The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-21
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conversation was which occurred a.
that time between you and Mr.. Nc
Cune. Mr.. McCune asked me if l had
anything against him personally.
CUMMINGS ASKS A QUESTION.
Mr.. Cummings would like to ask
the witness a question.
Questions by Mr.. Cummings:
Did anyone see you or hear Mr.. Nc
Cune ask you to go into the private
room with him2 | don't know whether
anyone heard him.
Was there any other person in the
room when ne asked you to go into this
private room? There were other par
ties in the room,
Can you name some of them? Mr..
Monson and Mr.. Sloan were there, and
i think there were other parties that I
am not acquainted with.
Questions by Mr.. Evans:
Proceed, Mr.. Law; what was said to
you at that time? Mr.. McCune asked
NE if l mad anything against him
personally and l told him no, and he
said that he had found me to be a
very hard man to get acquainted with.
He said he couldn't understand me,
and / told him that l didn't think
was hard TO understand and he said
that he didn't see why ! couldn't vote
for him. and we talked along those
lines for a few moments and finally
Mr.. MCCune said TO me that he intend
ed to win this fight. and that he had
spent too much energy and money in
this fight TO lose it now, and that he
proposed to win il, and we were sitting
at a small table, a little larger than
that one, and he leaned over the table
and said to me, Law, If you Will vote
for me tomorrow, you name your own
considera ton and terms" That is
about the substance.
Go on; what did You say? I told him
that l couldn't do if.
COULDN'T VOTE FOR A DEMO
Graf
Mr.. Dickson-Couldn't do what?
That I couldn't do it; 1 told him that
politically he and 1 were utterly OPP
posed TO each other. that his political
principles were not mine and that [
wouldn't vote for a man for any other
consideration.
Mr.. Whitney-This was on Tuesday
night. Mr. Law? This was on Tues
day night.
Questions by Mr.. Evans:
AT the headquarters? Yes, sir, and
Mr. McCune's son came in and told his
father something about it being time
TO go and Immediately after IIr. Mon
son and Mr.. Sloan came in and Mr..
McCUne bid us good night and went
home, 1 presume. He went away at
least.
Did you leave at that time? No, sir.
Did McCune leave? Yes, sir.
You still remained, did YOU? He
left the room; 1 don't know where he
went.
How long did you remain there that
night? Until about a quarter to u.
Now. to whom, if anybody, did you
disclose this statement first, after that
time? ! believe there was only one
person that l disclosed it to and that
person was Senator Howell.
Senator HOWell2 Yes, sir.
A member of the committee here?
Yes sir.
Did you ever disclose it to anybody
else? Yes. sir.
Now, tell me when and where il was
that you disclosed it to Senator
Howell? It was in a restaurant on
Second South street, on the south side
Of the street; l don't remember the
name of the restaurant.
When after Tuesday night? 1 think /
il was on Thursday.
And did you and Senator Eowell |
have Il talk about it or any consider |
able talk2 No. sir
Did you tell him the details or only (
generally? Only-that was all that l !
told him.
SENATOR HOWELL'S INQUIRY.
Mr. Howen-Will you please repeat /
just what you said to me. l didn't
quite get what you said about what /
part of that conversation you did tell /
me told Senator Howell that in a
conversation which ! had held with
Mr.. McCune that he had told me if l
would vote for him on a certain &C
casion that he wOuld-that l could
name my own consideration and terms.
Questions by Mr.. Evans:
Well. to whom afterwards, if any L
one. did you disclose this matter? First
to Representative Johnson of Weber
When was that? Friday night.
Where? In the lobby of the knuts-
ford hotei
What did you say to him about il? I
told him substantially what converse
ton had taken place between he and
3Ir. AIcCUne on Tuesday night. and
also what had already happened that
night between myself and one Of MI
AIcCune's representatives.
" hat was that that happened that
night2 II was Il conversation similar
10 the one l had held With Mr.. Nc
Cune in his private room IN his head
quarters.
With whom did you have that con
Versation2 Mr. Robert Sloan.
Can you give the conversation WhlCit
You had with Mr.. Sloan in substance?
] can give the substance Of IL.
RELATED SLOAN'S ARGUMENT.
Wei, give it as nearly as You can.
Ar. Sloan represented TO me that mas
much as I had broke away from Mr..
Cannon and started TO vote Tor Dem
ocrat. he didn't see any reason Why 1
couldn't support one Democrat as well
Is another. provided politically they
We're all right, and We conNerSed Tor
some time on that subject, talked the
matter back and forth, and Mr.. Sloan
told me that he thought the best thing ,
could do was 20 take into consider&-
lion that / was a young man, and that :
had my way TO make N the worlo, !
ana that I was poor. and that if I had
10 go up against the world without any :
money and against the circumstances {
that 1 would be very apt TO make !
failure of life, and that the best thing ,
could do would be to take whatever / ,
chances or considerations that was OF {
fered TO me, and he also sold me that
he was authorized 10 speak for AIR. Nc
Cune. ,
Well, was that all the conversation!
That was the substance Of the CONVEX
sation.
The substance Of all the conversation
al shat time2 Yes. sir.
What tine of night was that, do you
remember That was between t1e I
hours CT O'Clock and 1880.
BY Mr.. Cummings-What night was :
that? Friday night. u
By Mr.. EVans-In the conversation
which you had with REPRESENTATIVE :.
Johnson, you disclosed this matter with
The other2 Yes, sir, and also that Mr. b
Sloan had made an appointment with |
me to meet Mr. McCune at 10 o'clock II
Saturday morning. if 1 should decide
to consider their propositions favor p
ably; that | would let them know at IL ,
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