Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-05-13

TELLS INQUIsIToRs OF ARRANGE
MENTS WITH EDMONDS
AND STONE.
CONFRONTED WITH LETTERS
WRITTEN DURING CAMPAIGN
PROCESSES IGNORANCE.
Madison. Nav II.


man of Genessee was the only witness
on the stand during yesterday after
Moons session of the senatorial inves-
tigating committee and for two hours
he was again subjected to a stringent
cross-eamxination regarding mis- ar
rangements with Stone and Edmonds
before he took an active part in the
campaign in the interest Of Senator
Stephenson. He was confronted by
two original letters written to Stone
in an effort on the part Of the SEN
atCrs to contradict his statement, that
he did not expect any money or had
any idea that he was to receive a sum
from the Stephenson fund before he
gust -. Under close questioning by
the senators, the witness chung to his
story that he had no arrangements
with Stone or EdmOnds to take part
in the campaign or to receive any
money to use in the interest of Sen
ator Stephenson. The witness left the
stand with the understanding that he
would be recalled before the commit
tee finally concluded it's labors, pro
badly at the end of this week.
Bowman Testifies.
Deputy Game Warden H. A. Bow
man was called to the stand at the
opening Of yesterday afternoons SEES
sion Of the Investigating committee
He was questioned about a cOnversa-
ton with Diamonds in Milwaukee and
said as he had testified before, that
he did not expect any money and had
no idea that he was to receive a sum
from the Stephenson fund, before Mr..
Stone gave him the first $500 He
aeain cOntradicted Stones testimony
and declared that he was not the first
to suggest the acceptance of money
from Edmonds.
Senator Marsh introduced in EVIL
dence a letter written to Stone by
Bowman He read parts of this
epistle and questioned Bowman in an
effort to prove that Bowman knew he
was to receive money from the Steph-
ensOn fund before he received the
$3.50 from Stone on August u. 1t
appeared from the letter that the wit
ness had a telephone conversation
with Edmonds in which the latter told
him that everything was O. X Bow
man said something to Stone about
the great responsibility that he was
assuming in selecting The game ward
ems to work for Stephenson that
this was no game to fool about" and
that he wanted to get clear on the
matter"
You mean to say that you don't
remember writing this letter or re
ceiving an answer to it?'
Eyes"
You further mean to say that you
didn't know you were to receive
money from Edmonds or Stone, after
you had this telephone message from
Edmonds and had a conference with
him a few days after, and after you
had assumed the responsibility of Sc
lecting the game wardens to work for
Stephenson"
Il had no conversation with any
body about receiving money before I
got the first $500 on the twelfth OF
August"
that no costs are allowed for printing.
A second letter from Bowman to
Stone, written during the campaign,
was taken into evidence by Senator
Marsh.
''Wha- do you mean by saying here:
I have it fixed so that Jim Thomas
gets some help'?" was asked
Il have absolutely no recoIIect on
what I meant by that" Bowman re-
piled.
Senator Husting read the two let
tiers into the record. The first was
writ en- on August ), before Bowman
received the money from Stone, and
the second on September ).
You had $3.50 on hand at the time
you wrote this second letter and this
money was collected from or con-
tributed by the game wardens for the
governors campaign fund. 1t APP
pears from the letter that you had
some dispute with Stone. Now isn't
it a fact that this dispute was over
the $3.50 which was to go into the
governors campaign fund.- Senator
Husting asked.
The witness denied that the dis
pute with Stone was about the money
collected from the game wardens.
Bowman could not remember any
thing about the purpose or the mean
ing of this letter. He said that he
didn't give Jim Thomas any help
and that he didn't know whether he
got some or not.
Senator Husting again asked
whether it wasn't a matter of fact
that the second letter to Stone wasn't
in regard to the money for the gov
errors campaign fund.
Isn't it true that you put the pro-
position up to Stone that the govern
or had enough after he had received
the first $500 from Stone and that
you should divide the remaining $3.50
that you still had in your possession
from the game wardens and keep
this money!" Husting asked.
81 didn't do anything Of the kind"
Bowman replied. 81 had no dispute