Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-14

Senator Clark. once he had demonstrated |
with the senator concerning Whitesides as a !
well known supporter of DAILY, but the SEN
ator had, he said, assured him that White
sides fidelity was assured because of the
fact that he CWhitesides) was in trouble with
the Clark opponents over a building he was
constructing in Butte. The witness also
said that he had seen the senator at his
rooms at the Helena hotel a short time after
the Whitesides' exposure and had asked him
what he proposed to do, when the senator
had replied:
There is only one thing to do and that is
to make the people believe that the DAILY
gang have furnished the money and have
put up "A conspiracy against us
Il asked him. continued the witness, "lf
he could make that stick, to which he re-
Piled. There is no trouble about that, be-
cause if we put up a good excuse the people
will believe us and we can again get the
members together"
The witness also detailed a conversation
which he said he had had with Senator
Clark upon the eve of the investigation by
the supreme court, in which he told the
senator that Tom Lyons, one Of the senator's
workers., had threatened 10 go into court
and testify against Clark because the lat
ter's friends had not kept their promises to
him. According to the witness the senator
had then replied: Il don't owe these (using
an offensive phrase anything. l have paid
them all they asked. ! am under no obliga-
tion to them and ! expect them to do as they
agreed to do by me-
His Son Ia See Lyons.
Hewett said, however, that Clark added
that he would have his son see Lyons. He
said that Clark had often spoken to him of
his son and of Messr5. Welcome, Bickford,
Steele and others as his friends in the scna-
torial fight. Welcome and Charley Clark
were regarded as the senator's especial rep
rCsentatives,
On cross-c examination Hewett said he was
a republican and not especially interested in
any of the senatorial candidates. He had
"iust drifted into the contest. He pro-
nounccd as incorrect the report of the testi-
mony taken before the Lewis and CLARK
county grand jury furnished the committee
by the memorialists, and he added that he
had not told all the facts to the jury. In,
r deed. he had never told all to anyone unit.
, he had given the details 10 Birney, one o
> the attorneys for The memorialists in Wash.
ingtcn. a few days since.
5 Senator Faulkner's quCations were devote.
l to flowing Inconsistency on the part OF tn
witness in refusing to give the details u
4 Montana representatives Of the prosecution
0 whom he knew, and then giving them t
e Birney, whom he did not know, He aske
p Hcwott whether BirHey had not promise
, to see that he was taken care Of, but tn
witneg5 replied emphatically in the mega
@ tive. adding that he had received nothin
IS and M. promise OF anything from The anti
G Clark people for his part in this proceed
. ing"
Under pre- sure he said that when ne wor
q before the grand jury he had desired not 2
reveal ali his transactions during the sittig
of the legislature. He had only replied
questions asked him and he did not con
slider that he had p]erIured himself in with
h holding some OF the facts, He had. hoW