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Show truth IibUlt L he lias fallen into disgrace, made a terribly false step, and is called a defaulter, it may be the beginning of a new career for him, lie may yet live down his error and regain the confi dence of his fellows. When the news He has of disappearance and probable suinobody dure expose him. The cidehisreached the public, it appeared things at Encies of politics or other he had legions of friends, friends nSsent are such that it seems next to that P were who not to only genuinely sorry for immobility for the municipality were hut him, Truth's clutches. his willing and eager to from him. llis Knnseof Dooly will not cause him any help opponents in public de-whom he life mJntal He is absolutely fought with so much bitliked him in private life and of terness, aiyof the finer sensibilioies were his downfall. The inat grieved human nature. Figuratively speaking side of Robertsous life since history he has a hide like a rhinoceros, impenhe became paying teller in Wells-Farg- o etrable. Should he succeed in getting & Co.s bank in this city would make which muss in tbe nrescnt disgraceful shove will interesting reading, lie has brains he is straightened out he and sense, hut his employer, Dooly, auusual himself to the front with his turned his brains and sense in a wrong of hardened steel, dacity and cheek and to the advantage of Dooly. chaunel ft has been mixed up in many Wells-Farg& Co. Dooly The rumor is that questionable transactions both public their of branch and private. this banking close will aid the maj or persists is only meet keepio" him there, it Bhould be proper that the pnblio of man he Is. informed of the manner run municipal affaire for ten I So o institution. It is said it has not been a secret detectives in town than have reported to him. The duty of those who have not reported to but there are more Mr. Dooly is to shadow him, and they have been doing it for a week. REPRODUCED. In response to numerous requests and orders for papers Truth herewith republishes its article of last week on the Wells, Fargo Bank affair. Papers are being ordered by the thousand which is a pretty good indication of the approval the article has received from the public. It reads as follows: The sensation of the week has been the defalcations in the local banking house of Wells-Farg- o & Co. and the arrest of Assistant Cashier Duke and Paying Teller Robertson on the charges of forgery and embezzlement. The of the bank much has been not standing impaired because of the fact that it is only a branch establishment and that the local institution is backed by the parent hank in Sau Francisco and its other branches with a capital of $8,000,-00- 0 behind it. Otherwise there would have been a run on the bank as the people have lost confidence in the local management. The crookedness, it appears, has extended over a period of eight or nine years and people generally believe that the local either knew what was goingmanager on for years or that he was grossly incompetent and derelict in his duty, and in ordinary business precaution. Neither liorn of the dilemma is comfortable for Mr. Dooly. The action of Mr. Dooly since the affair became has not public increased confidence in him. The idea of his allowing the two defaulters to remain free andalleged at large for days after their alleged wrong doing became public and then not daring to ouge complaints against them, but leaving that to a stranger sent by the head office in San Francisco requires explanation. . ft The great misfortune in the life of hinder A. Robertson was his form-acquainta- knees and grovel before him. He is extremely resourceful and octopus like stretches out his tentacles in the most unexpected directions and grabs this one and that one who would be expected to be entirely beyond his ft ft He is merciless and unrelenting. Everybody remembers how he pursued y Engineer F. I'. Kelsey. He no meanness, and no subterat stopped ex-Cit- fuges and dually made life such a burden for the engineer that he had to resign. Kelseys only offense was that he was faithful to his duty and steadft fastly stood between Dooly aud He always had manipulations to be treasury, lint Dooly got to the treasdone, and lie forced such of his em- ury through his partners, the contractThe resignation of Kelsey cost ployes as he desired to do his work. ors. the Robertson's part of it was less objeccity thousands and thousands of a rs. doll tionable than that required of at least ft ft one other, lie was Dooly's representative in the city council aud in public Dooly, to for years has had almost affairs with which Dooly for mere lucre absolute control of the daily press. became connected. Many a fight had How lie works it, the common herd of he made against his better nature reporters, of which the writer was one both in and out of the council on be- never got to know, but they all knew half of