Mexico weekly ledger., 1901-12-05

every dollar received by you or handled
by you In either those campaigns was
accounted for in thestatements which
were afterwards filed BY the treas
urer."
A. eyes, sir"
Q. "Do you know whether the tele-
phone interests to this State made
contribution of any character, directly
or indirectly, to the State Committee
during the years 1896 or 1893 or at any
other timer
A. ~ never heard OF the telephone
company in connection with a contrl-
button until this matter came up
@. "Do you know, or did you know
at any time, either during the cam
paign Of 1896 or 1893, or at any other
time, Of any contributisn having been
made by the stock yards people2h
RECEIVED NO MONEY FROM STOCK
YARDS.
A. II never did, sir"
@. "You may state whether or not
you ever received from any represen-
tative Of the officers, or any officer of
the Stock Yards Company, or the tel
ephone companies, a dollar in sub
scription, either by check or by cur
rency."
A. mo, sir.n
Q. "You may state whether or not
you ever received from the city rail-
roads Of st. Louis, or from the the
brewers, a dollar Of money, either by
check or currency, during the years
1896 and 1898, or at any other time.n
A. ~ think that in 1896 Mr.. Stock
sent the committee a check for hun
dred dollars"
@. "Was it his personal check?n
A. "Yes."
@. "For $10O?n
| A. "Yes, $780,"
Q. "Was that the only contribu-
tion received by you from either the
street cars or street railways Of this
State or the brewer interests"
A. 81 never knew Of the street
railroads contributing dollar. That
is all the money, that which have
stated, that | received at all, or the
committee received
MONEY DISTRIBUTED IN JACKSON co.
Q. "Mr. Cook, did you know of any
disbursement of any moneys collected
by Mr.. Seibert having been made in
Kansas City or Jackson county?"
A. "Yes, sir"
@. "To whom and In what amounts
during the years 1896 and 1898, Or 1899
or 190O?"
| A. "Well, as to Mr.. Seibert, !
Idonit suppose he had anything to do
with those matters in 1896 or in 1898,
so far as Kansas City was concerned. l
paid some money, l think, to Mr..
Walsh here; | don't remember just
what the amount was.
@. "For what purposegn
A. "And i'm 1896. 1t was for CAM
paign purposes here in this county"
@. "Did you pay any moneys here
to Frank Sebree?"
A. ~ think so; ! don't remember.
1t might have been it was paid to Mr..
Sebree instead of Mr. Walsh. l am
not sure about that. | know Isent
the money to jackson county. We got
practically nothing from here. | sent
money here in all those campaigns. In
| 1900, my understanding has always
been, that at the request of Mr.. Walsh
Mr.. Seibert asked Mr.. Holmes Of the
Metropolitan Street Railway Compa-
up here to contribute $1,000 to your
local campaign"
SAYS sEIBERT PAID MONEY TO WALSH.
@. BY Mr.. Jourdan: "Do you know
whether or not any money was paid
to Mr.. Walsh during that campaign
by Mr.. Selbert?n
| A. "YeS, sir. He sent him, l know,
at one time check for 81, 900 and ad-
Iditional money to others here. don't
know Just the amount, | was not so
familiar with the campaign Of 1900 as
| / was with the Others. But know
that we were helping the party in
this county, as We did in nearly all
the counties where they had hard
| fights
/ @. "Mr. Cook, was this money In
the close counties used for the pur'
pose of getting out the yote?"
A. "Yes, sir; that was the under
standing; they had to put men on
horseback and ride the countless
@. "You don't know the circum'
stances under which that Thousand
dollars was paid at all, do you?"
A. "No, sir; nothing more than
that supposed it was paid in the reg
, ular way of contributions to campaign
! funds here in your county to help youi
, county, as l had sent money before.
@. "Your idea is that they received
the money from the corporations with
out any agreement:"
A. 81 know there was no money
paid with any agreement whatever
There was never but one proposition
of that kind made, and in that one
you figured, too
Q. "In Which figured? You wer'
there, then, were you?"
A. 81 believe that you remembel
the circumstances very well. dom
know that you made the proposition
There never was but one made. Tha
: was in the campaign of 1896. Their
was a contest down in the Eighteenth
: Senatorial District, made between Mr.
, Boyden and Mr.. Tandy. The cas-
came before the committee. For sil
weeks beforehand l had looked into 1t
: and Investigated it thoroughly, and
found out it would be absolutely i'm
possible to elect Mr.. Boyden. He wa
regarded as running in the interest
OF the Republican nominee-Mr. Ian
drum, | think his name was. con
suited and cOrresponded with Demo
Gratis in every county in the Senatoria
district. When the committee me
l laid these facts before it, and show