The San Francisco call., 1899-01-28


story was true?
A. Well. it was not true as published in
the papers. That was what he had ref
erence to.
@. Did any one telephone or any one
else telephone to you and ask you If this
was true as reported?
A. No; hold on. Yes; Mr.. sMeick did. Is
that your name?
@. This is Mr. Melick Gndicating.)
A. Well, Mr.. Melick called me up on the
telephone and asked me if there was any
l put it in very emphatic language; tod
him there wasn't = word of truth
in it; something of that kind
q. What about your testimony here
now? You testify there is truth in 1t?
A. do not think so, do not think so.
do not think l have testified that way.
Green that you thought he had better go
in and make a money fight II he was go
ing to win? 80
Cosper. / did not say anything OF that
kind about Cosper.
@. Did not you in your testimony
here say that you told him that per-
haps Cosper is waiting for five or
six thousand collar bidp
A. Yes, sir.
@. You didp
A Yes, I told that to Green.
@. What did you tell him that
forP
A. Well, don't know why I told
him that, only this-that I thought
that if that was the kind of tight that
was going to be made, Grant better
make it.
@. He had better make an offer to
Cosperp
A. No, not to him particularly,
but to anybody.
@. Well, you were talking about
Cosper at the timer
A. Well, no; at that time was not
talking particularly about Cosper.
@. As understood your testi-
mony, now, you said that you told
him perhaps he is waiting for five
or six thousand dollar offer"P
A. Yes.
@. Then you were talking about
Cosperp
A. Well, yes; that might have
reference to him in that way.
@. Mr.. Cosper was your friend, as un-
derstood it?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. OF course you understand that con-
Meeting mans name with a five or six
| thousand dollar offer would not place your
| friend in very good light, do you not?
| A. Well, there is no intimation at all
on my part and l had no right to inti
mate anything of the kind that Mr.. Co.'S
per would accept any sum of money what
ever for his vote, or that he could be in
fiuenced by any financial consideration
| whatever.
9. But you suggested that perhaps he
| had better do it?
A. Well, 1 suggested it. I suppose it
was more in a joking way than anything
else. L suggested it upon the same plan
that We talk about those things-the same
| lines as the newspapers will talk about
| there being money in the fight and all
that sort of thing. For myself wanted
| to find out for myself, too, as a matter of
| curiosity, whether there actually was go
ing to be---if 1t was going to be fought out
on that line.
@. You found it was not going to be
fought out on that line?
A Well, do not know whether 1 did or
O. You left the next morning?
A. l left that evening.
Q. Mr.. Green told you that he was not
| buying votes?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. And the next morning you left?
| A. YeS-I left that evening. l would
/ have left anyway, as my time was up.
/ had TO go home.
@. What was your object in finding out
whether they were making a money fight
or not, or making an offer for votes?
A. AS a matter of curiosity to know.
always try to keep up with political af-
i fairs, and it does man good sometimes
| to know things.
Q. Now, you are a man of enough brains
to know that connecting mans name, as
you did Mr.. Cosper there, with propo-
sition of offering or giving him five or
six thousand dollars for his vote might
| bring him into diSrepute; you realized
that at that time, did you not?
A. No, sir; 1 did not.
@. You realize now?
do raaliZa III / did not realize
1t then and l do not realize now that any
legitimate inference Of that kind could be
drawn from it and L not believe that
it would have any place whatever in any
bodys mind if it was not for suspicious
legislative investigation going on, where
they are following up all sorts of idle ru-
mors that there is absolutely nothing in
and which they know there is nothing in.
when they start in to follow them up.
@. You realize that it has caused Mr..
| Cosper's name to be connected with ugly
rumors throughout the State?
A Yes, sir, for all of which L am very
sorry
Q. Now, tell us why you made that
proposition to Mr.. Green.
A. ! did not make any proposition to
| Mr.. Green, sir.
O. Wen, as you testified here in your
testimony, why did you make that propo-
A. I have explained why made it.
@. You have not explained.
| A have explained.
@. Well, what was it?
A The reporters notes will show what
@. You have not told US why you asked
that question.
| A. / have told you.
Q. Well, tell us again.
A. l don't choose to.
o. Well. were you fishing? Were you
| attempting to pull Mr. Green's leg in your
own interest, If not Mr.. Cospers?
A. Not at all, sir. Not at all.
/ O. You were very much interested to
find out whether money fight was going
| on?
| :, A. I am one of the fellows that. gets his
leg pulled. 1 do not make anything out
! of politics. l spend money
@. How do you get your leg pulled?
A By spending money in political cam
@. Were you playing for even on Green?
| A No sir, / did not think Green
| thought so or thinks so now.
| O. What did Mr.. Green tell you when
you told him that perhaps Mr.. Cosper
| was waiting for an offer of six thousand
dolars-fve or six thousand dollars?
| A Well, he said, II will tell you, so far
as 1 am concerned, would not give him
nor any other man a - cent.
/ Q. Did he tell you to tender his compli-
ments to Mr.. Cosper and tell him he was
not buying votes?
| A. No, sir; he did not
| @. He did not tell you that?
A. No, sir.
| O If no testified to that fact then IL Is