The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-16

long look out of the window. "Last
night [ gathered my family about
me in this prison house of mine and
prepared them for the act I had de-
termined upon, That would mean one
day of sorrow. To go on would have
meant months of agony and death.
Does Not Fear Sentence.
81 don I know what my sentence will
be. For myself do not greatly care.
l say TO you now, and You can judge IL
/ boast, that no man possesses physical
nerve more than / do. l could face a
crowd Of five thousand men, of ten
thousand men, everyone with a rope
in his hand and calling for my life.
could face them calmly and meet my
end without finching. But the suffering
Of those ! love ] could endure no long
er. | say do not know what my SEN
| tence will be. Ii it be five years across
the bay, / can meet that when IL comes.
| believe that with my personality and
leaving out OF consideration tho feel
| ings of those who love me, and have
stood by me, could spend FIVE years
in San Quentin almost as comfortably
as in hotel al Napa Springs. But If
the step L took this morning had meant
, Eve years, or fourteen years. or four
! teen hundred years the fear of that
would not have deferred me.
[ have made TO confession. ! know
much, Some things L shall tell, some
, things / shall not tell Whenever an
innocent man has been forced in cor
ruption against his Will, that man
shall protect, Whenever man, be
he high or low, has entered into cor
ruptiop, with his eyes open. that man
shall expose.
Was Weary Of Schmitz.
''I will not say at the present mo-
meuS that Mayor Schmltz is guilty of
the charges that have been brought
against him or that he is innocent I
Will say this; | wanted to break away
from Schmitz before his collection a
year ago last November and said 70
him; Il am sick of the whole thing
and | want to get out. I can't stand
for all these labor union buns YOU have
gathered around YOU and will appoint.
They would cat the paint off house.
In answer, the Mayor begged me TO
stay with him and put up the argu-
ment that these fellows must be allowed
their share or we could never hold the
much truth in that.
81 staid with Schmitz and 7 staid
with the machine that l, at great labor
and pains, had built up and assembled.
found then that ] had taken step
away from the high and clean ideals
with which, I earnestly assure you, I
originally entered the political field. I
found, in short. that to hold this ma
chine together I had to permit and
connive at corruption. In the state
of affairs existing, it was necessary.
But l myself never asked dollar Of
OF any man, never took a dishonest dol
lar from the public. Tho things 1 did
were things that hurt no one,
Failed to Keep Straight,
''Before the Doodle board of super
vlsors We're elected, [ warned them
against crookedness in office. Imme-
dlntely after their election / got them
together and l said 10 them: Now, You
-, if any one of YOU takes dollar.
I'll prosecute you myself, and I meant
it. ] was in earnest. But | found I
could not carry out my threat and keep
the machine from going to pieces.
Schmitz was right about that. And
so much of this corruption was need
less. Needless. ] mean, from the giver's
end OF the deal Take. for instance.
the trolley franchise. Everybody want
ed the street railways electrified. There
application had been merely and Gus.