The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-06-13

In this number OF Ju6 oJarK OounIy
DEMOCRAT will be found full account Of
the testimony taken before the Potter
investigation committee. The develop.
ments are certainly startling, and prove
beyond doubt that the Presidency was
stolen, and that John Sherman, Stanley
Matthews ct al were probably the man
ipulators. The conclusion, too, is quite
reasonable, that Mr.. Hayes had guilty
knowledge. 1t will be seen that on the
oh, before the Potter Investigating Com
mittee, the returns Of the Electoral Col
lege of Louisiana were received from the
Secretary of State, Mr.. Gorham. A res
olution offered by Gen. Butler request
ing Hayes to furnish to the committee
the originals or certified copies of the
correspondence between him and Stan
ley Matthews on the subject of Ander-
sons appointment to Office was adopted,
Mr.. Glrham testified that he had fur
nished the committee all the Louisiana
documents in his possession, but had
been told that certain Returning Board
papers had been in the keeping of the
Senate's Sergeant-at. Arms, The cross
examination of Mr.. Anderson was then
continued by Mr., Reed. The witness
was shown paper purporting to be the
agreement between himself and the late
Mr.. Weber, sent by him to Stanley Mat
thews. He said it was a clever counter
felt. On the genuine papers were two
red ink stains, as he distinctly remem.
bered, which he had erased on the pa
per shown him there we're no marks Of
erasure. He was not sure that both of
the two sets of signatures to the agree
ment were executed in the notary pub
lies office in New Orleans, though that
was his impression. He thought the
signature of the notary public on the pa.
per shown was genuine, but he swore
positively that the paper shown him was
not the agreement he had mailed to
Stanley Matthews; he knew this not
only by the absence of the erasures, but
by the fact that it was only single
sheet, whereas the agreement was on a
double sheet. The original was wholly
in his handwriting, He did not recol-
lect Weber's signature.
A letter, identified by the witness as
in his handwriting, WAS put in evidence
1t was dated New Orleans, April 7, 1877,
was addressed to Stanley Matthews, and
informed that Packard had concluded
that his only hope "lay in his ability to
frighten the President Hayes] by
threatened exposure of rascaliLy com
mitted during the past campaign; )" also,
that the writer had been told by friends
of Packard, that three of the Louisiana
Republican Electors were ready to swear
that they had not voted for Hayes but
had voted blank, and that their sigma.
lures had been forged to the certificate
also that the Pitkin ct al. agreement had
been burned, and that the Weber agree.
ment, which he enclosed, WAS the last
piece of documentary evidence in exist.
enCe. A paper purporting to be the copy
of the Nash agreement was produced
Mr.. Anderson thought it the same he
had given to Stanley Matthews. He
produced letter written to him in Jan.
1877, by Mrs. jerks, in which she asked
him whether the document he wished to
get was the IS letter to D. and you"
The witness explained that S. stood for
Sherman and D. for Don (Weber), and |
that the ques ion related to the letter
which John Sherman told the commit
tee he did not believe that he ever wrote.
The witness explained that the Pitkin |
agreement was written assurance that |
he would be provided for if he stood by
the party and that the three Louisiana
Electors said to have voted blank were
Burch, Marks and Levisse, he had found
out afterward that there was "a good deal
of truth in the assertion"
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