Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-03-02

feeling % his ground. TO see whether IL
would be safe 10 tread furthcfg No.
Their discussion had been on lines that
we're entirely proper. national issues
and local issues In politics. and without
anything. without any intimation from
Law that he was not ~ pure as my
friends now paint him. no. that h. was
nc. a. pure and apoticss a. an angel.
Mr. Mccune bluricd out Of him. ~ have
got 70 be elected. this thing has cost
me too much. and n you will vote for
mo tomorrow you can TX your own
price"
IS 1T REAsoNABLE7
n II reasonable story3 Isit. zen.
tlemen. q probable story7 ~ If. Me
cune tonk him In there for tho purpose
Of bfibinR him Or trying to bribe him
IN ~ probable that Mcclure would sit
there while he had him alone for
twenty minutes. talking about the rll-
Yer question. and about church unfit
cnee and things 81 that kind why.
no. II he took him IN there with the
purpose " briblng him. or trying to
bride him, your common sense and
mine tells me that he would begin talk.
Ing about that business first. IN ortlor
that he might get through with u be-
fore he was interrupted. and your cofn-
mon sense ana mine tells me that h.
never would have been approached In
that way. There would have been
some little fceler thrown out. Even II
Mcclure ur amy other man had tho lis
position to commit crime like this.
there would be some fcolor thrown out
60 zee whether or not u would be- safe
10 tread further In that direction. but
We have Laws story for n. ~ have
given H. Mccunc says It ~ false.
Sloan says u l. false. and Jolaph Non.
II L. NUNHM W. Aaaa.
the one hand here. and We have three
men who say he lied McCunh said h.
went IN there and never at down. ".
stated he invited this man Law 10 take
scat ana Immediately stepped hack
% the door, never having clo-rd Il at
all. and called Sloan In. and sloan stys
he says 10 him 10 call Monson; ~ ae
simply went IN n moment. aud Dunbar
stepped 10 the door and called Monaln
N. and that they came In there 10 talk
over what they had been talking about
~ nj the restaurant, namely. sending
the telegram 10 this gentleman, fiarher,
IN Logan, 10 Inquire about certain
letter which they were discussing.
which mentioned Church influence for
somebody In some political contest, and
I care nothing about n.
First, ] call your attention 10 the I'm
probability OF Laws own Htury AZ 10
the chargoa-what occurred there that
Tuesday night-nnd then 20 the fact
that he IL natiy contrndictcil by these
three men. You know. each one ~ you,
gentlemen, that II Law told the truth,
that Mcclure and aionn and Mnns1n
have committed wiifui perjury. Don't
your There u no chance here 10 recon-
Gle this evidence Either Law. this
man who comes under the Questionable
circumstances which surround him,
when he takes his place upon the wit
ness Htnnd-elthcr h. has givtn cor
rupt ana false testimony. or these
other three men have committed per-
Jury.
FRIDAY NIGHT.
We come down 10 the Friday nlrbt.
There, u N true. We have Law on the
one hand and Mr. sloan
alone on the other Mr.. sloan
nnd MonHon admit they had telcphoncd
him 10 come up 10 headquarters aud
talk about framing hln telegram again
that was 10 be sent 10 Barber He hal
promised "a come Wednesday. and had
come, and Sloan wasn't there. Friday
sloan telonhoncd md he said he would
be- up about o'clock. and sloan said,
Come NJ and We viii go TO dinner
together" and he said. AN right All
that was admitted. There was nothing
said IN the headquarters between them
1t " not claimed there was anything
Improper said IN the hcadquart.rs on
Friday They went out 10 dinner, aud
you have Laws testimony on the one
hand ana Sloan on the other. sloan
says he said there ARE reputable and
respectable gentlemen In the I.eRiHla.
turn supporting MoCune, men about
whose character for honesty and intcg-
rity and uprightness there would be no
question. " you were standing In com.
phny 81 that Kind, many ~ those who
have changed their votes since the bal
lotlng FIRST began. n you stand IN COM
pany with gentlemen such az these.
don't soc that your motives could be
impugned. and that WIS all thsre was
about n.
Sit. Law says that he said 60 him, Il
know the proposition that has been
made a. you and you had better take
H." that In the substance OF Mr. Laws
testimony.
THE PLAN FOUND.
ON thcFriday evening that Il had been
publicly reported about the streets OF
this city that Mr.. Mccune was going
To- b" elected the next morning, We md
Mr.. Law In the knutHfofd hotel. In con.
ference with Representative johnson
ANA Representative Smith and there
Law for the firHt time tells. according
10 johnson. that h. was offcrcd-thht
hu was told by McCunc on Tueadny
evening at his headquarters that " he
would vote for him the next day he
could ~ his own price. and I WAS told
by him auhatsitlaily the anmc thing
again last night II, his hehrqunrtcra
Johnson, ~ course may be mistaken
lie may have misunderstood what Law
said 20 him. liut N Law did Hny To
johnson what johnson says Law said
To him. then Law must have lied there
ANA here. because he does not pretend
that he had hut one conversation with
Mccune aud that was on Tuesday even
Ing. that he didn't have any talk with
him nHnin On Friday afternoon or Fri.
duv evening NJ headquarters.
They take carriages and "a up to
police headquarters. They finally cons
cludrd a. VT room IN tho jenkins
block Law would sleep there the bai-
nncc ~ that night. and the police would
be on hand the next morning In the
adjoining room and things were ar
ranged IN that they could peep over
the transom and tco what was going
on.
THE TELEPHONE MESSAGE.
Law says he sent over the public
telephone this message toMCCune. That
he wanted Ia SEQ him privately. that he
thought he was prepared 90 make a
deaf with him FOR his vote 10 you
believe thatf Does nny man believe
thatf II 70 reasonable that any man
even what Law says he
himself was contemplating, would send
a message like that over public tele.
phonef DO you think that II a mes
sage Ike TINT had come 90 McCune
over the telephone, n want Co SEQ you
privately, ! think I can make deal
u IN YOU for my vote" that Meruuk