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Show PAT liNNAEXP'iED. lie Would Hueb. tip tho R. order's Shortage Short-age if Louis Hyams Would Withdraw With-draw Front the Time?, TEE TEIEUflE'S DUPLICITY, The Terms Which the Tribune Demanded for its Silence and Support are Told by Mr. Phillips. That vascular gentleman and Simon pure repre-ontalivo of en neiated journalism jour-nalism and the world's fair high commissioner, com-missioner, has again fallen into the pickiti of his own duplicity. St. Patric k I.annan un promoted from quartering b"eves on the block to slaughtering re-Oiitaiit re-Oiitaiit and unrepentant Mormons by the instrumentality of . the modern guillotine (when used for base purposes) pur-poses) the public prc.-s. is again iu the slump. The lord high executioner has beheaded be-headed himself with his would-be victim. vic-tim. The prudent, cunning, sleek, fat. tall talker; a very Prndhoinine in the flesh, the exemplification of "the fullness full-ness of emptiness," who, like another supposed great man, goes along the street inquiring w hether ihe Almighty made him or he made the Almighty, is fallen, and cannot again be resurrected to his proper pcdetal except by the heroic efforts of Prosecutrng Attorney Samuel A. Merrill. And now it doth appear that the Simon pure I.annan whose virtuous voice has been crying in the wilderness for examination, investigation anil exposure, ex-posure, made overtures to become an accomplice in the city 'roeordership shortage. That he was ripe and ready to hush up, cover up, bury out of sight, any crookedness that might have existed ex-isted in tho recorder's office, if his terms were, complied with. That he was willing to play hide-go-seek with public honesty if the recorder acceded to his demands. The story of his duplicity is told by Mr. M. C. Phillips, father-iu-law of ex-Hecorder ex-Hecorder Hyams. "It is rumored that Patrick Lannan offered to 'hush up' the investigation if you would accede to his terms," said a Times reporter to Mr. Phillips, on Main street this morning. Mr. Phillips said he was not yet ready to speak of the matter. "But this matter cannot be kept quiet and the public want to know the whole truth," insisted tho reporter. I am not quite ready to make the facts public, but as it must come out, I will tell you the truth, and I want you to print it as 1 Ray it, as I would not want to say a word that I could not verify. Mr. Phillips then said: "Tho next day after the Tribune came out with an editorial pressing an investigation, I called to see Mr. I.annan I.an-nan myself at the Tribune office, but he was not in. 1 found him at the new building, and after he showed mu through it I asked him: . " 'What in tho name of heaven is tho matter between you and Louis?' "He tried to explain tho article away by saying that it was meant for Louis' protection. 'There was,' ho said, 'considerable 'con-siderable buzzing around about the office of-fice not being run right, and he wanted to bring the thing around in favor of Louis.' He then told mo that Louis had not only taken an interest in Tiik Timks but was going about soliciting others to take stock in the paper. "I told him I knew nothing about what Louis had to do with Tiie'J imk.s." "He then said he found no fault with the office (recorder's) giving other papers some of the printing, but didn't think Louis did right by tho Tribune, as The Timks was hitting it (the Tribune) Tri-bune) some pretty bard licks." The next day he (Mr. Lannan) met me. He asked "What news?" I said "you are sacrificing Louis." He said something w hen I replied: "They are going to ask for his resignation." resigna-tion." Patrick Lannan then said: "I wori.p AllVIsK VlU! TO TF.I.I, I.OI1S TO WITH-DHAW WITH-DHAW KHOM Til 15 TlMK'S " "I then saw where the shoe pinched," said Mr. Phillips, and he turned on his heel and went away. Mr. Phillips was given to understand plainly as inferences could be made that if Louis Hyams sold his stock in Tiik Timks the Tribune would keep quiet. Nothing could bo plainer. The righteous orgr.n that with such a saintly air claims such great credit for demanding an investigation was ready to call off the dogs of war and become, by its silence, an accomplice to the defalcation if thore was any and if there was none to play the role of blackmailer by its insinuations that a defalcation existed. |
