The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-23
Wen. have you? I don't know that

Never mentioned it, even TO Mr..
Evans? I think not.
Nor to anybody else? When did you
first talk about this conversation that
you had with Sloan in the building
here2 Probably a couple of days be-
fore last Saturday.
To wnom did you first state about
that? To o. a. Powers, in his office.
Who else did you tell it prior to Sat
urday night? l think told Mr.. David
Evans; il was, think, Thursday night.
Anybody else prior TO Saturday night,
| except Powers and Evans? l think Mr..
Law, Mr.. Johnson and Mr.. Colburn
! were present.
Was there anybody else that you told
| II to. either on that occasion or any
! other? / think not. / want to qualify
that I told il to them. 1 simply ac-
| knowiedged what somebody else had
accused me of talking; somebody else
had told it, and l acknowledge it.
Was this talk with Powers at the
| same place that 1t was with Evans?
No. sir; it was in his office alone.
That was prior to Thursday night?
Yes, sir.
How soon after this occurrence was
it? 1t was d few days; probably the
! next time l saw him; day or two
after Feb. /.
No one else present at that time?
Nobody was present.
That occasion was the day that you
| had session in the afternoon? Yes,
sir.
| Do you fix that date in any way? L
remember it was the day we ad-
Journed at o'clock.
Have you looked it up since? Yes;
1 think yesterday.
When you first went out there what
was the first thing Sloan said with re-
gard to the subject? l cannot remem-
ber-that is, l do not remember exactly.
In the course of it he asked you not
to get angry? Yes.
Repeat that language, please. on the
subject of getting angry I do not
know what / should say other than
what / did say. He asked me. in sub
stance. not to get angry.
4 HUMOROUS CONVERSATION.
What was the next thing he said af-
ter that? There was considerable hui
morous talking, but the main thing |
remember was that he finally said he
wanted TO see McCune elected
Did you say you would or would not
get angry? told him l would not get
angry.
Did he say anything about any talk
being around about persons. being pur-
chasable? 1 do not remember.
DIDN'T say anything as to whether
anything was being said that other
What did he say about people accus-
ing you of being open for purchase? 1
have 2een accused of that ever since
election day
Did he say anything about it at that
time? / do not know that he did at
that time
Do you know that he did not? No
/ do not know that he did not
When he asked you not to get angry,
didn't he say, They say that you are
open TO some fOrm2" / rather think
there was something said. 1 did make
the remark that l didn't care a damn
what people said.
Give US your best recollection of the
remark he made. ! could not recall it.
1t was something that implied that
there were rumoTs that you had or
could or would sell; that was the gem
eral purport of it, was it?- Yes, sir.
And you said you didn't care a damn?
Yes, sir
Then he said. 1T is not true. is it.
that you viii take money!" No he did
not say that; what he did say was:
VIII you take money, or is it true that
you viii take money!"
Did he use both expressions? 1 don't
know; / don't remember which form ne
used. / cannot remember the exact
words.
You don't know whether he said.
u u
that you Viii take money!" l don't
remember that.
It may have been neither? Yes. sir !
Didn't he sa:- this: Now, don't get /
angry. but it is reported that you would
take money, and, as friend of yours
] ought To tell you?" No, 1 am sure
he did not say that.
Yet. in some form, he convened the |
idea? Yes.
loT-RTTC OPINION MINT ROTHEP /
And then you replied that you did /
not care what people said? Yes.
DID you get angry? No, sir; not in /!
his presence.
Did you reply to Mr.. Evans that you /
were going to get angry? l know that /
is what / usually do-get angry in those .
cases, and I promised myself that if /
anybody made any remark like that to /
me L was going TO smash him in the (
nose, and / didn't want to smash Mr.. /
sloan. and I walked away.
What relations have you been on
with him Since-friendly2 I judge so; /
SO much that I have spoken to him.
Is that all: didn't eat or drink with /
him2 no. sir.
Haven't drunk with him since? I !
can't say as TO that.
Called upon him? 1 never called up
on him.
or he on you? No.
Don't think you have eaten or
drunk with him? I didn't say that.
You say you didn't say that EOU had
not drunk with him? | said l did not
say that I had not eaten or drunk with
him.
Have You eaten with him? I do not
know; / may have done.
Drank2 I may have done.
Don't you know that you have? No; /
do not know that I have.
Do YOU say that at that time you
considered that an improper approach
ing OF YOU? Yes: I so considered it. an
improper inducement being held out.
+ considered il something that / did not
want to talk about.
You answered, in reply to Mr. Evans.
that you had received what you con-
sidered an improper inducement. You
ronsidered this such? l considered it
improper.
Why didn't you announce it or de-
nounce it in the joint assembly? 1
didn't want 20.
why not? l didn't want to.
Is that ell your reason? That is suf-
fcient
Is shat your reason? Yes.
You wanted to defeat McCune? Yes,
sir
DO anything you could to defeat him?
DID you think this would help to de-
feat him? don't know whether I
thought SO or not. I don't remember
hat I thought OF il in that light
You told it to Evans for the sake of
assisting in defeating McCune? No,
sir.
why did you tell him? 1t was ac-
inowledging what somebody else had
Who was the other person? 1t
seemed to me il WAS a general imDres-