The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-07-17
INCOVERING THE FRAUD.
Proof Of the Sherman Letter.
Aud Of the tricks of the Visiting
SlHteSnen liza Louisiana.
a Remarkable Statement.
WAsHINGroN. July , !

| WAsHINGrON. July ,
| Em L. Weber was given permission to
| read his statement, provided he would swear
| to the facts it contained. The statement
| was read, and set forth that he had no per-
| sOnll knowledge that Democratic intimida-
| tion existed in the parishes of East and
| West Felicana; his brother, Daniel Weber
| aud James Anderson had informed him
| the parishes had gone Democratic; infiu-
| ence was brought TO bear upon his brother
! to make his prore-t; he had been approached
very frequently to use his influence with
| his brother To effect the signing of his pro-
| test; he saw Anderson sign his protest,
| and saw blanks therein; after Anderson
| had left, Judge Campbell attached his jurat
| to the paper; it was not sworn to by Ander-
| son; it was notorious fact in the custom
! house that Kellogg, Packard and others,
were pressing Anderson aud Weber to make
| their reSpec i've prot SITS; john Sherman
| was the spokesman tor the visiting states
men, and he Weber, knew that Sherman
| had given his brother assurances which
| caused him to allow his protest to stand
after il had been made; Weber had, in con-
versatiOn with Sherman, explained to him
| that his brother thought his parish had
| gone Democratic, and he was disposed to
| take back his protest, whereupon Sherman
| assured him his brother would be cared for,
| and requested that he send his brother to
| him; his brother on the day he received it.,
| shO wed him the Sherman letter of assurance
and said he had received it direct from Sher-
man witness was familiar with the hand
writing of Sherman, and satisfied
that the letter was written by that gem
| lleman in 1877; the Sherman letter was
weber family, and his sister-in law,
Mrs Daniel Weber, had endeaVored to find
| it among the papers of her husband, which
were packed away in two trunks and a
large ShOe-bOX; late in the summer of 1877
| he WITNESS had made search for the letter
aud had found it in the shoe-boX, and had
destroyed it forthwith; Mrs. jerks had
BEEN in no way connected with the author
ship of the the Sherman letter; about No
vember 9th it W as discovered that only six
of the Hayes electors could be saved, and
Kellogg, on that day, remarked to me.
1--WE are, after all, beaten - in regard to the
agreement between James f. Anderson and
D. A. Weber, / here state that l personally
know that such an ayr ement was entered
into, and was substantially the same as has
been presented; my brother was murdered
March 7th in the issue of the Ledger, of
which lie was editor, previous to his death
he threatened to publish certain letters and
a statement emanating from the State Au-
ditor's office, and that is supposed to have
supplied the immediate cause of his DEATH
and to that extent might suggest its au-
thOrs; while consider this threat the i'm
mediate cause of his Assassination, | do not
believe il would have occurred if he had not
made the protest which deprived the peo-
pie of their votes, and thus placed himself
in such position that his personal enemies
were encouraged to make this murderous
assault; in the Sherman report appears
purported affidavit from me as United States
supervisor, containing somewhat sweep
ing al legation of intimidation in the parish
of West Feliciana; | declined. when re-
queSted to make an affidavit on this subject,
TO do so; this paper was subsequently pre-
pared by l. B. jerks, and without reading
or examining it, signed it; performed no
duties as United States supervisor, and
should not have signed the paper If / had
previously read it; I did not swear to it,
but jurat was attached by the commissioner
as a matter of form merely; / have no de-
Tense to make for my action. except to say
that it was done without elaboration; Mrs.
jerks visited mysister-in-law in the summer |
oil 1877 and urged her to hunt for the Sher- |
man letter; Mrs. Weber declined to do so or |
to give her any Information whatever about |
the tweRty-SeVenth of May she brought /
letter from General Sheldon. offering TO nav /
Mrs. Weber's expenses to New Orleans and /
Washington Ia connection with the Sher-
man letter, and threatening il she did not i
come to have her arrested and forced to go
Mrs. jerks and her husband have always
called the paper the Sherman letter. Tom
jerks, in fact has claimed that his associa-
ton and corporation with Anderson was
such as to give him an equitable right to
some OF the benefits that were supposed to
be embraced in it; / have never heard il in
eimated, until she gave her testimony. that
Mrs. jerks was IN any way connected with
the authorship Of the letter; / have not, nor
has any member Of my family, sought 70
use his letter NJ means of obtaining Office:
saw members OF the M'Veigh commits
sion In New Orleans. and was informed
Of the Packard legislaEnr 81
certain mem 1eEH thereof; could tell some
hing Of the amounts paid IA cert6 iii cases
lnk Gould no say III 81 sbrrag q 6hil money,