Show HAMERA explanation with the replies of jeorge and wm driver A ew days ago you published au article in your paper with reference to william diliver and myself in which you undoubtedly unintentionally did me serious injustice you did speak to me on election day in reference te the matter but I 1 bad not the slightest idea that I 1 was being interviewed and it may be that I 1 dij not state the facts with sufficient detail to enable you to understand the matter the facto in brief as ellowe lu he early part of november 1691 george W driver came to my he was very much agitated end said that a draft tor bad been by the bank that the firm of william driver soa with instructions to attach the property of the firm unless t lie draft was paid that day and he wanted me to loan driver son witia which to pay the draft he said the money was coining by express to the firm from terrace but that it would not arrive in time to prevent tho attachment I 1 told him that I 1 did not have the m ney be said you are receiving rooney baie all the time for taxes I 1 told him that tho taxes constituted a trust fund which I 1 could act use fprmer eopal purposes and to be brief it was finally between us to this effect the drivere bad paid their taxes and it was agreed that I 1 should refund back to them bf their taxes and I 1 was t wait for them as lone as I 1 osuld to gain pay buch talef and george driver agreed to return me the re receipts which I 1 had given when the taxes we e pud in case the money did not for any reason arrive from terrace and in case the was not repaid to me it was also that I 1 should beell the property for the taxes the as any other upon which the taxes were not paid well the remittance did not arrive from terrace and the was not repaid I 1 held the matter over until the following march or april five or six months and then as is generally known george driver left for california it was reported and his father made an asien ment ot the business for the baneat of his creditors in which assignment I 1 wag pot mentioned aa a creditor this however wae probably for the acason that the assignment waa made while gaorge was away from home and bis father knew about the matter between him and myself at that time as I 1 a towards was informed but when I 1 did explain the matter to william driver he repudiated he claim and would nit and lias not so at my own expense I 1 took up the tax aate certificates which had been filed against the property of the drivers Dri veis because of course they had the and I 1 could not contradict my own receipts george having falten to return the receipts as agreed above ie biece to william driver and it ie true I 1 have not stated it on the street on mere than one occasion and that was on election day and it was for this reason on elect on day I 1 went into ailiin Wi liin D ivera drug store to eee gearge driver knowing that be was in town as geche had repeatedly promised to pay t e william driver came back loto bis office with george and me and said that if I 1 repelled the statement he would have me arrested I 1 told him that I 1 would do so and thereupon I 1 did repeat it on the corner of the utah loan trust building and anen I 1 went to work and stayed in mv all day that is the only lime I 1 made the statement on the street and 4 that is there asiu I 1 did eo the statement being true I 1 did not propose to be blufard into saying it was not true I 1 did not publish be bs you said I 1 crould have i don because I 1 did not thick it was pro per ti publish fauch things and I 1 would not old it on the etrest at all it mr driver had not me to do i so up to that time I 1 bud only of it to a very few of my most intimate frende and in anost of anch case it was when they anaed me to vote mr driver and I 1 thereupon gave them that s for refu eine to vote tor him I 1 any corroboration of this statement p is necessary mr joseph langsdorf Lanns dorf who was my deputy bt the time was present and remembers the agreement made by tf george driver and myself and day george driver called at my office and admitted that THE article was incorrect and admitted in the ence of mn A G harris that the money was received for william driver son ae to whether george alie money to the purpose for which he got it I 1 dont know I 1 did not go down to t the bank with him and him take up the draft but I 1 do know the money receive by him as be for driver sun it that you will now do me the simple justice to retract your statement it beeme to have been nade upon only a barial understanding of the matter yours truly DASIEL HAMER THE finds it necessary lo 10 aeb the statement made to TUB STANDARD on ath and in order that the public can form an un 14 on this matter TUB now withdraws end ami its conclusions and criticism on daniel if ere are the remarks THE eald mr hamer made ana called mr hamer nd according to camere etry as told by be wronged mr dver very much thia is substantially thu stoy in november 1891 geo W driver borrowed from pan hamer and gave him a note or I 1 0 U signed by geo W driver not wm driver or devur co or driver son but plain G W dreier hamer was tax collector of weber county mra wm driver paid the taxes her home to hamer nd dan hainer took the from mrs and applied it on george W drivers account and fold me drivers home for when this matter became known to mrs driver ehe demanded from the county court that the tax sale be isted from her property as she could prove beyond doubt that she had paid the taxes in fact abc held a receipt proving it and dan jimmer wae forced to buy up the eale on mrs arivera Dr ivera borne and cancel it now while hamer admitted au the foregoing to editor this is the way be told it to the i voters 1 I took of abo money and loaned it to wm driver when be sheriff was about to antich bis property and close up hia business busi nees I 1 bad to pay the to the county and mr driver reduced to pay even the interest in fact abe whole claim ani driver ie a dishonest man because hu cheated me out ot it is only fair to state that mr harner claims that geo driver save the u to wm driver son U 1 it will be been that there rial difference between STANDARDS and mr hamers statement 1 WHAT GEO W saya mr geo driver being seen hamer ie in error when heskje that abe money was borrowed for driver son I 1 borrowed the without saying who it was for and gave my receipt lor be money and signed my own name to i and not tie name of viiu driver sn in tact abe money was pit to a basi nees man in who did no threaten to bring suit as eluted by mr hamer As for the makes on the tax receipt that is all wrong we talked about the tax receipt of my home but was said about mrs wm drivers property as I 1 had qa right to ao 10 anol liei property for my debt abe proof of this is shown by the fact thai when daniel hamer could not induce maj driver to pay my debt he redeemed ber borne abe tax sale mr hamers statement that I 1 admitted in the of A G hams that I 1 got the for wm driver A son is not correct I 1 never made euch an admission no one better than daniel hamer that I 1 never represented that 1 borrowed zd the money for wm driver son tha proof ia made plain by the face that when the had charge of driver sons store he advertised calling for all the firm to he filed by a certain date but hamer never presented bis claims to the assignee does anybody suppose that it mr hamer considered my note or I 1 0 U for a claim against abe firm of wm driver son that he would not have presented his claim against abe firm when that firm had assigned the election is over the injury has been done to wm driver by aanie hamer and it is cot worth while to die cuse this matter in the papers the whole trouble is this daniel hamer ran a bluff in delliott se lliott mrs wm daiv ers home he taller in that and then becoming angered licause ii cause wm driver would inot let lipon his aier I 1 believe he sought to anfu re mr driver by telling abe story be dal I 1 now stale that Willia driver had naf now ledue of my transaction awitin aniel hamer and that beis be is innocent of barges made against h irn bv daniel lamer 1 admit ib a t jiose taft nd intend to pay every cent of it william driver beina informed what mr hairier would say in the morning eaid 1 I have no newspaper controversy to make I 1 do not care to rush into print but you can say since mr hamer wants Us statement published that when I 1 und that mr iiames was telling his story and you may say that he did not tell it on abe treet as cleverly as he dos in bis communication I 1 WAS very much I 1 have absolutely no knowledge of abe transaction of george and mr hamer excepting what has been told me ance I 1 as nominated and mr hamer informing inform ipg ine george owed anu i M hamer on claim he bad aca ahe arm id the if he bad other claims he firm why did he fail lo 10 them to the assignee that fact alone is to my clear evidence aes mr hamer A close of mr camere communication muni cation will chow that I 1 am entirely innocent in the entire affair even according to hia own but mr hamer did not tell his story on the street as in his communication if be bad explained abe matter as fully as he now does my friends would not have found it necessary to warn me ol 01 the injury he was doing me |