stand in the Massachusetts Supreme
Court. The very night before this case was to be called for trial, the
eminent young "trust buster" and people's champion called on my attorney
and made him a proposition. It was that I should meet Mr. Beck and agree
upon the details of certain testimony that Mr. Rogers and Kidder,
Peabody & Co. (the "System's" Boston representatives), and myself would
be called upon to give upon the witness-stand next day. My attorney
brought the proposition to me.

"Great heavens!" I said, "is it possible that this man has the audacity
to come to Boston and ask me to commit perjury?"

"He does not put it in just those words," my attorney answered.

"No, but he says he wishes to _match up_ testimony with me so that we
may all testify alike."

"That is it," my attorney answered.

"But," said I, "I have got to state the facts, and the facts are
diametrically opposed to the testimony Mr. Rogers and the others are to
give. This looks to me like subornation of perjury."

My lawyer would not have it that way, and I instructed him to secure
from Mr. Beck a writing as to just what he wished me to do, and that
writing I have at the present time. In it he states that if I do not
see him and agree upon the testimony to be submitted in the Supreme
Court of Massachusetts the following day, there may be developments
which will be decidedly uncomfortable for Mr. Rogers and perhaps for the
rest of us.

I did not meet Mr. Beck, and Henry H. Rogers and Kidder, Peabody & Co.
told one story and I another. Bald perjury was committed by some one.
However, I will give all the facts, including the "match up" letter,
when I come to them in my story.

Mr. Beck and Mr. Eckels are the two men designated by the "System" to
attend public gatherings and vilify Thomas W. Lawson. They are at it,
industriously.

THE DONOHOE EPISODE

As soon as the first chapter of "Frenzied Finance" appeared, Henry H.
Rogers turned loose on me one Denis Donohoe, a character thug whom he
had imported from California for just such emergencies. Donohoe's first
service for Mr. Rogers was a vicious onslaught on Heinze, of Montana, in
the New York _Commercial_. This was an attack of such unusual vulgarity
and malignity that it won Donohoe his spurs, for soon afterward, when by
a characteristic trick Mr. Rogers obtained possession of the New York
_Commercial_, he made Donohoe its editor. I may mention that Heinze sued
the _Commercial_ for $300