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Show t X TERKI11LE EXPOSURE. Tue following appears in tho Gait Lake Tfrrtes cr Thursday btenlng. It ljtoUgh Iritis true: e That- srasjolar. gentleman and Simon pure n presontatl ve qfcreti dated Journalism and the World's Fair high Icommikstoner has again fallen Into the pickle of his oarn duplicity. St. Patrick Lauaan Tra promoted from quartering beeves on tbe block to slaughtering repentant repent-ant a::d unrepentint Mormons by ibe iutrumetitality of tho modern guillotine (when ud for base purposes), pur-poses), the public pre?, Is again in the slumps , - The lord bish ejtecutlofier, 1)U ! behcadell IIItHseirviiUi IiIswouIoMh, victim. The prudent, cunning, sleek, fat, tall talker; a very Prud homme tu the flesh, tbe .exemplification .exemplifi-cation of "tbe fulness of emptiness,'- who, lito another supposed great man, goes along the street inquiring in-quiring whether the Almighty made him or be maue the Almighty, is fallen, and cannot ajain be resurrected to his proper pedestal except by tho heroic efforts of Prosecuting Attorney Samuel A. Merrltt, And bow it doth ajpeartbat the Simn pure Launau whose virtuous voice has tieeu crying In the wilderness wilder-ness for examination, investigation aud exposure, made overtures to become au accomplice iu the city rccordcrshlp shortage. Tnat ho was ripe and ready to hu-li up, covtr up, bury out of sight, any crookedness crooked-ness that mlht have existed In the n-cnr.Ier's t fllce, if Ills terms wert-romplted wert-romplted with. That he was willing to pliy hide-go -ek with ilillc honesty If the recorder acceded to hisileiuanda. Tbe story ufliU dupl'city is told by Mr. M. C. Phllllie, father-in-law of ex-Iteconler Hyams. "It I rumored that Patrick Lan-iianoDrrrtl Lan-iianoDrrrtl to 'hu'-li up the luve-tl-cation If yi u would accede to hi term," said a Timet rcorter to Mr. Phi!ll, oh Mai u street this morn- Mr. Phillips said ho was not yet re. ly to sprak of the matter. "Butthlsm titer cannot be kept quiet and tile public want to know the wbolo truth." instiled the reporter. I am not qulto ready to make the facts public; butasitmustcomeout, I will fell you the truth, and I want you to print it as I say it, as I would not want tosaya word that I could not verify. Mr. Phillips then said: " The next day after the Vniune cams out with an editorial prvslin; au Investlgitlon, I calll to see Mr. Lannan mytelf at the Triiuiie office, but he was not In. I found him at tho new building, and, after he showed me through it I nske-J hiir: "'XX'hat Iu the name of heaven is the matter between you and Iyjuis?' "He tried to expliin the article away by saying that it was meant for ijouis protection. 'There was,' hu said, considerable buzzing arund about thcofllce not living run r'ght. and ho wanted to bring tlm tiling around in favor of Louis.' Ho then told mc that louis had not only taken au iuterest in the Timet, Uit was got ng aliout soliciting others to tsku stuck in the paper. 'I told him I knew nothing about what Louis had to do with the 7imm "He then said he found no fault with the otllce (H-corder's) giving other papers some of the printing. Uit didn't think Liuls did right by the Tniu'i as the 7imes washltllug it (the TrJtunc) some pretty hard licks. Tno next day he (Mr. Lannan) met me. He asked "XX'hat news?" I said "Vou are sacrificing Louis." Ho said something, when I re-pl'ir': re-pl'ir': "They are going to ajk for bis resignation." Patrh k Lannan then said: "I would advise joi to tell Louis to w tthdraw from the Times " "l then saw where the shon plnciied,"sald Mr. Pliiiliji, and in-turned in-turned 011 bis heel and went nu ay." Mr. Phillips was given to under-s'aud under-s'aud plainly as iufervuees could be miilotlist if Louis Hyams raid hi-stock hi-stock in the 7imu tile Tribune would kerpqulet. Nottilugc iuld be plainer. plain-er. TntTighteojsorgin that with such a saintly air claims such great credit for demanding an investigation investiga-tion was ready to call ofT the dogs of warand lrecom-, by its silence, an acconipllcH to the defalcation if there wasany and if there was none to play theroluofblickmailer by it insinuations that a defalcation existed. |