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

better to be elected by Democratic
votes and il ne does agree to vote for
you at ali. tell him not to do
IL until after roll call
Then McCune starts over, having his
overcoat on, cane in his hand, walked
across to the Wasatch drug store, and
there, according to Mr.. Law, they
greeted each other and Law suggested
that they go to his room and McCune
said no, or demurTed, he kicked over
the traces a little about it, and sug-
2eSted that they go to a saloon and
Law wasn't willing to go to a saloon
because he said he thought McCune
wanted to take him into some wine
room where he wouldn't have witnesses
TO McCune's perfidy, and finally they
sat down on that settee in the drug
store; ] suppose each of you gentlemen
have walked in there to see it. You
can see how open it is to the view OF
anybody who was in the drug store, as
Mr.. Horn was. where they could be
seen. They sat there and this corrupt
bargain was made there and then.
ATTEMPT AT MYSTERY.
Now, according to Mr. Horn, who was
there, and he knew there was some
thing mysterious. because Law had i'm
pressed him with the fact; in the first
place Law went in there, he wanted to
throw an air of mystery about it, from
the outset; he wanted to ill the mind
o. Horn with suspicion, didn't he? he
went TO Horn and said to him, I want
to use the telephone; 1 want to talk
with McCune and l don't want to be
heard, and then when he called up Nc
Cune, after that, he turns to Horn
again and says, ''McCune is coming
here and 1 want to talk with him pri-
vately, so nobody can hear what we
are going TO say What was the pur-
nOcp. Of fbaf3 hid bp pyDapr fba1l 4 n
make Horn witness? No, according
to Law he expected that when AIcCune
came TO him he would walk over to the
room where Pratt and Sheets and Bur-
bidge and Hilton could be the witnesses
who would testify in his corroboration
Nevertheless, while he did not expect
Horn tC be a witness. While he did not
expect the transaction was to take place
there in that drug store, we find him
saying TO Horn things that he had no
motive in saying on earth, unless 1T was
TO fill the mind of Horn with suspicion,
attracting his attention.
They sat down there and he said he
would vote for McCune, ! do not un-
dertake to give the exact language
for $4,000 and McCune said no, he
wouldn't give that, and they came down
TO $4,000, and $4,000 and $1,000 and $1,000
and finally agreed upon $1,000 and Nc
Cune said he would pay him the 800
down and the balance this afternoon,
and Law said, Lets go over TO the
room,' and AIcCune said, wait until
l get some change, and he stepped out,
and that was the way that was done
according TO Mr.. Horn. These two men
sat there as though naturally engaged
in any kind of conversation on the set
tee, side by side, with their arms down
this way talking TO each other and he
says when they got through Mr.. Nc
Cune got up as though he were an
noyed. Isn't that most significant
thing2 Is Horn a. friend of ours? Has
he been working for McCune? No. His
attention had been attracted to these
men by the suspicious remarks OF Law.
He knew that McCune was a candidate
for the senate and knew that Law was
a Republican and a Republican who
had been voting against McCune. He
knew that Law had just said to him
that he wanted TO talk with McCune
d little and when he comes here
don't want to be interrupted, and we
want to have a private talk and 1 don't
want anybody to hear what am say
ing to him.
That, of course, invited his attention
to these people, as it would yours or
mine, and watching them as the con-
Nersation went along, as it was ended,
0e says McCune got up as though he
were annoyed and put out. Is there
corroborate NIcCune? If the whole
thing had been agreed upon. just how
1t was to be carried out, what was to
make Mr.. McCune arise from that con-
Versation as though he were annoyed
and VeXed?
LAW IMPEACHED BY PRATT.
Now, another circumstances wherein
MI Law is impeached by Mr. Sheets,
by Chief Pratt. : omitted that in con-
nection with the Tuesday night inter
view in the headquarters. You remem-
Der what Law sad about being taken
into that private room, and was alone
there with McCune for about twenty
five minutes-that Pratt says that on
Friday night Law told him that he
went up to McCune's headquarters
that night, after leaving the cafe, and
there were q good many people in the
room, and they sat down there and,
one after another. went out. until they
had all dwindled away and nobody was
left there but Law and McCune in the
room. How did Pratt get that infor-
nation? How did Pratt get that i'm
precision, unless he got it from Law?
He sWearS that LaW told him that.
and il Law told him that Friday night,
then Law has lied before this commit
tee. Because that is not what he tells
us. Think of it, viii you, each of you?
How can you account for the fact that
Chief Pratt, interested in this matter
as he was. of course, would keep these
things in his mind; it was only a day
or two after il had happened until he
was called TO the witness stand. How
did he get that impression. If Law
had said to Pratt. Mcclure took me
iato q private room, where he and |
were alone for twenty or twenty-five
minutes. and there and then made this
proposition TO me- how, in the name
of all that is just and reasonable, did
Pratt get the impression that Law said ]
10 him, They went up there in the
room. and there We're a number of peo-
pie there. ana they went away. one at |
q time, until they all dWindied away 1
and nobody was left in the room but I
McCune and Law? And Sheets says |
the same thing He says he heard that /
same thing that night at police head 1
quarters. I cannot tell for sure /
whether it was Law that said it" But, |
of course nobody but Law could say 1t; |
nobody but Law knew it; nobody could I
have gotten any such impression as to /
that except from Law. So we have !
these two men telling US that when !
Law told them about that Tuesday Z
night interview, on the Friday evening, 1
while they were cOncocting this !
scheme, that he told an entirely and /
materially different story to what he (
told on the floor OF the hOuse-material- |
~ different TO that which he swore to |
here before this. committee. Again, 1
Pratt says. and Sheets says, and Bur 1
biGge and Hilton. all unite in saying
Mr. Law was recalled TO the witness /
stand two ar three times ana never I
asked 10 explain it-that on the fatal 4
Saturday morning, when they were ali /
up there in the room together, and Law
came there Just before 10 o'clock, and I
Just before they were going to explode !
the bomb that Mr. Law mad been fig J
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