Arizona republican., 1907-08-29
THE WAR OF WORDS.

San Francisco. Aug. 2S-Henry T.
 Ianley. paying teller of the Wells Fargo Nevada National Bank was the first witness called this morning in the Glass bribery trial. His testimony was identical with that given yesterday by other bank men in support of the claim b- the prosecution that checks of the Pacific States Telephone com pany required the signature of either Louis Glass or F.. J. Zimmer. during the period of the alleged briberies. Henry T. Scott was recalled to iden- tify the signature on various company vouchers.
 During the examination Heney and Delmas engaged in their first good natured badinage since they became opposing figures in the bribery graft prosecution. But all this breeze be- fore a gale. Last night when chief counsel Pillsbury was on the stand Delmas introduced in evil dence certain vouchers of the tele- phone company showing the payment monthly to Ruef of the sum of sl25o ostensibly as an attorne-'s fee, but really. the prosecution claims, to buy influence with the municipal officials The obvious intent of the defense was to suggest the idea that the telephone company "as the victim of extortion rather than guilty of the voluntary bribery alleged in the indictments against its officials. Some of these vouchers bore the approval and sigma ture of President Scott. Still tales were told Of later ones similarly ap- proved and signed for lesser monthly amounts. showing RueCs fees to have been cut down by order of Scott as was eventually proved. The latter vouchers Delmas did not offer in evil dence until today when Scott was un- der cross examination. Referring tO | the withholding of them. Heney ac- cused Delmas of practicing a trick of evasion. This aroused Delmas to reply 'i don't know what this individual means by a trick of evasion; but I pre- sume he used the term in a desire to be ungentlemanly. The truth is Pills bury first injected tine name of Ruef i into the proceedings"
 This is not so." interrupted Heney i 'Ruefs name has beeS in this ever since the beginning" Yes said | Delmas. Tit has been in by loud mouth ed dcclamations Of counsel but not by any particle of evidence until intro duced b. Pillsbury." Presently re- pulsing the attack made by Heney up- on the good faith of the objection made
 by himself. Delmas asserted that tho
 other side lost no opportunity to inter-
 ject an objection upon any purely technical point that might help the
 prosecution. Point out one such in-
 stance" cried Heney. 'I object if youl
 honor please" returned Delmas, "tC
 these rude and constant interruptions |, l repeat that the opposing counsel i'
 not trying the case in any spirit oi
 magnanimity toward the defendant
 To the contrary they sought to hold
 him by any means they could and
 sought to suppress anything that
 might be favorable to the defendant , That IS counsers right. We expect
 no quarter from him and we want
 none. We want him to do the very
 best he can"
 ! Heney replying said: The truth i.
 Delmas himself brought in the name
 of Ruef in cross examination of tho
 first supervisor who testified here and
 he did it with the undoubted purpose
 of arguing that Ruef was employed
 corruptlv by all bad corporations. tn,
 United Railroads. the Gas company and the rest of them. and the only good corporation that did not so en-
 ploy him was the Pacific States Tele- phone company Now the truth is tho
 Pacific States Telephone company em-
 ployed Ruef not because he was law
 yer but because it desired to purchase . influence over the fire department. tho
 electricians department and the board of supervisors and other city officials
 with whom the company came in con- | tact in the course of business. w. adopted the policy of giving Delmas all the rope he wanted and we were sure
 he would hang himself in time. Our objections interposed throughout the three weeks trial have not exceeded ! twenty and those three weeks hay, been largely occupied with cross ex- aminations by the defense. I even permitted Delmas to introduce hearsay I testimony in the hope that he would make as fair fight as always make. but as usual he seeks to prevent bringing out the whole truth
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