The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-26

Didn't you CALI out and say that to
] him? Yes, sir.
What did he answer? I couldn't ten
you: he made this. excuse that he was
being watched.
Didn't you try to disabuss his mind
of that? No, sir.
THOUGHT NOTHING IMPROPER.
That there was nothing improper at
all? l think in the first start: 1 don't,
know as 1 tried TO disabuse his mind
/ about coming over. l asked him 10
come over, and he made this remark
| What did he tell you over the tele-
phone about probably wanting to vote
for you that day? He said that ac-a
cording to the talk with my men that
ne might vote for me that day.
! According to the talk he had with
your mem Yes. sir.
And that he was ready to do busi-l
ness with you? No, sir.
! Didn't he say that? No, sir; he did
rot
That he was now in position that
he could do business with you? No.
sir.
And didn't you make a reply to that,
For Gods sake, don't say anything
more over the phone2" I did not.
You did not2 No sir
But you did make the other remark,
cautioned him against speaking over
the public phone, didn't you? 1 have
answered that question now, think.
about eight or ten times for you that
7 G.d.
You did? Yes.
When you arrived there. what did
you see first? Arrived where?
At the drug store? I saw Mr.. Horn,
and 1t seemed TO me somebody else -
the drug store. but I couldn't be posi-
tive on that, and Mr.. Law.
Before taking you down to the drug
store, 1 viii ask you what you did
there and talked to Thatcher and Ev-
ans? Yes.
What did Thatcher tell you to do?
don't know particularly what he did
say, except that he said he had voted
for a Democrat yesterday, and there
was no reason why he shouldn't vote
for another today
You were then talking about getting
Mr.. Laws vote? No. sir; I had just
simply told him that Mr.. Law had
teleDhoned me.
That he might vote for you on that
day? Yes.
Now. you could have replied to him.
"all right go ahead and vote if you
want to-" Yes; 1 could have done. but
Mr.. Law had been sort of working
around gradually, friendly, and 1 sup
posed ne wanted to see me personally.
as nearly every legislator that is voting
for me has had q private interview
with me.
Yes, they come TO you gradually?
Yes. some of them; 1 have had dozens
and dozens of private interviews.
And did John Evans discuss the
question with You as to whether you
would be elected on the first, second or
third ballots? Yes, sir
And didn't he tell you to advice Mr..
Law that if you were not elected on the
first or second or third ballots along
there sometime to cast his vote for you?
He said something of that kind he said
it would be better for me to be elected
with Democratic votes
You say some little doubt was lurk-
ing in your mind as to whether you
would be elected on that day? Doubts
be hanged: I have told you that, just
what L felt. of course there is always
doubt; there is always a chance of a
slip 'tWixt the cup and the lip; what is
the use of reiterating all that rot
WAS ABSOLUTELY CONFIDENT.
There was some little doubt then in
your mind? None at all; felt conf
dent of being elected.
Not the least doubt in the world? oh,
yes, probably just a little bit or a faint
doubt. if you want it that way. have
the doubt there.
Did you put on your hat and coat?
Yes, sir.
Overcoat? Yes, sir.
Side pockets in it? Yes, sir.
Have some stuff in all Of them, did
you? 1 possibly did.
Did you have your cane along with
you? Yes, sir.
In which hand did you carry it? I
carried it most all the time in my right
hand.
Most of the time? Yes. sir.
Some OF the time in your left? Very
rarely.
Very rarely? Yes, sir.
Whom did you see before entering
into the drug store? 1 saw a great
many people on the street
Pay any attention to any of them in
particular? Not particularly.
Just before entering the drug store.
mean? l didn't pay any particular at
tentfon to anybody before 1 entered the
Where did you meet Mr.. Law? In the
drug store.
What was the first word you said to
him? I think it was good morning.
Good morning? Yes. sir
Shake hands with him? Yes, sir.
Did you notice then whether he had
two fingers gone: NO, SIT
ANYTHING peculiar about the hand
shake? No, sir.
You had shaken hands with him
good many times. hadn't you? Yes, sir.
And he suggested 10 you or you asked
him what he wanted, didn't you, first?
Yes. sir; 1 asked him what he wanted
to sse me about
What did he say? He said he wanted
to see me alone. and / suggested some
thing about sitting down there. and
that was the way that came about At
first he proposed to take me to his room
and 1 told him no, that I didn't have
much time; that 1 was very busy at
and he said he wanted
to see me alone or something of that
kind. and think 1 suggested to go to
HoCIe's saloon, if I remember right
What made you think Of that? Ho-
giles saloon. because there is a. private
room there at the back, if ne wanted tc.