Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-08-03
THE coNGER FAKE INTERVIEW

Inc Des Moines Capitals Coneer fake
interview exposure is being worked for
all 1t is worth, and more too nv IN.
ahti-Cummins forces, but with rational
minds 1t can not be made effective
against the leading candidate. The con.
fession of Mr.. Young has been a. deli
eious morsel for the Register editor. who
is not inclined to give the author of it
much rest. This mornings Register
makes ar effort to corner Mr.. Young in
the following statement:
Col" Lafe Young INDUCED himself to
the extent of two columns in Friday
rights Capital, furnishing the second
volume of his Confessions of a Fakir.,,
The Register hastens to make public the
revised statement of how the Conger
fake Interview was published by the
Capital and how silence as to its being
written in Mr.. Young's Office without
the knowledge or authorization of Min
ister Conger was maintained for nearly
two weeks.
In his first confessional card "Col."
LATE Young said: The matter was not
submitted to me, I being out of the city,
end was not submitted to the person
representing me in my absence"
In his revised confession "Col.'
Young says he was in the city the day
that the fake appeared, having returned
from Storm Lake at noon, and saw the
matter that very day in his paper
While the second statement doesn't
track with the first made by the colonel,
- 10 n L., ~
Payne, editor of the Nevada Represent
ative, to the effect. as related, that he
listed the Capital office the day that the
fake was published, was taken to the
press room of the Capital by COL
Young in person and showed the Conge1
interview as it was being printed at the
time in the Capital.
This story about what Mr.. Payne
knows of the presence Of Col" Young
in the city the day that the fake APP
peared In his paper was first printed by
| the Des Moines Leader and later by tbs
Des Moines News. In this quarrel Of the
faithful the Register is merely a specta-
tor. Mr.. Payne does not mention his ex-
| perience in his own paper, however, but
he does significantly call upon COL
| Young for the whole truth, as seen b!
the excerpt from Mr.. Payne's paper IL
i Friday mornings Register. 1t is related
However, that Mr.. Payne started for tn,
Northwestern depot to take trair
4 home on the afternoon of July 10; tina
| he was called into the Capital office b,
Mr. Young, who took him to the pres
room where the Capital was then be
ing printed; and that he was shown thu
| fake as 1t appeared. Therefore his re
| quest directed to Mr.. Young to tell tn
| whole truth, Mr.. Payne having read TIN
! colonels first confessional card to tn
1 effect that "the matter was not sub
| mitted to me, being out of the city
4 and was not submitted to the person
representing me in my absence"
Col" Young exhibits commendabl
! spirit OF frankness in his second comics
sional card by declaring that he spen
the night of July II at Storm Lake. HI
4 says he returned to Des Moines at
| O'Clock, July 1s. He says he went to tn
Capital Office about o'clock. He say
the paper had been printed at that time
He says Sin the evening" he looked owe
/ the Conger fake interview, and was no
4 pleased when he found that it was no
4 genuine." Mr.. Payne is quoted as say
ing Mr.. Young showed him the inter
view in the Capital while the press wa
running, taking him to the press room I
get the paper. Mr.. Payne will be hear
from the coming week, possibly.
The Des Moines Capital says In ex
PLANTATION OF the matter:
"The editor of the Capital went I
storm Lake ON the Milwaukee train o.
the afternoon OF July IL; remained q
night in Storm Lake, stopping ct ii