The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-21
WAS IN FIGHT 10 WIN.


i What was the first thing that he said
you approached? That he was in this
fight to win, and that he had been
and that he had put I'D too much
money in the fight TO lose it now for
any paltry consideration.
Done what? That he had lost toe
much money in the fight TO lose the
tight for any paltry consideration.
first.
What else did he say? Oh. we'll. that
is what he said on that subject in sub
stance.
What else did he say that was i'm
proper? he said, Law, if you will
vote for me tomorrow. you can name
your own consideration and terms -
That was improper.
L should say so. You, of course.
jumped up and went out of the room
Immediately, didn't you? didn't break
my neck to get out
Did you stay there talking with hing
after that? Yes. sir.
You didn't become angry? No. sir;
not particularly angry.
Well, at all angry? AIthough-yes. 7
did; l don't like a man to take me for
a damned rascal.
| Did you keep your seat, or spring to
| your feet, when he made that improper
proposition TO you? No. sir; I am not
a demonstrative sort of an individual.
You are very cool and collected,
| take it, are you not? Ordinarily,
You maintained your seat. What re-
ply did you make? I don't remember
! just exactly; 1 don't remember the ex-
act words; L told him in substance that
wasn't a man of that kind and 1
couldn't do it,
| Can't you remember what you said
when this man said to you, IF you
viii vote for me tomorrow. YOU can
name your own price," Don't you re-
member what reply you made? I said
in substance that / wasn't a man of
/ that kind, and wouldn't do it. and
couldn't do it; that | wouldn't vote
for man if l couldn't support a man
on principle, 1 wouldn't support him for
any consideration.
Didn't you say to him: Mr.. McCune,
will not listen to any talk of this
kind, and l will denounce you on the
| floors of the house in the morning."
No, sir; because I knew very well 1
wouldn't do any such thing.
You knew you wouldn't do it? You
knew you wouldn't do it, you said on
Saturday, because you felt conscious of
the fact that you had laid yourself
open to the proposition. didn't you?
Yes, sir; and as TO the additional rea-
son that no one would believe me-
Those who knew you wouldn't have
believed you; that is what you had in
mind? There might have been lots of
people that would have believed but
wouldn't have dared to say so.
What you had in mind was that peo-
pie who knew you would not have be-
lieved you? People that knew me
would have believed me.
FEARED DISBELIEF.
You were acquainted with all the
members of the legislature, were you
not? Yes. sir.
And you felt conscious of the fact
that it would not do for you to de-
nounce Mr.. McCune on the floors of the
assembly the next day, because you
knew people would not believe you?
couldn't prove what 1 would tell them
You meant what you said when you
said you knew you wouldn't be be-
l1eved? By the majority.
You thought of that at the time. did
you? No sir; 1 didn't think of it; you
asked me
If it didn't occur to you at the time.
why didn't you jump up at once and
denounce the man who was attempting
to betray his country in that way?
VINO would have denounced him to?
Himself; to his face What good do
you suppose that would have done?
But at all events, whether it would
do any good or not. when this man at
tempted to corrupt you, to debauch
you, it never occurred to you to rebuke
him, or to denounce him there or else
where, did it? 1t did
Did it occur to you there? Yes, sir.
But you didn't do it? No sir; 1 re-
buked him just tina. far that 1 gave
him to understand that wasn't a man
of that kind and wouldn't do it,
Yes, by saying, L cannot do it. and
won't do it; 1 am not built that way?'
Yes, sir.
That is the rebuke and the denuncia-
ton and the extent of the denunciation
wasn't it? Yes, sir; what 1 have said.
That was the substance of it. 1 may
have used more words at the time.
Tell US in what way up to the time
Mr. McCune said this 10 you, You can
have your own price if you will vote for /
me. you had laid yourself open to the /
reception of proposition of that kind? |
What do you mean by open?
Question read) My presence with /
him alone
Oh! Constituted the fact that I was
open.
Is that what you meant in your
speech of Saturday? And in his pri- /
vate sanctum. That is what 1 meant
Now, Mr.. President, we were defed I
by speech and by a plea from the I
tan county yesterday, calling for proofs |
OF charges that had been made against |
the majority candidate-this candidate |
that is receiving the majority vote of I
this assembly-and Mr.. President, 1
propose, here and now. to offer those
proofs. (Wild applause) Now, sir, 1 /
viii state that last Tuesday night 1 |
held an interview with that gentleman,
and in the course of our remarks he
told me that he proposed to be elected:
that he had spent too much money on
this thing to lose it now for any paltry
And, Mr.. President, he
said to me, Law, if you will vote for
me tomorrow, you can name your own
price. Mr.. President. L did not take
advantage of the gentleman's offer, be-
cause l am not built that way. 1 claim
to be an honest man, and claim that 1
cannot be swerved by the power of
money from the straight line of duty.
,Applause.) And, sir, had it not been
FOR the knowledge that had, and that
hold at the present time. that 1 laid
myself open TO a proposition of this
Kind, 1 should most assuredly have
lung it in his teeth How had you
aid yourself open TO be insulted in this
way, that restrained you from denounc-
ng the man who made this assault
Upon your honor? Because common
hospitality and common decency would 1
lot allow a man to curse him in his I
'wn house.
LAWS SENSE OF PROPERTY.
That's it: thai is what you meant in /
Tour speech of Saturday, when you said
f it were not for the knowledge that ,
'ou then had, and that you now have 5
md hold that you had laid myself !
pen 10 this proposition, l would have
n n there I