The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-02

went right to Mr.. Johnson of Ogden,
q lawyer, to ask his advice and John
son referred him to the police of this
city
Then Mr.. Dey began to offer excuses
Tor Law part in the conspiracy to en-
trap Mr.. McCune. He instanced decoy
letters in the mail department as legiti-
mate means to catch criminals. 1t
took strain upon his conscience, said
Mr.. Dey, Ito follow this method, but it
was word against word, and he needed
legal evidence" Then Mr.. Dey de-
scribed the conversation over the tele-
phone, and asked why it was that Mr.
McCune insisted that Law should not
talk TO him over the wire If nothing
wrons had been suggested. He turned
to the Interview in the drug store.
Mr.. Law offered to vote for Mr. Nc
Cune for $1,000" said Mr.. Dey, and
what did Mr.. McCune do, and what did
he say?"
MI. Day described the trip across the
street, Just before the money is alleged
to have changed hands.
What was the relationship betwee
them?" asked the speaker, if Mr.. Nc
Cune could say to Law, Don't vote for
me on roll call?' Does that not show
that there is passive or, other kind OF
ownership or control; that at his beck.
at his whim, he could dictate when,
where how? Here, in confederation of
that, he boldly says that he dispatched
Mr.. Christensen to say to Mr.. Lester
Taylor, who he understood was going
to vote for him, Tell Lester Taylor not
to vote for me on roll call but change
the vote afterward. By what right
was Mr. McCune lording it over these
two men in that way, in the one talk
ing personally and in the other sending
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and how they should do it? It shows,
at all events relationship existing
there at that time that is more than
common
The speaker said that it was strange
to conceive that the two should shake
hands at parting if Law had insulted
McCune by Offering to vote for him for
$1,000. In the handShake," said he,
"all l have to say is that do not think
that MIR. McCune was out of the way
afterwards when he said he noticed two
fingers were drawn UP. 1t had to be.
In The handshake, if there was. money
there, and they opened their hands.
that money would have fallen to the
walk to the ground. 1t had to be done
before the handshake parting in some
manner, and held by Mr.. Law. l do
not think there is anything in all that
proposition: that was naturally the way
it was done on both sides. | do not
attribute any dishonesty to Mr.. Nc
Cune, but it has no effect because it
may all be so and still all happened
that Mr. Law said. So that in that
statement not necessarily is Mr.. Nc
Cune in error"
Mr.. Dey took up, then, the Deseret
News interview, where Mr.. McCune
was quoted as saying that he had
never been alone with Law in his life.
He accused Mr.. McCune of purposely
misstating the affair in that interview,
and said that he considered that at the
meeting in the drug store, and in walk
ing across the street, the two were en-
tirely alone. He turned to the question
of motive then, and said: But they
say Mr.. McCune had votes enough:
that he had no motive. What does Mr..
McCune say? He says he was hopeful;
he expected to win. He had been work.
ing the night before, Sloan Winning and
dining Law, Christensen with Taylor
(this is not correct, Mr.. Christensen did
not talk to Taylor until Saturday morn
ing), McCune at Moses Thatcher's with
two of the members. They expected
all these things to be contaminated in
the morning; but if he was SO sure,
why did he not tell Law over the
phone that he did not need his vote?
But he did not do that. He consultS
With NJ. Thatcher and with Mr.. Monsoon
l think: he puts ON his hat and cane
and goes alone. He might have taken
any of them, and yet he did not, but
went alone" Mr.. Dey, for some rea-
son, broke short off here, leaving
himself up in the air. as it were, and
turned to the Nebeker incident, With
out reaching any kind of conclusion as
to Mr.. McCune's motives, without prov
ing that he had any motive in going to
see Law save the one that Mr.. McCune
himself confesses to-that of respond
ing cOurteously to Laws request for
a talk.
Referring to the Nebeker-S Sloan incl
dent, Mr. Dey made a. great point of
the request made by Mr.. Sloan that
Mr.. Nebeker be not angered by what
he was about to tell He recited the
in detail, and then turned
to the Jackson case, concerning which
he uttered series of mock heroic pla.ti-
tudes
To the Lapish incident Mr. Dey de-
voted a half hour, saying taht Mr.. Nc
Cune had studied the wants of the men
he needed, and that he appealed to La
pish through his invention, from which
he hoped TO CLEAN hundreds of thOus-
ands Of dollars. The Chambers contract
he considered, also, of a corrupt nature.
He considered the Callister story as
deeply significant in that it showed
how the rumors were going about the
Concluding, Mr.. Dey said that these
matters are serious, as they extend
further than TO Mr.. McCune. There
is no punishment for him." he said.
You are not here with power to pun
ish 1t is whether or not his actions
have been such that he should be re-
lol Nv hi oh honor in the
power of the state TO give to any man;
whether or not there has been moral
wrongful influences used,
and all about it. With men in his camp
from every county to work in his cause,
with the vast sums of money that he
has expended that you cOllate all
these circumstances, showing no ac-
count for them in any way. When you
gather together all the facts and Cir
surrounding the facts. is it
lis it within the principles of free gov
eminent and free rights, where every
man should be allowed to vote, and be
only permitted to vote uninfiuenced by
any improper motives whatever. If
these methods are to be made the
groundwork fo~ the future OF Utah-if
they are, gentlemen, these Offices viii
hereafter be sold to the highest bidder,
no matter how many distinguished men
we bay nave that are DetteT, lney VIII
go to him who can spend his money by
the tens and tens of thousands for all
and can influence church and
candidates and campaign committees,
can liquidate bills for the chairmen of
committees of Salt Lake. who
is a member of this Legislature with I'M
expected ferVor.
"Oh, these things are no doubt in
that way, gentlemen, and l simply ask
you whatever your judgment may be,
whatever the determination of this
cause is, preserve the honor of Utah"
JUDGE DECISIONS ADDRESS.
Complete Kidding of the Testimony
Given By Law.
Judge Dickson followed Judge Dey
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