The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-10-12
No. 1,l19 Chestnut street.
Hon. Geo. ShGrslpood, Supreme Court.

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JAMES a. WATSON, THE PROFESSIONAL
VOUCHER, sCoNREssRS, UNDER OATH,
THAT HE IS a WHOLESALE PRRJURER.
The following AFFIDAVIT was made be.
fore Alderman Robert Thomas this
morning bySJas. A. Watson. The noted
professional naturalization voucher. II
speaks for itself -sr
James A. Watson, a resident of Ger
mantown, in the Twenty; second ward
ofthe city of lphia, being duly
sworn, doth depose and say that he did
go TO the city of Philadelphia, along
with number of PERSONS to be Datu-
rallied this fall among WhomSwas J ohm
Herman, an 1rlshmau by birth; that he
swore he knew said Herman for, five
years, and SO of several other persons;
that he does not know when Herman
came to this country; that he has not
known said Herman over two years;
that he also vouched for sundry per-
sons from Montgomery county, none of
whom he knows; that he was told to go
rls X. Pierce; that they told me (Wat-
SOM that would come out all right; he
(Coggshalll told me that the Democratic
party would see me all right; I knew I
was doing wrong, but did not think 1
could be caught; L vouched for seven or
eight from Montgomery county, they
gave one dollar apiece for vouc ching for
them; I was in Trimball's Hotel, at the
railroad depot, Germantown, when a
party of men from Montgomery county
came in; did not know any of them;
O. Mason Hooker asked me to youch
for them; said I would; Mr.. Pierce
handed me i've dollars for vouching for
them. -
Sworn 10 and subscribed before me
this 7th day of October, 1858.
(Sigued) JAMES WATSON.
ROBERT THOMAS, Alderman.
Philadelphia correspondence or4the Tribune
As briefly as possible will give your
sc, 900 subscribers in Pennsylvania an
unexaggerated account-o of the maods
by which the Republican party Is to be
beaten in this city October IL. A moro
monstrous system of swindling has
never been invented, even IL we 60
back to 1865, when Buchanan obtained
the electoral vote Of PennsylvaHia by
forged papers. The revelations made
this week have astonished the city. We
were nsed-to being cheated, and, like
the cells in the story who had been FIRE
quently skinned alive, had learned 10
bear 1t without much complaint, but
of cheating SO daring, stupendous, and
overwhelming, we had no suspicion,
To,the animal invasion OF our polls by
the "repeaters" of New York, and the
roughs of Baltimore, colonization on 9
grand scale, the voting by minora, and
the voting early and voting often Of
Democratic citizens in different wards
we were accustomed, and sufferance
has grown to be the badge of all oul
tribe. But even our Quaker patienct
gives; ont when we find that In less
| than month the Democratic party has
manufactured Overt 000ILLEeAhYorEs
| and intends by such means to make
the coming election an infamous
burlesqle OF the whole theory OF popu
lar governmentsggs llS ahsFl
About two weeks ngo reporter for g
daily paper applied TO the ProthUnotarJ
j of the Supreme Court1to. copy and prin
the public records of the1natuFalizeC
citizens created inthat courtlslnc Sep
TENDER i. Even in your city such a re-
quest no officer would dare to refuse
Here, Mr., ], Ross Showden, Prothono
tary4dtd fefuae.. The public records
were moi, for the public Inthe solemn
and responsible office OF making alien
citizens, the clerks and atipstaves of tn
| Court were not to be open to scrutiny
they were to discharge their duties IL
secrecy, like that of the Star Chamber
Thereporter appealed to the Courtitseli
Judges, sat upon the bench, and tn
/ Court hesitateds Unwilling to comply
1t scarcely dared to refuse. After ma
ture delIbefation 1t was decided that tn
records might be; copied in the presenci
of some subordinate Of the Prothono
tary, and with this reluctant permission
three reporters went to the work a
| once. Three were not sufficient; I
| dozen were needed. For it was 500
discovered that the seal OF the Suprem
Court and the signature Of the Pre-
: Lhonotary had been appended 70 ceI
ffticates of naturalization at The rate Q
! Se5aUeH htIRdFedd day. That the record
of the Court were imperfect, tnasmuc
as merely the name of the pefso
! naturalized was registered, without res
, idence or voucher. Thousands of Cit
zens had been created by the Court, on
of aliens whom the Court did not knol
and had neHer examined, and who's
identity, II was, utterly without tn
means 10 ascertain. The Prothonotar
! had signed his name to papers he ha
never read; clerks who were stranger
Z to him ahixed the seal of the Court I
certificates+which certified tor nothin
but lies. s-.-rsF .7-se--t
For willis, at inconvenIent hours an
Z 1nder wearfsome restraint, the report
ers with their ravenons quilts wer
! copying, copying, copying long Lists G
barren names like those In some dea
directory. q drunken foreigner Let OF
between q hiccough and q hurrah fc
{ Seymour, information that let to ur
J suspected revelations, The inmates {
n Democratic boarding house on Ma
ket ct. we're arrested, and on examine
: ton It appeared that they were kept
5 vote the Democratic ticket; that nor
( OF them had beer. In the country fiI
Q years; that they had been natuFaIize
; In the Supreme Court upon the oath
: men whom they did not know; aud tn
) one of them had been in the rebel arm
i from 1862 70 1855. HereWa an indie
. tion worth nothing. But aroth
g drunken 81 foreigner unintentionan
q came forward with proof "A day
d two afleT this, a German named Ub
4 was arrested for drunkenness and
l. his pockets were found two naturaliz