Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-06-28
THE POTTER INVESTIGATION.

The Potter investigating committee has
thus far done we'll. If it has not succeeded
in obtaining proof that Mr.. Hayes was cogni-
zant of the gross frauds, perfumes and corrur-
tons by which the Presidency was stolen for
him, it has fastened upon John Sherman
the worst man to-day to be found on the con-
tiuent-the craftsmanship of the band OF rob-
bers who robbed the people of Louisiana OF
their votes No amount OF lying by Mrs.
jerks, or of false swearing by her plastic and
yielding husband, can obscure or neutraiize
the testimony of Anderson, supported and
fortified as it is by documentary evidence
that cannot be gainsaid. John Sherman went
down to Louisiana to steal the votes of the
people of Louisiana, and he Is member OF
Mr.. Hayes's cabinet because he succeeded
in the crime. Under the pressure and
stimulus of necessity, in the ardor and
eagerness to accomplish the villalny,
he promised everything and any
thing asked or demanded as reward for
the services of the ruffians who aided him in
the high-handed outrage. His tongue
wagged freely in promises of office or money,
or BOTH so freely that Anderson and Weber
thought 1t the part of wisdom TO have in black
and white statement which the plotting
Ohio senator would not dare to deny and
which they would hold for use as a means of
pressure whenever Mr.. Hayes's friend should
manifest a disposition to ''go back upon
them" Hence the letter which Mrs. jerks,
a most shameless jade-but as legitimate an
outcome of Radicalism in Louisiana as Eliza
cha
letter it is known that six Photographic copies
are in existence, and as John Sherman s sig
nature is a peculiar one, there will be no dlt1-
Guilty in proving his guilt. But before these
are produced the committee will continue to
work at the web which they have woven so
ad-oiuy around the worst man IN America
They will give him every opportunity to in
crease his force of periured witnesses, so
that there may be no mistake IN measuring
the depth of infamy TO which once trusted
public servant has fallen in his determina-
ton to serve himself at the expense of the
people. 1t is his fate to be driven in dis
grace from the field of American politics.
His course has ended. His race as a schemer
and political charlatan is run. He must step
down and out. The dlsease-eaten Eliza
Pinkston, whom ne rehearsed for the dra-
matte scene in which the black bag figured
as a used-up kuklux target, served him to
some purpose, but Mrs. jerks is a failure,
Just as Keys cry of Mexicanizlng is failure
She IS pert and impairment, brazen and
brassy, impudent and cheeky, with some gift
of CAB, surface knowledge of the political
affairs of Louisiana, and a manner that Is a
cross between an English barmaid and a wo-
man of the world. But the free exercise Of
all these questionable gifts do not avail tC
save John Sherman as the principal conspira
tor in the theft of the votes of Louisiana
She can handy words with members of tht
committee, can pose in assumed Indignation
can coquet with honesty and IL
outright, but she cannot save Sher
man from conviction as the author of letter
every word of which is most damniDg evi
dence that he was the head-center OF tn
band Of Radical thieves who robbed the PEG
pie of the Presidency by stealing the votes G
the citizens of Louisiana. If this was a
the Potter committee had accomplished
would be sufficient to Justify its existence
But. beside this, it has disgraced Stanle
Mathews. the personal and partlcula
friend during the election squabble of Nj
Hayes, but above all it has proven beyon
cayil or question that 1t was by crime,
which John Sherman stands convicted, thu
the will of the people was defeated and it We
attempted to Mexicanize the republic by Ii
theft of the Presidency. 1t has succeeded !
making that judicIally plain which befol
was a matter of simple belief, resting upo
such proofs as were made available to col
pressional committees and others that wei