New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-06-03

can fail to discover the cause of this hesitation
That protest. if made. was to be of incalculable
value not only to the Republican party of Louisi-
ana, but of the whole Nation and Anderson was de-
termined that his reward for making it should be
commensurate with its Importance. His present
version of the manner in which the protest was
drawn up proves this beyond question.
But the promises he secured from the Republicans
of Louisiana were not satisfactory. Mr.. Kellogg.
the Governor, was not distinguished among his
party friends for living up to agreements which he
made with them. New-Orleans was full, and had
been for four years, of men who had served Gov
ernor Kellogg politically and who had failed to get
their rewards. Anderson and Weber, who seem to
have been influenced by the same motives, saw the
Importance of placing their hope of future reward
on more solid foundation than Governor Kellogg's
promises The first thing they did. therefore, was
terday, in explanation of the protests they had
signed, and delivered it into the hands Of the Re
rhs sdSmy with
the Democrats, provided that their arrangements
with the Republicans fell through. They could
have had no other conceivable motive in preparing
it. This was the condition of affairs when Mr..
Sherman and the other Republican statesmen from
the North arrived upon the scene. Anderson and
Weber saw their opportunity OF placing their hope
of future reward from the Republican party beyond
all question.
THE EFFORT TO ENTRAP SHERMAN.
II is inconcelvable that the conversation between
Mr.. Sherman and these men should have been of the
character now described by Anderson. Men do not
habitualy confess such crimes as perjury and cleo
ton frauds to stranger at their first interview with
him, and in public place like Moreans restaurant
in New Orleans. But Mr. Sherman had already
heard something about the election in East Fehci-
ana Parish. He knew that only one or two votes
had been cast for the Republican ticket. where hum
dreds or thousands were expected to have been cen
| 1lx-
leans that East Fcliciana Parish was bulldozed
worse than almost any other in the State. Anderson
himself had assigned as the reason for not making
| the protest required by law before leaving East
Feliciana Parish that he feared that his life would
be taken if he did So. 1t is very easy to be-
leve therefore, that if he and Weber went to Mr.
Sherman, as Anderson now says they did, and told
him OF this state of affairs, OF the bodily fear they
were in, and the disastrous effect upon their for
tunes which was likely tOresut from their signing
the protests he would have done his best to reas-
sure them. and he might have written the let,
| ter pretended copy of which Anderson produced
Yesterday in perfect good faith and without sus-
picon of wrong. There certainly conld not be any,
| thing criminal in a promise that II men who did
duty honestly aa s on e 20 and
ruined financially they should be taken care OF IN
the event of the success of the Republican party.
written by Secretary Sherman under, these circum-
stances there is nothing in it OF which he need to be
| ashamed.
Mr.. sHERMAN's POSITIVE DENIAL.
Secretary Sherman positively denies all of Ander-
sons testimony in which he pretends to give the
substance of a conversation with the Secretary in
New Orleans In a conversation this evening Mr..
Sherman also reiterated his denial of the writing OF
his alleged letter. He pointed to its internal evil
dence of clumsy construction, quoting its second
| sentence [" Neither Mr. Hayes myself. the gentle
men who accompany me. or the country at large can
ever forget" etc and invited attention 70 ans
%ns Of I piece with the spelling Of the word
ment with q :" ~ in the draft prepared by Ander-
son for his telegram to Stanley Matthew'S
| Mr. Sherman said further that he thOughtit would
soon be shown and proved beyond all possibility OF
| doubt contravention, not only by what persons
IN what place the forgery was committed and what
objects the perpetrators hoped to attain by their
| crime.
| Mr.. Sherman said it was very strange indeed to
him that the alleged letter should ever have OBJ
tanned the slightest credence whatever, especially
when il is remembered that Anderson had never
shown 1t or spoken Of ii to himself or to Stanley
| Matthews in his applications for position: The
very first thing he would have done would have
been to use it, and il effectively, rs it was his
sharpest weapon But even in his last interview with
Mr. Sherman at the Treasury Department, when
attes private took k down what
| document. Indeed, IN his testimony Anderson dis
tincy stated that he had not spoken OF or used the
this whole business is the Secretary said that STAN
| lev Matthews should have allowed himself, through
ignorance, to be partly imposed upon and used by
| these scoundrels
THE MATTHEWS LETTERS.
| NOTHING CRIMINAL SHOWN BY THEM-THE sENA-
TOR GUILTY ONLY OF LACK OF POLITICAL
WISDOM.
| lbY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRrBUsE.i
| WASHINGTON, June 2.-Great surprise has been
EXPRESSED yesterday and to-day at the predicament
in which Anderson's testimony TO have placed
Senator Stanley Matthews, and that anything
which Anderson said to him should have had much
weight; but there seems to be no sensible way to
plain the foolish letters which Mr. Matthews wrote to
Anderson except on the ground Of political stupidity