The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-11

looted his house. That was all there
was to it. And it was SO much more
honorable than the petty part played
by Law that the comparison is an in
suit to the robbers of Rome.
1t was the corruptiye influence Of
money that sent heroes to America,
says Eighty-Dollar Law. Yet he would
not have left the wealth of the old world
according to his own story. He went
frequently to the headquarters of the
gentleman he alleged was trying to
bride him; he ate salt with him. broke
bread with him, drank wine with him.
He telephoned for him, he insisted up
on seeing him personality he asked
for a conference, he tried to induce
him to go to his lodgings with him.
When the gentleman refused and start
ed across the street, Law followed at
his heels 1t was important for Law to
carry out his part of the conspiracy
against the wealth that very morning.
He wanted to be bribed at once, for an
election was at hand.
His was not the conduct of a hero
fleeing from one who had designs upon
his honor 1t was the attitude Of a
mendicant seeking aims, a prostitute
looking for a customer. And when he
likens his criminal cunning to the lofty
sentiments of the men who settled
America, he ISLANDERS them.
Eighty-Dollar Law may be a hero in
the eyes of the Salt Lake Tribune. His
Republicanism TALES with its own. His
moral standard was evidently taken
from its columns. His purpose was its
purpose, and his infamy its delight.
But what standing has Eighty-Dollar
Law with real Republicans. with hon
est members of that party, With men
who despise traitors and do not hesitate
to denounee them. no matter what tick
ct bore their names?
Representative Sorensen, one of the
most consistent, able Republicans in
the house. after Law had sprung his
Montana sensation" said:
Il deny that the charges made
against MIR. McCune are made by a Re
publican. The accuser is not q Repub-
lican; he is a half breed Democrat. I
want to say that the Republicans on
this side of the house are not STOPPING
to such business as that. We are con-
Quoting our part of this contest open
and above board
And Representative Robinson, who
likewise voted from start to finish for
Republican candidates to the senate,
as the leader of the Republican forces
in the legislature, disowned Eighty
Dollar Law and denounced him as a
renegade Republican. Mr.. Robinson
said:
Il shall try to be dispassionate in
what little 1 may say. In relation to
Mr.. Law being Republican, 1 want
to say that in our first caucus, after
various propositions had been dis
cussed, he said that he had found out
that he was not a verY good Republic
can, and 1 now bear testimony to the
fact that he is not good Republican.
He has not participated in our eau
cuses; he has not voted with US; he
has been ostracised by the party, and
is disowned by it. 1 denounce him as a
Republican, and not only as Repub-
lican, but as a citizen. I denounce any
man who will stoop to such conditions
and put himself in position to be
either bought or sold, and who will
plan to induce or inveigle another into
such nefarious scheme"
Outside of the confessed conspirators
and the alleged Democrats who have
secretly encouraged Law, the man is
regarded as a moral degenerate and a
noliticaI outoaSt