American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-02-15


Fraud.
The evidence given Monday be- !
fore the Congressional Committee
on Elections, in The Louisiana case,
will compare favorabiy with any
JUDGE Luke Polanj! has unearthed
IN the Creli. Mrbi,ier corruption,
and the New Orleans Times tells US
the facts vet to come will add ma
teria,,y to the damaging force OF
the exposures. We print some OF
the testimony, knowing it Will IN
terest every reader:
Capt. jacques swcrn, and exam
;ned by Gov. Warmoutl.-Was
United States deputy Marshal; was
at the State House two or three
DAYS before the meeting of the Lee
gislatnre; the guard at the door
stopped him until the Marshal in
charge said he could go in; saw
several people stopped by the Mar
shall: understood that enly Fusion
lists were excluded; was United
States Supervisor in Plaquemlne
parish, appointed by Judge Darrell,
as a Republican,; was present dur
ling most OF the time when the regis
tration was made.
Mr.. Ray objected to the testi-
| mohy, on the ground that 1T Was
going into local questions.
| MI. Morton allowed the testi-
mouy to go on aud develOpe itself.
Witness issued about i've hund-
red duplicate registration papers
latter the registration closed; or the
day OF the election ISSUED about one
l-hu ndrcd aud fifty more; went to
New Orleans after the election, and
then returned to take af6davits;
read the affidavit; no one signed 1t
or authorized him to sign it; signed
the names of three hundred persons
| to the atiidavits.
To Mr.. Carpenter-Did not sign
them In the presence OF the parties.
They authorized him TO sign.
By Gov. Warmoth-Signed thir-
teen hundred aud -four teen affidavits
in all; took the names OF all but
three hundred from the poll list;
the commissioner signed the Aft
davits in blank.
To Mr.. Carpenter-Signed 1000
names to 1909 affidavits. Many OF
the men were men of straw; cant
tell how many names or existing
persons; he signed $50 names OF
existing parties without authority.
Did not know it was forgery.
To Mr.. Morton-Got the af!ida-
Wits from Gen. Sypher; signed them
in New Orleans; got the 300 names
by going from plantation TO pianta-
zion. Some said they could not vote
because there was such crowd at
the polls; others that the polls were
from ten to thirty five miles of, and
they couldn't go to them; United
States Marshal Prescott said to
them after tile reading of the afii-
davit, ssYou swear" On the 10th
of December received letter from
A. j. SS pher, telling him to fetch
down ali the affidavits You have
got; tsihe General is 400 Short"
gave the afiidavits to Mr. BOvee,
who said, "Jacques, you're hell Of
fellow witness answered that he
could get more by ten O'Clock in
the morning; told the General and
Captain Sypher about the way the
afiidavits were got. and they APP
proved Of it; General asked how
many names were on the book, and
witness answered 1000; Syphet toll
him to get $500 affidavit :; the day
| before Sypher went to Washington,
he told witness to get at least 1900
affidavits, and as many more as he
could; when Sypher. returned he
said he had done well; in 1868 10,
false names were put on the regis
tration lists Tor the purpose of
elecfing Sypher; it was common
talk in the Custom house after the
recent election, that it did BOT make
any difference how the election
went, enough aftidavits could be got
to elect the ticket.
70 Mr.. Carpenter-The af1idavits
were printed ten or fifteen days be-
fore the election; he exhibited a
copy OF the aflidavi,s signed by
Prescott in blank.
To Mr.. Trnmbull-Had sbont
COCO such affidwvits. They were
signed at witness house in New Or
leans.
To Mr.. Morton-Had no official
station at that time; received no
compensation for his work; bad sseeD
in the Cus.Onilious-. and Sypher
aud Casey promised to reinstate
him; got $3.50 to pay tor the boat
he used from Sypher; it was the
same boat used by the Republican
for party pu, poses.
To Gov. Warmo;h-Geu. Sypher
mas always been elected i'll Pia
quemines parish, and was never |
elected in amy other way.
To Mr.. Losan-Has not been re- |
instaied in the CustomLouse; has
not received any promise Hf reward
or compensation for declaring these
facts; thinks he would have dis
CLOSED them any way; han deter
miued to leave the whole crew, who
were nothing but set OF eussed
thieves; it had been the custom in
Louisiana to stuff ballot boxes and
make false registration; learned
OF the business in Cham
paign county, Illinois. Great
laughter at Mr.. Logan's expense
To Mr.. Mor:0n-Had no falling
out with MIR. Casey; calculated to