Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-06-24

Q. Who did you deliver the letter to Webe

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handed you?
A. did not say to whom delivered it.
@. But suppose you tell us7
A. shall decline to answer the question.
Q. What did the gentleman do with it to
whom you delivered il?
a. did not say delivered it to any one.
@. Why, then do you decline to answer
A. Because do decline to answer the cues
ton, as perhaps it was not delivered at all.
@. Did you deliver it to anybody, or did you
keep it yourself?
A. Is it necessary in this case that you
should know that2
Q. It may be.
a. Well, ask some other question.
A. No, would rather ask you, that?
4. 1t was not deiveted to Anybody in par
ticular.
@. Was 1t delivered to anybody in gen
eral?
A. It might have been, because it was a
public document you know, pertaining to the
public.
you deliver it?
A. Why, the public ought to have received
@. Who did receive it?
A. did not deliver it to any one espe-
cially.
Q. Who wrote the reply to it.
A. emphatically and distinctly decline to
tell you. 1t is sufficient he gotta reply.
@. 1t is sufficient for you to cxonerate Sher-
man, but you CAM do that unless you let us
know who the man was who wrote the letter.
A. How do you know it was man?
A. Was it yourself?
a. decline distinctly and emphatically to
answer.
@. Do you mean that you wrote the answer?
A. do not mean anything Of the kind. I
say the answer was dictated by me and by
no one else.
Q. To whom3
A. To Weber and Anderson.
B. But to whom did you dictate it?
A. 1t is of no use for you to know any more
than that-that ought to satisfy you.
@. But am not satisfied?
A. Then am sorry for you.
Q. And do not think the committee is
satisfied?
A. Iregret that they are not, but will tell
you no more about it.
you give us the name Of the person who wrote
it.
A. Sherman was not there; he was up stairs,
believc-at least the usher said SO.
z. Did you dictate it to one of the visiting
statesmen?
A. No. sir. was not on intimate terms
enough with him to dictate {. letter to them.
Besides they had sense enough to dictate their
own letters.
@. Then it was to some person who had not
sense enough to dictate letter?
A. Well, they might have had sense enough,
but not enough to assume the statesmanlike
style that was required.
Q. You are rather proud of that perform
ance, are you not?
A. No, sir; I am not.
Q. You Thought the letter looked rather
statesmanlike?
A, Well, never thought about it until l
saw it in print, and then did think it looked
rather imposing. Naughter.)
@. You wanted Weber to remain under the
impression that it was from Sherman?
A. Yes sir. The end justifes the MEANS
especially in Louisiana politics.
@. There were good many guarantees de-
manded at that time?
A. Yes sir, there was a class of persons who
wanted them.
@. There was place there where guarantees
could be ground out?
A. Yes sir.
@. Were there any?
A. Yes, by Democrats some of them.
@. You were not in good standing at Demo
cratic headquarters were you?
A. I had versatility in politics. I did not
know in the morning what my politlcs would
be in the evening. (Laughter.)
@. Do you mean to say that you were pres
ent at the dictation of other letters or guar
antics.
A. Oh, no sir, but heard of lots of them.
@. Do you remember who was in parlor F
at that particular time?
A. l was in haste, and never looked
around. / know there were a great many
lights in the political world there.