Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1877-02-08


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Testimony Of q Self Convicted
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A Full Exposure Of LiltleAeld'l
Little Game Of Biaekmntl.
Washington special to Cincinnati Gazette. .
h3i1 sailr--.asq JANUARY 80. 3
The Democrats claim that the effecs
of Littlefeid's testimony 10 to prove,
first, that the paper produced Is the
original official return from Vernon
Parish; second, that l7So votes wert
transferred from the Democratic TO the
Republican Electors in that parish, af
ter the return was opened in the pres
ence of the Sherman and Palmer
Committees; third, that this change
was made before the final compflia.
tiOn Of the reurns, and this is shown
by the fact that the tables made up
by the Returning Board, showing the
result of the election, Corresponds with
the return Or that parish as il now 3.
pears, and not with.that opeued IN tie
Returning. Board In the presence oi
the visiting committees. Litflefield,
In any event, proves himself TO be 4
great rascal and = criminal. 1t should
not be forgotten that he swOre abso-
lutely shat he did not know chat any
changes, were made except in4s Varhon
Parish, and that could not alter the
aggregste Hayes vote. Iittlefield's
action yesterday, 10 placing himself in
contempt, appears clearly TO have been
trick The Democratlc managers.
before he was placed upon dthe. stand.
were assured THAI he Iweuld. tell the
story of his own iiufainy. which, he
avowed to-day. His contempt pro.
caediugsl was evidently ~ dramatic
trick 10 intensity the effect of the Til
den conspiracy to weaken the Louisj.
ana returns. Gov. Wells, Anderson,
and sll the clerks of tho Beard, swear
that LitiIeneld's story is perjured
fslsehood. Their character as me u and
witnesses Is better than that OF self
convicted f0rger. - H5s1 q it..5gf-
y A'sas p JANUARY 81.
A person familiar with the "details Of
the Louisiana Case says the sensational
story of Littlefield relating tp forgery
OF the returns of Vernon parish can be
successfully refuted by the following
statement: -~t --' sf-,s. iei-Nr
The LittlefieId conspiracy is one to
make money out OF the Republicans, n
possible, failing in that, out Of the
Democrats. 3 1'e4 ,'e 5ti- d. q
This forged return was offered to
Morrison, Chairman of the Louisiana
COmmittee at New Orleans, and de-
a l.xv .ls - Ii
obtained. Morrison stated this in the
Committee room, adding, that ne did
not wish 10 have anything to do with
things obtained in that. way. Under
the law of Louisiana a duplicate Of the
return is on file in the
parish records and shows Democratic
vote Of 6i7 against two Republican
votes. II is notorious all over the
State OF Louisiana that Vernon Par
ish never does cast any Republican
votes of consequence and never did.
The Returning Board furnished the
Senate and House Investigating Com
mittee5 with y tabulated statement of
actual returns received by them from
Parish Supervisors as to the Electoral
vote by Parishes. On that return
Vernon is accurately put down, two
votes Republican and 647 Democratic,
so that the idea that Gov. Wells
would dictate a forgery of that kind 10
in the highest degree improbable,
when he knew that he would be con-
tradieted by his own records and by
records ofthe p ri>h Supervisors. That
fact proves that the Returning Board
did exclude three polls, smouuting to
l79 votes, on the gr0und of intimida.,
tion, uT on affidavits taken befOrc jew
ett,. United. States Commits. .oner, in
New Orleans, on November 15, 1876.
The story, therefore, of Littlefield that
after December 10, 1876, Wells directed
him to pick out and exclude those polls
for which he would have testimony
prepared, is necessarily untrue. The
statement made by Littlefeld, that
one reason for the forgery Of 17S votes,
was that the Board might elect q Re-
publican State Senator, KelsO, Is pro-
we'd to be untrue because Kelso was
not returned elected by the Board,
while his Democratic Competitor was.
The story that 10 was necessary TO add
17S votes to the Republican side and
deduct an equal amount from the
Democratic side, which constituted the
for the purpose of electing1
Circuit Judge, is proved to be untrue,
because the confessed action of the
Board, in excluding l78 Democratic
votes, elected this Judge without the
necessity of the useless forgery Of add.
ing us to the Republican vote. That
the return Is forgery there IL no
doubt. That the forgery has been
Il hsvT z, n AL
but inasnuch as he confesses himsei!
to have first forged and then stolen the
paper, and since ii has been haWked
around among the Dem0cratic Politi-
clans for the last four weeks, Pretty
good evidence can be found to show
who the parties are that are responsible
for forgery which was not necessary
TO Republican success, and which will
be denied by every person incrimina-
ted by the testimony. t sa 's"2
The Tangled Affairs Of the New
Jersey Mutual Life Company.
TRENTON, N. j., Jan. 30.-The report
of Fackler, the expert appointed by
of State Kelsey to examine
into the affairs of the New Jersey Mu-
tual Life Insurance company, COM
mences with the statement that the an.
nual report of 1875 was grossly incor.
rect, $150, 900 having been omitted from
the liabilities, which amount is shown
on the company's books and private
balance sheet. There is ample proof of
the false statement, and an ,exsmina-
ton of the books brought out many
strange entries which nobody could ex-
plain but the President, and he could