his employer, and many a for- from experience that they could get lorn and worthless cause he carried to nothing in the papers which reflected victory. Iiad he beeu free to follow on Dooly. The articles had to be either the dictates of his conscience and what entirely eliminated or emasculated so he knew to be right he would have that they carried nothing against Dooly made an enviable reputation. How- however deserving of strictures he ever. the chickens came to the roost. might be, while the same papers took Those whom Dooly chose to further his great delight in roasting to a crisp poor schemes, naturally became acquainted devils who were angels compared with with the inside workings of Mr. Dooly's Dooly. It's a matter of common knowlplans. In other words, they got to edge that the Tribune espoused the know too much, and instead of being cause of City Engineer Kelsey at the his servants they became his masters. beginning of his fight with Dooly he was absolutely right, but the The life that some of his employes led would a scandal. became public fight hadn't gone very far before the They in other tolerated been not have paper basely deserted him, played any colorless in in or the bank neutrality for a while and any respectable city, landed on Dooly's side. Presian for institulionof any kind, hour, finally of the dent much so that knew eity council Buckle had a hut they Dooly similar them. daren't discharge experience to Kelsey. About a year ago when lie was acting mayor ft ft he suspended Dooly as chairman of the When Robertson failed to be at liis board of public works for crookedness post in the bank Saturday morning, the in interested with contractors conclusion was quickly reached that whobeing were doing work for the city. The there was something seriously wroDg. was done with the knowlIt didnt take Dooly long to reach that suspension and approval of the then owner of conclusion, if he didn't know it long edge the Tribune, who knew that Buckle The circumstances strongly was before. right, but it wasn't many days beof to the suicide the missing pointed deserted Buckle and fore the teller and it would have been a great went over paper to Doolys side. Then came relief to some people, if Robertson the whitewash of Dooly bjr the city had carried out his evident intention to council. He was cited to appear before end his life. lie. the least guilty of the council to show why he should not the bunch, would have been made the he permanently removed from the scape goat for the rest. All the blame chairmanship of the board of public would have been laid at his door and works. He made a pitiable spectacle the bank would have had to put up and convicted himself out of his own with the loss,. probably $100,000. When mouth, but the members of the council, Dooly thought the missing teller was with one or two exceptions, slave like, dead he became very anxious to find voted on Dooly'sside, whitewashed him him. lie offered a reward for his cap- to the queen's taste, and actiug Mayor ture and convicton and 10 per cent, Buckle was left practically standing of the amount of such of the missing alone. Councilman Robertson worked money as might be recovered. When that piece of business for Dooly. Robertson, however, turned up alive ft ft anil well, Dooly didn't want him half Dooly controls the (laity papers now as badly as he thought he did lie more thoroughly than lie did then. even and of reward pulled down his offer of the present Tribune's The him. accusation didn't'raake any against emasculated were a sensation he dare things poor lodge lie dare not. Neither out. Herald The meat eut the all with man the other complaint against Duke, showed some indeto whom suspicion has been strongly for a day or twowas soon squelched, bependence, but it pointed and who refused to talk ft him told had ft his cause he said lawyer not to. Dooly himself may make good It may be that the misfortune of this the shortage, because lie has to, because young man Robertson will have a c'mch pn him, but wholesome effect they have the dead upon this person to him part with the coin! Dooly. Ierhaps iu the future Mr. it will hurt This escapade ought to end Dooly's Dooly will attend more to his own and It ought less to other people's affairs. Because banking career in this town. and if it in career, end his public also to days gone by Dooly has achieved an a will heave great sigh unenviable reputation for waddling does the people of relief. It may even open Mayor into everything lie could find an enThompson's eyes, or stiffen his back trance to. Was there a franchise to be bone, which has beeu lamentably weak granted? Mr. Dooly was there with where Dooly was concerned, advice. Was there a contract pending? ft ft Mr. Dooly was on hand with recomHe has been uniformly The grip that this man Dooly has mendations. successful too, for in Lake strange as it may seem. Salt held on public affairs Lhe-cit- paving concern