The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1878-08-01

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Yours as ever,
Jos. H. WILSON
Gen. Butler is getting in his work
where it will do the most good. Read
the following, from the testimony taken
before the Potter committee last week:
"Ex ongressman Morey was called,
and said there was no bulldozing in Mad
ison in 1876, and the result in that parish
was an increase of 102 votes over the usual
Republican majority in 1874
Witness-One of the Republican coun-
sci before the Returning Board said the
fact of intimidation, violence, and murder
in the bulldozed parishes was not disput-
ed. The machinery of the courts is in
the hands of the Democrats, and he never
heard Of any attempt made to bring the
offenders to justice Eliza Pinzston lived
in Ouachita Parish, where the Democrats
are in power The witness, from personal
inspection, was satisfied that the woman
had been dangerously MANNED.
She was carried into the rooms of the
Returning Board on a sofa. The impress
sion prevailed that this exhibition would
have good effect, and his own impress
sion was that it would be an excellent
thing to do in furtherance of the cause.
Witness said on the face of the returns
Nichols and the Tilden Electors had
majority; that the Returning Board threw
out enough votes to elect Packard. and
after this threw out 1912 votes to elect
the Hayes Electors. This condition of
things was discussed by prominent poll
ticians, the visiting statesmen, and the
Republican Council. 1t was discussed by
party leaders on both sides. We tried to
make, under the law, a case for Packard,
and presented protests against everything
illegal or irregular. 1 made some fgur-
ing as to what results would be produced
if certain parish returns were thrown out.
l think it probable the figures were not
mentioned to the visiting statesmen, but
l naturally supposed the matter would be
brought to their attention. | understood
the result of the calculation was sent to
Florida, so as to come to the knowledge
of the officials.
Later on in the examination witness
said he had no doubt the calculation con
cerning the ultimate result in Louisiana
was communica ted to the visiting politi-
clans, as they were as much interested in
knowing what would be the result in
Louisiana as the Republicans there were
in knowing what would be the result in
Florida
Witness, in answer to a question by
Butler, said the result in the State showed
that both Packard and Hayes were elect
ed under the laws Witness then testi-
| fed at length regarding the Packard
government and the McVeagh Commits
sion. He said among other things that
after Packard was inaugurated he could
not be removed from Office unless by i'm
peachment, and no attempt was made to
do this
Q Do you say that the commission
wanted to effect compromise between
| the legal Legislature and the mob? A.
| The commission at all times disclaimed
having any authority except of an advise
ry character in the matter of etfecting a
compromise between the Packard and
Nichols Legislatures.
G. Did you say that such men as Gen.
Hawley and Mr.. McVeagh would advise
a compromise between mob and legal
Legislature?
Witness answered in the affirmative,
and added that owing to his intimacy
with Gen. Hawley, he had free conversa-
tions with him, and discovered that Gen.
| Hawley desired to do what was fair, but
was hampered by his instructions. Pack
ard was recognized in all parts of the
State, and was able to maintain himself
at the Capitol with his own officers, and
without assistance from the troops.
Witness was then interrogated as to the
formation of the Nichols Legislature,
and related the means by which the
Packard Legislature was destroyed, such
members of the latter as went to the
former receiving their per diem and
mileage, some of them being paid There
were rumors that bribery had been used
to break up the Packard Legislature, and
this was discussed by the Republicans
1t was the general understanding, and
felt by those who believed that Packard
was elected, that the mission of the com
mission particularly was to destroy the
Packard government and to establish h
that of Nichols; that the troops were to
be withdrawn as part of the scheme, after
the Packard government had been de
prived of their courts and court buildings,
police and State. The White League was
sworn in as Nichols militia. The Re
publicans were dispirited, and labored in
every honorable way to have the validity
of the Packard government examined by
the Commissioners, and to provide the
means of subsistence of the adherents of
the Packard Legislature, who were very
poor. They remained with it longer
than could be reasonably expected, under
! the circumstances, and as long, if not
| longer, than white men would do in any
State of the Union, under similar circum-
stances, and in the face of the same de
gree of temptation from the opposite
party.
Gen. Butler-I want you to distinctly
unders tand it is not them | blame.
blame the tempter, not the tempted. Do
you believe that if the Packard govern
ment had had the recognition of the
general government, and such moral sup
port as would enable it to take from the
mob the Court House and State arms, it
could have maintained itselfin Louisiana?
Answer-My own belief is it would
have been maintained. After the Elect.
oral Committee counted the vote of
Florida for Hayes, it was considered GER
tain in New Orleans, as a settled matter,
that the vote of Louisiana would also be
counted for Hayes, and there was not the
least doubt that the Packard government
would be maintained. This was the view
of the Democrats as well Republicans.
ATLANTIC CITY, July 27-Ex-Congress-
man Morey resumed the witness chair
this morning, and gave it as his impress
sion that if the Packard government had
been recognized in the first place, as Kel-
logg's government had been. and had the