The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-26
history until he mentioned it himself:

And wanted TO get some money? Yes,
sir.
Did you know that Mr. Sloan Lad given
him the fatherly advice that he was a
young. man ana that he was poor, and
fore him If he would simply permit ms
I financial anatomy to be strengthened up
a little bit by taking q bride? No. sir:
Didn't know anything about that? No.
! sir.
That by such conduct as that he Nigh.
! make considerable of man in the COM
munity? 1 don't know anything about
that.
You don't know anything about that?
And you mean to say. do you. Mr.. Nc
! Cune. that if a man makes you cold
blooded proposition TO accept 5000 for his
, official vote in the legislature that you
will walk across the street with him and
chatting with him, without denouncing
| him, and that you will shake mis- hand
upon parting? 1 mean TO say in this case
| that l did.
You did not have so much Indignation
then that it would prevent you frem do
/ ing that? No, sir.
why didn't you raise right up there in the
presence of Mr.. Horn or anybody else and
! denounce him. as he deserved! IN
| the presence of whom?
Mr.. Horn Mr. Horn?
Yes in the drug store. there? For the
simple fact that did not is the best evil
dence of why 1 didn't.
Just for the simple fact you did not!
You were not wrought up then to that
( tension? No. sir; l was not. =.
1t just seemed to annoy You little?
Made you a little bit petulant, didn't
! ito Yes.
hadn't said it? I don't know that al
! those particular feelings passed through
my anatomy at that time.
! No. they didn't pass through your
1 hat xFnrf IL q
/ infinitely.
| PRICE WOULDN'T HAVE MATTERED.
You were ANNOYED a little and the price
was little too high to start with? No:
the price wouldn't have made much diff
ference if I was going to buy.
Just as soon pay 5000 as N.5eJE NO; L
wouldn't have been apt to decker with
the man if I had gone there to buy.
Why didn't you give him $50 instead of
Mr.. van Cott-I object to that sort of
/ question; it is a dirty insinuation that is
The Chairman-The objection is sus-
''1 IF Won had given him $50 and promised
to give him 81, 400 and so more would
you have stuck TO your bargain, II ne
had voted for you and iulhiieo MS
p Mr. Mr.? Dickson-we object to that ques-
tor.
Question read.
Argued BIZ counsel
Mr.. Sorenson-I move the objection
be sustained.
Mr.. Cummings second the motion.
The motion was put and carried
will ask you, Mr. McCune. If you
have a high sense of morality about
influence of that kind? Yes. sir.
\ very high sense? I don't know
what you will class as very high
sense 1 have a high sense
ord hos
been before the public from boy up
here, so that 1 don't think there is any
stain on il. even if you do, or allude an
arrest that you didn't follow uD the
! balance of.
1 alluded to that, Mr.. McCune, be-
cause the supreme court of this state
has decided it is a perfectly DroDer
question: But you knew from the very
man that has followed me malieiously,
who has given you this story in a way
to injure me-and l have heard 1t be-
Gore on the streets
1t is true? 1t is not true it was any
crime
What do you call a crime?
MIR. Dickson-Weren't you informed
what the outcome of it was-that he
was discharged?
Mr.. Evans-I don't know what be-
came Of it: I don't care.
What do l call a crime? Why, perpe-
trating something that would be class
ed as a crime.
Weren't you arrested for an offense?
Yes. sir; I never was tried; was dis
charged Immediately, as soon as I got
here, without my giving any evidence
whatever.
What do you call a crime. one where
you are proven to be guilty? One at
least where you would be tried and find
no conviction.
That is what you would call a crime :?
Certainly, if there was any grounds for
it. but l know that the man that told
you gave you the outcome, or else you
ought to have got it before you asked
I the question.
EVANS GROWS LOFTY.
don't care to have any controversy
with you at all, Mr.. McCune; propose
to ask you questions, just the same as
! would any ordinary man; you nor
your counsel. either one, sir, can dis
suade me from my duty.
Mr.. Dickson-I object to this lecture
to the witness.
Mr.. Evans-He is lecturing me, and
1 propose to show him 1 am an Ameri-
can citizen as we'll as he.
Mr.. Dickson-GO on and ask a ques-
ton and we will object to it when we
think that they are improper and when
we do not we viii not object.
Now, Mr.. McCune how many men
have you in your employ in this cam
peign2 I couldn't tell you.
Don't keep any account of it? No, sir
None whatever? None whatever
Did YOU ever have any consultation
with Heber J. Grant? Yes, sir
How many? 1 couldn't tell you.
Could you give an intimation of how
many? No, sir; 1 cannot; 1 have met
Heber J. Grant a great many times.
Was he in your employ once? No,
sir; he was not.
Did you ever furnish him with any
money to forward your campaign? No,
sir; did not.
Did you ever relieve him of any en-
barrassing financial circumstances?
No. sir.
Or strengthen his physical anatomy?
No, sir.
Mr.. Van Cott-His what?
His financial anatomy Is that the
reason why you answered NO" be-
cause l said physical? Did you ever
strengthen his financial anatomy? No,
sir; 1 did not.
You never had any business dealings
with him, then? Yes, sir: I have; a
good deal of business dealings.
great many? Yes, sir
Did you talk with him about this
senatorial contest before you talked
with anybody else? Senatorial con-
test?
Yes: race-whatever you have a mind
to call it? You mean my entering
Yes; entering the race? No; not bv
any means. / had talked with a great
many before 1 had to him.
Thereupon an adjournment was TAX
en- until Monday. Feb. 26, at $3.50 a. m.
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