for years, and the present crisis has, it is said, determined them to discontinue it. W ith the kind of a head to the bank they have had here it is not surprising that the business was not a success. ft 4 Mr. Dooly is probably not aware of it, FORMER ARTICLE 3 years is astounding. He's in everything where there is a chance of making a dollar or a rake off. His gall is supreme and yet he is nothing but a vulgar bluffer, He is the most thoroughly despised character in the city, yet it is a matter of wonderment how the very men who cuss him to a finish behind his back get down on their reach. nce of and the employment of John E.entering Dooly. obertson Is a good fellow, a true and generous friend, and lie remained a good e low until more or less contaminated oy the baneful influence of Dooly. Not-- , his association for years pding with of the widow and despoiler e orphan (see state court records), nn? mn Vho has Preyed on the public . ,uine every body upon whom he itches, Robertson still 18 rgnal nobility of cliarac-an- d his finer instincts, and although ; ,! i bc-ca- us re-port- s He has had his arm into the public crib a good part of the time since 1890, when the Gentiles first obtained control of the city and county. Looking backward over the years which have passed, one no longer wonders why the Mormon people fought so bitterly to keep in power. He lias escaped criticism nearly all this time because he was able, through some occult influence, to hypnotize the owners of the press, especially the morning papers. Not a reporter who ever worked on the Trik bune in the palmy old days, when Henry Laiiuan was its autocrat, hut knows that to write anything displeasing to Dooly meant a dance on the carpet and possibly a dismissal. Not a reporter who ever toiled on the Herald but knows that Dooly had old man Chambers under his thumb, and it is no slander to repeat it of the good old -- i l! . I ' i perhaps he was not to blame. Occasionally he failed of dictating to the Herald on account of the stuhborness of members of its staff, but the columns of Mr. Lannans Tribune were always v I ' Rat-ric- fellow who is now under the sod, for :i i .. i M , : I : :: i i i thoroughly Doolyized, and from the appearance of things it looks as if some of the old disease existed yet. None of the papers here are giving the lerhaps in some instances they cannot get it, while in others they would not print it if they had it. lie has always butted into everything of a public nature. He wants to run everything and everybody from the city government to the postoffice. news. ft ft Why a firm with the national repu& Co. tation enjoyed by Wells-Farg- o should have retained him all these years is a question. Surely they must see now the results of such action. With a reputation second to none in the country, the house of Wells-Far& Cou ought to be doing the bankiug business of the state. But it is not, aud why not? This incident cannot fall to shake public confidence in the bank. For the officials of Wells-Far& Co. will doubtless make some sweeping changes here. But that alone will not satisfy the people. What they are demanding is the history of this transaction and of others. What is the condition of affaire? It will not do to say it is not a matter of public business, for it is. The bank is a public institution. The people go there and deposit their funds, or at least they did go and manymay want to trust to the future. But if these kind of transactions are to be kept back from the public gaze: are to be hidden, covered up or smothered over, & Co. has u the fact that Wells-Farg- o will do no or of more capital $8,000,000 so confidence as is far good restoring & Co. owe it concerned. Wells-Farg- o to themselves to disclose everything iu connection with this affair. go self-protecti- oc go ft ft shortage could occur in Mr. Doolys bank is a mystery. Because Mr. Dooly, according to his own statements, lias the most complete system of checking accounts in use anywhere. Nothing, absolutely nothing, can go through his bank without being Seven times checked seven times. mind. True, Mr. Doolys clerks sometimes complained that the system compelled them to work more hours than clerks iu other hanks, but what of that so long as the depositors money was well taken care of? Why should the feelings of a clerk be considered when, under Mr. Doolys excellent system, his work was necessary to perfect the checking of every body s accounts seven times? It is due to Robertson to say that public sympathy is with him; that a great majority of the people are sorry for him But no one manifests any regret for Mr. Dooly. Tbuth would remiud those whom it may concern of a saying of President Roosevelt, The man that will steal for you will steal from you if he gets a chance. Dr. T. G. Odell has moved his office o the Deseret News building. 2t TIow any For accident insurance see Warret Foster, 300 Progress building. it ?. V. r |