. McCune that if he knew
OF anything of that kind being done
by McCune or anybody acting for him
that he would not only leave him but
would prosecute him? He said that to
me, Mr. Bywater did.
In Mr.. McCune's presence? Yes.
But at all events. Mr.. Law, what
ever may have been said by Mr.. Nc
Cune or anybody else in that restaur-
ant, it did not carry to your mind any
suggestion that it was improper in any
way? No, sir
Didn't you say in that conversation
that If it could be shown to you that
church influence had been used in
electing you, or that church influences
were being used to elect Senator Can
non, if anybody. could prove that to
you that you would vote for McCune?
If they would remove the suspicion
that it was being used for him-I made
that reservation?
Didn't one of the party suggest to
you that a. mutual friend of his and
yours up in Cache county had told him
that he had seen a letter written by
one of the leaders-a man prominent in
the church, in behalf Of Senator Can
non, and didn't you say if that could
be proved-yOu know this man that
was referred to-didn't you say, eff he
will tell me that he ever saw such a
letter as that I will vote for Nc
Cune?" Yes. sir.
TELEGRAM TO BE SENT.
And wasn't it arranged between you
and Mr.. Sloan then and there that he
and you would frame a telegram and
send to this friend of yours of in
quiry? In the restaurant?
Yes. No, not in the restaurant.
Afterwards at the headquarters that |
evening? Yes.
Mr.. McCune didn't walk from the !
restaurant to the headquarters with |
you alone? No.
He made no improper suggestion to !
you on the way down? No.
or going up in the elevator? No. sir. |
Or out in the halls of the KENYON? |
No, sir.
When, as you went into the head
quarters with McCune, who accompan-
led you in there? Mr.. McCune, Mr..
Sloan and MIR. Monson.
Mr.. Joseph Monson? Yes, sir.
Did you all go into the same room
first? 1 believe we separated, but we
All llHdIIE SOI lllO the SdIlle IOOUl.
Before you got into the private room?
Yes.
Up to the time that you got into the
private room where you had this pri-
vate conversation W; h McCune, Nc
Cune had made no improper suggestion
10 you at all? No, sir.
And before-just before you went into
he private room, Monson and Sloan
and McCune and you were all in the
!
)ther parties there.
And others. too? The private room
nto which you went opened immedi-
itely off the room where you four and
,ther gentlemen were together? Yes,
ir.
Mr.. Monson was in that outer room
when you went into that private room,
vas he? Yes, sir; think so. He was
n one of those rooms.
You left him, you and McCune, and
vent into the priv--.e room? We left
he crowd, not particularly him.
You had been talking to him but a
before? We had been talking
Jack and forth.
Immediately before you went into
hat room? Yes, sir.
NOT ALONE A MINUTE.
Now, Mr.. Law, isn't it a fact that
on and McCune went into that room,
talked into the room, the door being
Eft open into this main room, where
II these other people were; that Nc
une, without sitting down at all, with
ut stopping minute or thirty sec !
nds walked to the door and called
loan into that room? No. sir; it is
OF fact. !
And isn't it true that Sloan and you
nd McCune remained there? No. sir.
Wait a moment-until Mr.. Joseph ;
Tpucop 90 mo in No sir