Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-08-16

hard on him. If be Is 10 be de-
serted by all his friends there will
remain nothing fer him to do ex-
cept, perhaps, to crowd into But
leI's famous "Hole in the Sky"
the Potter Iavessfgsssna- L.uter's
Testimony.
NEW YORK, August 15th.-They
would manufacture q lot of affida-
Wits just for moral appearance, you
know. Kellogg wanted me to
manufacture affidavits, but 1 re-
fused. never did wrong in my
life and l sacrificed many oportu-
mites to keep within the dictates
of my conscience. (Great laugh
ter.) | thought by working A u
derson | should get enough evil
dence out of him to expose the
whole thing and make u sensation
and my fortune. can't say what
would have done il some one had
offered me $1,000 to keep quiet
and the high moral statesmen had
come PRESSING around me to keep
my mouth shut. Laughter.)
When Anderson told me he had
signed the protest and got nc
money Tor it, L told him the visit
ing statesmen and Kellogg would
leave him in the mud. l told him
If he had held out little longer he
could get documents from those
visitlng statesmen that would
make them his slaves for the re.
mainder Of their political lives,
About this time Anderson began
jumping around aud threatening
to whip Pitkin, Kellogg and ever.
ybody else. Kellogg and Others
called on mo one day aud said,
"Come, old fellow, 1 want to intro
duce you to the visiting states
men," The statesmen admired the
hall in the Naval Office aud then
edged toward the "afIidavit mill.n
| told Kellogg 1 would not go with
such lot of frauds. was afraid
If I met them they might gel
something out of me. My desk in
the Custom House was q sort o.
political Mecca, where all the Loui
siana statesmen came for fnforma
ton. Anderson told me he aDC
Weber had had an interview with
Sherman and that Sherman haC
promised them everything. Itolt
Anderson he was an unmitigate(
lunatic to believe in anything bu'
q written contract. He said he wal
promised the Naval office and
told him he would never get 1t ant
he hasn't. Laughter Another
day he called on me and said, "pvt
got It," replied, "What have yol
got, more taffy?' He said, mo
sir, pve got them fixed" H,
pulled out a letter and said 1t wa.
from John Sherman and was let
ter giving him the Naval office
He showed me John Sherman'i
name ut the foot of the letter, bu
refused to let me see the remainder
of the letter. I had a talk with
Darrell aud Kellogg about that let
ter. Kellogg said the letter wal
only a general one and nOn-com
initial. Kellogg and / considere,
the count of votes finished before
it was begun. daughter 1 spok,
with Darrell about the Sherman
letter and he said it gave no griI
to Anderson on the statesmen
They had hold on him, however
on his pocket. II he had opened hi
mouth for the Democrats they
could produce his swarm protes
and have him up for PERJURY. The
bulldozers were plentiful and woult
shoot white man or black mantle
get All Office. Il. q. Butler, Ander
sons clerk, was one of these.
had a difficulty with him
in Vermillion Parish and tried tt
kill him, but failed. lie IS dea(
now, however. Yarmouth admit
ted that the State would be lost by
200 votes. Yarmouth said Il
me, confidentially: "rhese visit
ing statesmen are lot Of OLD
frauds, and have come down here
to steal the State; and they will
steal it, too."
After some further testimony O
like character, the witness wal
cross-examined by Gen. Butler
He said he was intimately &C
quainted with all the politicians o
Louisiana, and in his judgment
they were the most complete set o
rascals he ever met; that Case.
nave, Of the Returning Board, was
the hOnestest of the lot. Witness
was then questioned as to his
standard of honesty, and becoming
little nettled at the manner ol
the questioning, said he proposed
answering when, how and where
he chose. He then submitted 9
copy of his paper in which he pub
llshed his prediction that the elec.
ton of 1876 would turn on Louisi.
ana. Several extracts from papers
were read to the committee. Sew.
eral letters from Anderson ia
Woods were put in evidence. Wit
ness complained that he was not
allowed to make a full statement
of his record to the committee.
Potter said they only wanted his
testimony. Adjourned.
shos By . Trnnny.
CHICAGO, August 15th.-E. B.
Clark, resident Of Lagrange, was
murdered last night by a horse-
thief tramp, who shot him as he
was going into his stable. The
murderer escaped.
A Dreudfuf DcRsb.
MELRoSE, August 18th While
the sloop Carrie True was lying in
the creek here last night, sailor
named H. BehlmaD, in charge, at
tempting to wade out in the cham
mel, became imbedjed in the mud
and had to wait fast approaching
death. No one heard his cries, but,
with the morning, laoore7s on the
shore discovered his body.
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