The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-03


campaign, and l want my friends to
have some of it," and then said to Mr..
| Nebeker,, Now, VIII, am going to
put it to you straight. VIII you sell
your vote for money, or is it true that
you will sell your vote for money!
Mr.. Nebeker then says he told Mr..
I Sloan ne would not talk. to him about
it and went away indignant. Mr.. Sloan
| denies that such conversation occurred,
! and gives his version of what actually
took place. He says that in that inter
| view he and Mr.. Nebeller were talking
about the condition the Democratic
/ party of the state was in on account
of the senatorial contest. He appealed
! to him in that conversation as a friend.
He said he knew that Mr.. NebeAer
would not vote for Mr.. McCune, but
asked him if Mr.. McCune could be
| elected. Mr.. Nebeker said he could.
! When asked by Mr. Sloan how, he stat
| ed, That's for you to find OUT He
! then said to Mr. NelOeker, after some
further conversation, Now, VIII, don
| be angry with me, but people are say
| ing that you Will sell your vote for
money" That Nebeker separated from
him, using about the same language at
parting as was stated b. Mr.. Nebeker.
| Mr.. Sloan contends that he made no
| offer, he made no suggestion of an Of
fer of money for votes for Mr.. McCune
That he intended nothing of that KIND
and in this version of the story we
think that Mr.. Sloan is corroborated by
| the circumstances.
| From what we know and believe, Mr..
Nebeker is not the man to have a bald
! proposal of bribery presented TO him
even from a friend, without resentnS
! it more emphatic than he did on
this occasion, without thereafter be-
| coming the enemy of the man VINO
dared to make the offer. But 1t seems
| that since that time Mr.. Sloan and Mr..
Nebeker, who had been friends for
years before, continued to be friends.
and have wined and dined together as
such. Not only that; while Mr.. w. G.
| Nebeker is and has been, from the be-
ginning Of this legislature to the pres
ent time, one of the strongest opposers
of Mr.. McCune, and has no doubt been
ready and willing to expose him. Pos
sibly in order to defeat his election
that little proposal, which he says was
suggested to him by Sloan, he has kept
a secret in his bosom and never di-
vulged it until after the charges were
preferred by MIR. Law on the floor OF
the assembly.
Now, gentlemen of the committee, we
| take this position, if what Mr.. Sloan
said to Mr.. NebekeT meant corruption,
it meant corruption before Mr.. Law in
as we'll as after If it meant corrup-
tion before why did Mr.. Nebeker wait
from the 18th until the 10Th day of Feb
! ruary before making the charge? There
is something singular in this whole pro-
| ceeding. Something unfathoInable to
human understanding. The truth is,
gentlemen of the committee, that what
ever took place between these two men
was certainly considered by Mr.. Nel-
e1er himself to be unimportant. He
cannot say he kept it secret because he
did not want to betray a friend, for the
very fact that he afterwards did DIS
close what he claims the facts to be,
shows that he was not embarrassed by
any feeling of friendship or attachment
for Mr.. Sloan.
We think this charge falls to the
ground. 1t Will not bear the search
light when cast upon it.
FAIRS TALK ON TRAIN.
There was another specification as
signed by Mr.. Law upon information
and belief, to the effect that Mr.. FAR,
in conversation with Mr.. COOK, offered
to bet that Mr.. Cook and other gentle
men named could get from twenty to
twenty-five thousand dollars if they
would vote for Mr.. McCune. It was
remarkable specification, and SO IA
grant in its incomDetency and irrele-
VaEcy as regarded MIR. McCune that
the committe, on motion of counsel, re-
fused to hear the evidence concerning
it, Afterwards you, gentlemen of the
committee, did consider it on your own
account, and the only comment I have
tc make upon that specification is that,
Notwithstanding it was flaSrantly, con-
spicuously and absolutely incomJetent
and irrelevant and did not have, and
could not have any binding influences
or effect upon Mr.. McCune in this IN
Vestigation, still even that was fatty
denied and contradicted by Mr. Farr,
who stated with emphasis that no such
conversation ever took place.
If there is any one allegation in these
charges, or any one incident brought
into this investigation, more than an
other which tends TO show a malicious,
unjust and malignant disposition OF
the prosecution towards Mr.. McCune,
it is this specification, and the attempt
to prove It.
In the name of heaven, we ask, in
what manner could or did Mr.. McCune
become bound or prejudiced by the IL
responsible side bets, or propositions to
bet, made by Mr.. Farr, or any other
man, not his agent? And yet, by means
Of such stuff as this does the Drosecu-
ton III this case hope to convince the
people of Utah and the members of
the Utah legislature in particular, that
Mr.. McCune is guilty of bribery, and,
therefore, unworthy of their confidence.
Shame on the man or men who have
become so low and degraded as to con-
ceive of the application attempted to
be made by this circumstance to this
investigation. Enough upon that sub
sea-.
THE LAPISH INTERVIEW.
The next item in the specifications
c r. h1 TOT tn 6a not
sentative LaDish, who is the inventor
Of some device which may be useful to
railroad companies, has been influ-
eEced, or attempts have been made to
influence him by improper means to
vote for Mir. McCune.
This charge is exceedingly thin. Even
the testimony OF Mr.. Lapish, if taken
as true ana uncontradicted cannot by
the most strained construction that can
be placed upon 1t, mean what the pros |
ecution claims for it. 1t is perfectly ap- |
parent, and from his own statement, |
wherein he says that Mr.. Dunbar told |
him if Mr.. AcCune was elected he |
might be able to assist him il procur-
ing his invention. II he was not elected |
he could not assist him. I say, gentle
men of the committee, it is perfectly |
plain that Mr.. Dunbar meant that if !
Mr.. McCune were elected, While at |
Washington he would be enabled to de- |
vote time to the interests of his con- !
stituents and thereby would be enabled |
to give attention to matters of that |
kind in the proper department of the !
government. The very fact that he said !
if elected he could do that, while if |
not elected he could not, clearly implies !
that there was nothing suggested by |
way of pecuniary or financial aid. But |
even that version of the story is denied |
by Mr.. Dunbar, and there are circum-
stances and details of the real version
as given by Mr.. Dunbar, not denied by
Mr.. Lapish, which convinces US beyond
the possibility of a doubt that the YER
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