The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-08
JUDGE BEATTY
SCORES BORAH
Method in the Madness of the
Idaho Senator Supposed to
Be Under indictment.
SEEKS TO OBSCURE ISSUE
STATEMENTS NOT ONLY FALSE
BUT CoWARpLY.
Special to The Herald.l

New York, May T. Judge Beatty of
Idaho, who was recently INTERVENE
| in Washington in Senator Borah's in
dictment. and who in turn was accused
by Borah with having used his judicial
position to further his political ambi-
tions and having used his judicial po-
sition TO force Borah's indictment, today
makes a vigorous attack on the new
| senator. In part Beatty says:
False and Cowardly.
81 did not commence this controversy;
I am only meeting the assault made by
BOrah. l did not exercise any influence
with the grand jury to have Borah or
any one else indicted. 1 confess that
such baseless and reckless charges COM
ing from one have never wronged and
a United States senator, are a surprise
to me. Not only are they false, but
they are cowardly. They were delayed
until 1 had left my home enroute for
long absence in foreign lands. He
knows they are untrue.
Method in His Madness.
His chief object I'm making them is
not my injury. His madness is not with
out method. Having the intention to
make it appear that he is being perse-
cuted, he substitutes for the real issue
a presumption of his innocence. From
the beginning his policy has been to OBJ
scure the truth by directing attention
to the false, and let it be remembered
that he and his aides are responsible
for all that has been said, for not a
word has come from court officials
Appeals to Washington.
"As soon as it was suspected that an
inv ffcraf ION
were made to Washington that it would
initiate tgainst the Moyer-Haywood
trial. This could be only upon the be-
lief that some one connected with this
trial would be charged with another
crime. The government officials at
Washington did not and could not take
the untenable position that an investi-
cation of one crime should not proceed
lest another should not be punished.
Indictment of Borah.
Il do not know of my own knowledge
that Mr.. Borah was indicted and have
not said that he is Neither do l know
what testimony was actually presented
to the jury. As was my duty l left the
district attorney to marshal the tes-
timony and the jury to consider 1t I'M
Influenced by any views of mine. l have
carefully avoided expressing any opin-
the guilt of any one, and have none
now to offer. Briefly as II seemed pos
sible. but not in drastic language which
the provocation justifies, have noticed
these matters. fully realizing that in
doing so on the eve of my departure
for a long absence, 1 leave Borah the
advantage of so continuing his assaults
that I will not know of them"
The Senatorship.
Speaking of his attempts to secure
election as senator Judge Beatty says:
while Borah and have lived for six
teen years in the same town, he seems
just to have discovered my faults.
Within the past year he has repeatedly
said, once In public print, that if he
could not be elected to the senate he de-
sired that 1 should be. 1t might be in
ferred from his statement that 1 was an
active senatorial candidate. Hamper
ed as I was by my judicial position.
was not. At thesjoint request of four
prominent Republicans, including the
state chairman, 1 became a candidate,
but my campaigning was chiefly by
letters to individuals, suggesting my
candidacy and their support. No one
was importuned or urged, neither was
any one promised any office. reward or
other consideration. On the other hand
so generous is Borah reported to have
been with his promises that he secured
the cognomen OF William the Promis-
err l sought election only as the law
provides, through the legislature. He
having once failed thus. resorted to a
state convention, where, by combination
and division of spoiis with those he
had denounced as corrupt, he succeed
cd