The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-10-23
MIR. CARPENTER IN NEW ORLEANS.
WHO PAID FOR THAT SPEECH?
A DAMAGING DISCLOSURE,

| In view of all the circumstances, we in.
cline to regard the following as the most dam
aging disclosure that has been made, so fa1
as Senator Carpenter is concerned. It con
tradicts fatty his professions Of an earnest de-
sire for the overthrow of the Kellogg usurpa.
ton, and for new election, and places him
in the unpleasant, not to say infamous, att.
tude of appearing to press his bill, but hold.
ing it judiciously back, the better to protect
Kellogg, from whom he was receiving fire.
quent remittances
The payment by my "dear Kellogg" o.
that 500 for reporting Carpenters speech, is
more than suspicious; it is curiously convin.
cling, and were the desperately short" Sena.
tor possess ed of the peculiar powers Of palave,
for which Oily Cannon was distinguished, he
would find it impossible to explain away that
horrid fact.
To the Editor Of the Tribune:
SRI read in the Tribune of Saturday last:
cit is perhaps another unfortunate coinci-
dence; but the very day this speech lin New
Orleans) was delivered Gov. Kelloggs check
book records the payment of $500 to Mr..
Carpenter ION accounD and two days later ap-
pears the payment of $500 more"
There were more unfortunate coinci-
dences" about that same time. happened to
arrive in New Orleans day or two after that
famous speech was made, and know some of
the circumstances connected with its delivery.
When Mr.. Carpenter went to New Orleans he
was received with open arms by the Fusion
lists (McEnery party.) They feasted and feted
him and in many other ways manifested their
appreciation of the service he had done their
cause by the able report he had written. The
very meeting at which he made his speech
was arranged by the Democrats, and it was in
response to an invitation from them that he
appeared. So anxious were the leading DEM
ocrats that the Senator'S reception should be .
fattering one that they made it a personal
matter to see that the hall where he was to
speak should be packed with the most re-
spectacle and influential citizens, and the
Picayune INDUCED in what was for its man
sent corps of short hand reporters to the
meeting, intending to print the speech in full
the next morning.
When Mr.. Carpenter appeared he was re-
ceived with burst Of applause such as only
an excitable and enthusiastic New Orleans
audience can give. Before he closed, the
people began to look at each other with
establishment. 1t was not such speech as q
familiarity with his report and his converse
ton after his arrival in the city had led them
to expect, and the people went home de-
claring that they had been deceived and ''sold
out by the Senator The editor of the Plea
yune refused to publish his shorthand report,
because, as he told me himself, it was not cal
culated to convey truthful impression, and
would hurt rather than help the cause Of
justice.
MIR. Carpenter afterward requested the edi-
tor of the Picayune to furnish him with the re-
port of his speech, but there was some delay,
and the version of it that was, several days
later, printed in the New Orleans Republican,
was dictated by Mr.. Carpenter from memory.
Can it be possible that all the leading Flu
sionists in their conversations with Mr. Car
penter had misunderstood his position or
were his eyes opened. on the very day the
speech was made, by the five hundred dollars
be got from Kellogg? W.
Selma, Ala, Oct 6, 1874.
1.-THE cost of reporting Mr.. Carpenters
speech seems to have been betrayed by Gov. |
Kellogg instead of the Picayune. The cap
tured check book, of which we have now re-
ceived full transcript shows the payment of
800 to that paper on the I'd of June, 1873,
md memorandum mentions that it was ''for |
reporting Senator Carpenters speech. IN. |
Y Tribune