The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-03-09
THE MORGAN CHARGES.

7 HE ACCUSATION OF bribery filed
by Senator Morgan of Boulder
count in the Colorado contest
case is an old but none the less
filthy political trick We doubt If Sem
ator Brown viii ind half a dozen hon
est men in the whole state OF Colorado
and we are willing to let down the
bars and include other states-who will
lake the slightest stock i'm his charges
His Republican colleagues may. and
probably viii. for petty partisan rea-
sons. pretend to believe him. and we
will have a long investigation, fol-
lowed by majority and minority re
ports.
The whole thing is so utterly sense
less that the nerve of Morgan is sur
prising. J. NJ. Herbert, one of the men
accused OF paying Morgan bride money
u vote for Governor Adams, is known
throughout the west as a clean. ca
pablo honest railroad man. The posi-
tion he holds he has earned by his own
merit, and every man. woman and
child who knows him will be content
with his simple denial Of Morgans
charge.
The character of Daniel Sullivan,
postmaster OF Cripple Creek, who is al
legged to be Mr.. Herbert's accompIice
in the crime, is not so we'll known out
side OF his own state. But the very
fact that he is associated with Mr. Her
bert is sufficient to convince outsiders
that he is innocent, as he says. It
would be interesting now to know
something of the character of the man
Morgan Has his political life been
free from blemish? Has his private life
been above reproach? Is he known as
an honest. law-abiding citizen?
The fact that he allowed himself to
be counted into the Colorado state SEN
ate by his partisan colleagues in the
face of an adverse majority Of 900
votes in his district, is at least one
rount against him. It is not at all sur
prising that such a man should be an
lDtense Peabody partisan. 1t would.
Indeed, be surprising if he were not
willing to go to any length to over
throw the viii of the people as ex-
pressed in the election of Governor
Adams by a large majority of the hon
EST ballots cast in Colorado last No
vember
Still more dana cling to Morgan than
all this is the testimony of the au-
ditor of the Northern Coal company.
who was placed on the stand in the
legislative hearing Ito tell of certain
dealings his company had with Sena-
tor Morgan when he was a coal miner
of Lafayette, Colo. and president of
the local union of the United Mine
Workers Of America. Smith swore
that during 1905 his company paid
Morgan TO make periodical reports of
the dOinGs of the union at it's Sc
cret meetings. presided over by Nor
gan, and also To use his influence in
Preventing a strike. Several. receipts
were offered in evidence signed n.
Morgan which signature Smith said
WAS that OF Senator Morgan for sums
ranging from SIOc TO $3.50. Smith said
these sums wefe paid for services ron
derad as above stated. Another re-
ccipt FOR . considerable sum OF money
was offered to show that Morgan had
been paid on the coal company TO work
against the cigLt-hOur bill while he
was "a member of tho house labor com
nlittee which had the bill in charge"
The only possible conclusion that can
be- reached in this case is that the
charges against Herbert and Sullivan
are deliberately false and malicious.
that they We're Concocted for the Dur
pose OF beclouding the real issue. and
that the man who has made them
should be driven out Of the senate and
returned to obscurity. or worse