The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-03-07
LIMIT REACHED
IN PEABODY PLOT
Republicans Charged With Buying a
Vote For Adams.
INVESTIGATION ON FOOT
ACCUSED MEN FOREMOST CITI-
ZENS OF COLORADO.

4 n tee WIS dppOinAtQ NOudS OS III
general assembly of Colorado to
investigate charges of bribery in the
| contest for the governorship. Charges
| have been made and published in the
| local newspapers to the effect that d
| fund had been raised by corporations
! and was being used to purchase votes
| for James H. Peabody, who seeks the
| office held by AIva Adams, but no no
! tice of them was taken by the general
| assembly. Today, Immediately after
| the joint convention, which is hearing
/ arguments in the contest. was called
| to order, Senator w Morgan, Repub-
| lican of Boulder, STROBE down the aisle
| holding alOft a paper which he handed
| to the presiding officer and which was
| read to the assembly by a clerk at the
! request of the writer This communi-
cation was as follows:
Morean's Statement.
"To Jesse F. Mcdonald, as president
| of the senate and as presiding officer
| of the joint convention of the Fifteenth
! general assembly:
Sir have to inform you that on
/ the I'd day of March, 1905, one James NJ.
| Herbert and Daniel Sullivan offered
and promised to pay the undersigned
| the sum of 81 500 to vote for the Hon.
| Alva Adams for governor in the con-
| test now pending before this joint coll
ventiOn. OF this sum. said James NJ
! Herbert paid the sum of $3.50. This
| money have given to George Stidger,
district attorney, for the city and cOun-
! ~ of Denver, for his official use. /
| have also given to him such informa
/ ton as he requires in his official capaci-
| ~. I also desire TO lay the matter be
/ fore the people of the state, the senate
| and the joint convention, as it affects
the question now pending before this
] convention.
(Signed) "R. w. MORGAN"
Silence fell upon the joint convention
| for several minutes after the reading of
/ Senator Morgan's statement. Then
| Representative 3. J. O'CoDnen, a Dem
! ocrat, expressed surprise that the mem
| bers Of the Republican majority ap-
! parently did not propose to take any
] action on the charges, and he moved
/ that a committee of five be appointed
! by the chair to make a thorough inves-
| LEGATION of the whole matter and report
| before a vote is taken in the contest.
| After brief debate, in which several
| Republicans joined in the demand for
| an investigation, the motion was unan-
| mOusly carried. Lieutenant Governor
| Mcdonald named Senator COrnfOrth
! and Representatives Sherwin and
| Bromley (Republicans), and Senator
! Ballinger and Representative O'Connell
! Democrats), as the investigating COM
| mittee. The committee organized this
| afternoon by electing Senator Corn
forth chairman and began an inVestiga-
ton this evening
Accused Are Prominent Men.
James NJ. Herbert, whom Senator
| Morgan charged with having given him
| $3.50 as a bride, is vice president and
| general manager of the Colorado &
| Southern railroad, and stands in the
foremost ranks of railroad officials IL
| the United States. Daniel Sullivan,
who is accused by the senator of hav-
ing offered the alleged bride is post
/ master of Cripple Greek, and one of the
most prominent Republican workers in
| this state
Eight infomations charging bribery
and conspiracy were filed against
! Messrs. Herbert and Sullivan in the
criminal court by District Attorney
George NJ. Stidger almost simultaneous
| ~ with the springing of the sensation
| in the joint convention by Senator
| Morgan. Bonds for IS, 600 each were fur
nished by the accused men.
District Attorney Stidger said. in ex-
PLANTATION of the promptness with which
he was able to act, that the matter had
| been brought to his attention last Sat
Urday by Senator Morgan.
MIR. Herbert's Statement.
Mr.. Herbert issued the following
statement:
Mr.. Morgan came to my rooms in
lile bEOMn EdldCG nOlGl last nuISQdN.
with Mr.. Daniel Sullivan. Mr.. Nor
gan stated that he and his people were
for the seating of Mr.. Adams. that
Boulder county had gone for Mr.. Ad-
ans and the laboring people in his
section of the state were for Mr. Adj
ans, and he had told them he would
vote for Mr. Adams. and that he had
told Governor Adams the same thing;
that the pressure was so great from
the Peabody people that they might
Il 1, - ~
vote with them. as they were brow
beating and bulldozing many Republi-
can members of the legislature and
making threats against them in bust
ness and in politics. That he was con-
WINGED the Pea body people had no case.
Mr.. Morgan stated that he had been
offered $4,000 by Peabody people and he
ought TO have IS. 900 if he stood by Ad-
ans and incurred the enmity of the
Peabody people. / told him that /
would not pay any member of the leg
islature to vote one way or the other
in the governOrship contest. Mr.. Nor
gan was very insistent and finally said
he would take 81 500 I absolutely re-
fused to have anything to do with him
and he went away Mr.. Sullivan was
present during the entire conversation.
(Signed) y NJ. HERBERT"
Postmaster SulIiVan's Story.
Senator Morgan approached me sew
eral days ago" said Postmaster SulIi-
van. and told me in the presence of
witnesses that he was anxious to vote
for Governor Adams because Peabody
! had failed to make a case. I told him
that I had always believed that he was
tied up to the Peabody side but he We
hemently denied the charge. He plead
ed with me to take him to Mr.. Herbert
and while | suspected that he was not
honest with us, I could see no harm in
permitting him TO have talk with Mr.
Herbert. Fortunately. 1 was in the
room during the conversation and
heard him solicit the bride and Mr.
Herbert emphatically decline to con-
slider it"
Democrats charge that Senator Nor
gan's statement is part Of criminal
plot concocted in the interest of former
Governor Peabody.
Part of Deep Laid Plot.
Il do not believe the charges" Gov
ernor Adams said in reply TO a ques-
ton. "and l believe that they are made
simply part of the programme. Sen
atOr Morgan came in to see me of his