The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-08

do? The very next issue after Laws
charges were made the Tribune said:
''The charge made in the Legislature
yesterday by a member was a most
serious one. For the honor of the state
we sincerely trust that the charge can
be so thoroughly disproved that it viii
amount to a complete vindication. Re
gardless of politics, it is a matter
which. as it goes directly to the honor
of the state, is a Government to
every citizen"
Think of it. They were Lannan's in
situations. Lannan's suggestions, Ian
mans charges merely given local hab-
itation and a name by this man Law.
And yet, smiling at the success OF his
plot-worked up with the assistance of
his candidate and his attorney and his
chief of police-the arch-consDirator
dry-washed his hands and smiled and
said:
TOO badl 1t is a serious matter. For
the honor of the state I try so hard to
save L do hope the charge will be dis
proved
But before the committee appointed
to investigate the matter was through
hearing evidence. Mr.. Lannan became
satisfied that his prayer for a vindica-
ton would probably be answered, so
he gave himself completely away by
ordering his mud batteries train uaon
the committee-all except Snur,litf and
Howell.
He falsely accused the committee Of
ruling "out everything they can that
threatens TO injure Mr. Mccune's
cause
He libeled four members of the COM
mittee, just as he had libeled Mr.. Nc
Cune from the beginning. And then
he said: 1T is a foregone conclusion
that the report is to be a many coated
whitewash."
All this from P. H, Lannan, who
prayed for d yindication in public,
while his paper was being depended
upon by Law and Pratt and Cannon
and Colborn to make their plot succeed.
The committee called him and in
CURED concerning the crimes and i'm
morality he had been talking so much
about. What was his answer under
oath? He said he knew nothing-abso-
lutely nothing about the truth of the
matters charged. Coming as it did from
the originator of the whole Infamous
and libelous gossip by which he sought
to injure a man he regarded as d pos
sible business rival, p. II. Lannan's tes-
timony itself was a vindication of a.
w. McCune.
But what does Mr.. Lannan say of the
report of the committee, now that it
is in? Is he pleased with the "vindica-
ton he piously prayed for the other
day? Not much. He is raving be-
cause his political conglomeration has
been started rolling down the hill He
indirectly charges the committee with
dishonesty and corruption. These are
his words:
1.-THE report of the investigation COM
mittee of the legislature has been
known and discounted for a week The
majority of the court unconsciously
gave themselves away so that 10 one
was deceived as to what to expect
Hence the report comes merely as a
thing else. To have condemned the
methods of the accused would have
been in part at least, a confession
of judgment"
The idea of Pat Lannan preaching
morality and integrity to men like
Whitney, Stewart Sorenson, Mansfield
and Cummings! 1t is u travesty upon
:
Hannas counterpart and prototype
charging by innuendo that these men
have anything to confess which they
are concealing by their verdict! But
look how the minority report, which
reads like a Tribune editorial, is re-
ceived by the champion of young Utah's
bad man"
The Tribune says:
1.-THE minority report of the legisla-
tive committee reads like the work of
honest men, and it is absolutely con-
vincing. We do not believe that there
are ten men in the state who will not
confess, at least to themselves, that
it was as mild conclusion as could
possibly be made. Those two men,
under a fearful pressure, wrote what
they believed, and what any unbiased
jury on earth could not help, but be-
lieve. and they should have fun credit
! for their manhood and their integrity.
It is a pitiabie business all around it
ought to be a lesson to all future can
didates and all future legislatures
AS well pat himself on the back and
exclaim with Jackie IIorner: See what
! a good thing am l. 1t reads like the
work of the same gang that laid the
J badger trap and sent Law out to So
licit buyer for his young manhood"
/ We do not believe there are ten men in
the state who are not convinced that
the whole thing is miserable conspir-
acy to which, either ignorantly or ma
liciously, Senators Shurtliff and Howell
extended their sympathy and support
If these two men wrote their minority
report under a fearful pressure" the
tone of the report indicates whence the
pressure came. 1t is pitiable business,
but just such business as Lannan,
Cannon, Ryan, Jackson, Pratt and
! Powers revel in. But it is pitiable just
! the same.
CUBAN ENERGY AWAKENED.