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Show WHITTEMORE ANSWERS. A Statement in Regard to Mr. Sick- ! son's Signature for Simpson's ' Pardon. The. article . which appeared in this morning's Tribune headed "The Simpson Simp-son Pardon," created some little agitation among those at all interested, Mr. C. O. Whittemore being accused of securing Messrs. Dickson and Varian's signatures to the petition for pardon through misrepresentation. mis-representation. This afternoon a Democrat Demo-crat reporter called "on the accused to leam his statement of the affair. "Mr. Whittemore, what have you to say pertaining to the charges made against you in this morning's Tribune f" "The article is entirely false. In the first place, I did not procure Varian's signature, to the petition. Simpson obtained ob-tained that himself. Dickson promised to sigu the petition when I should get one up, and when I: presented it to him he desired to have the petition left with him a few- days to further investigate the matter. I. left it with him for two weeks, when he went to San Francisco. I then went to Varian and obtained ob-tained Dickson's address, when Varian told me that Simpson had written to him to sign it. He said he would consider the matter, and the next I knew of it I found the petition one day lyin on my desk signed by Mr. Varian, who joined m the recommendation of JudgeZane.Mr. Varian stated that Mr. Dinksnn wno oK.' sent from the Territory, but that the prosecuting pro-secuting attorney had informed him that he concurred in -the recommendation for Simpson's pardon." "Did Mr. Dickson fully understand the purpose of the signature?" "He could not have helped but understand under-stand the matter, for he saw his name in the Tribune as a signer of the petition the day it was sent to the President. If it was not with his consent, why did he remain silent until the matter had been acted upon by the President? "What further action, if any, do you intend taking in the matter?" "I shall send to Washington for the petition that was signed by Mr. Varian in order to shjw that he did give his signature sig-nature to the document upon the information in-formation from Mr. Dickson that he concurred con-curred in the matter." The young attorney seemed considerably consider-ably exercised over the difficulty involved m but said he would show himself exactly ex-actly right in all he had said or done. : |