The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-07-03
LIE PINKSTON.

And now it is in order for Murat Halstead
to come to the front and explain all about
the perjures committed by his swamp angel,
Lie Pinkston, who damned her soul in the
interest of Hayes for $500, and then got
cheated out of $3.50 of the amount by the
men who induced her to commit the crime
of perjury. A more revolving story of crime
was never tod. 1t stamps upon Hayes title
another plague spot ii makes radicalism still
more UNANIMOUSLY repulsive; it adds to the
already overgrown hideousness of the Louis
lana returning board atrociousness new
features of scouDdrelism hitherto unknown.
This poor miserable wretch Lie PinkstOn,
having been swindled by those who used
her throat as a sewer for the most blasphem-
Gus perjuries ever recorded since the day
when the corner stones of hell was laid, now
comes forward and confesses that her whole
story was lie. The New York Herald
paints the picture of her appearance before
the returning board when j. Madison Wells,
as head devil, surrounded by his Imps of
darkness, were acting under the approval of
Sherman, Stanley Matthews and othersgents
Of Hayes The Herald says
The tragic appearance OF this poor woman
before the ,eturning board and the visiting
statesmen, in 1876, has hardly been forgotten
by anybody. Weak, scarcely able to speak,
stretched upon a sofa, she was suddenly but
tenderly brought into the room where Wells
and Anderson were pretending to count the
vote of Louisiana, and being questioned she
\ gave in low tones and apparently with ex-
! treme suffering from her numerous wounds,
aa account of a brutal and cold blooded act OF
I assassination and outrage OF which she and
/ her husband had been the yict ms at the hands
- Ham IL. m nn ri Sh
4 The manner of her introduction, her appear
| ance of suffering and exhaus ion, and the story
sn eee Io. efiedt 9pon the Whole country DEM
/ Ocrats as well as republicans decs9red that
/ this kind of thing would not do. For the
moment nobody doubted the truth of her
/ tale, for was she not there herself, wounded,
SCARED, suffering, to tell it? When the re
1 turning board made that awkward dis
/ covery of the insertion in a parish return of a
! protest dated ten days after the return
mailed, the ready-witted Mr.. Stoughton came
promptly to the rescue with the immortal re-
! IN ark that "Here is evidently a clerical error"
but when Eliza Pinkston testified from her
/ sofa no democratic StOughton was there to
throw doubt upon her story. Very soon 1t was
pronounced on positive evidence TO be false;
! but IL was the TOO late; Eliza had disappeared
| and her tale remained as convenient cam
paign document.
We submit that it is impossible to give the
picture darker shades. 1t is purely radical
scene in all of its characters and all of its
shades of coloring. The Herald proceeds TO
say, in commenting upon the subject;
Anderson, Agnes jerks, Eliza Plnkston,
| Dennis, Stearns, McLin, Madison Wells-theSe
! are the kind of people about whom repuo- lean
stump orators preached 10 the country In 1876;
| these were the heroes and martyrs, the up
holders of equal rights, the faithful and suffer-
ing unionists, the gentlemen as Intelligent
! and as honest rs i am" as MIR. sherman feel
ingly described the members OF the returning
| board in his place in the senate. Wherever
/ the Potter committee has touched the politics
| of Louisiana or Florida IL has turned up
/ perjury or brazen mendacity. so Jar as
| the committee has gone ii has not heard q
| single witness of importance whose testl.
1 mony the public trusts. Yet 1t has examined
some of the most important republicans In
those states Who believes McLin? Yet Nc
Lin S acts and vote on the Florida returning
board gave that state TO the republicans.
| Who believes Anderson? Yet AndersOns
protest deprived a whole parish OF its VOTE
aud without it or some equivalent act OF ras-
| cality Louisiana must have gone TO the demo-
Gratis who believes Dennis? But Dennis
swears that he could have given Florida 70
Tilden, and would have done 50 II the visiting
statesmen had not persuaded him that ne
would be "taken care Of" Here was Tue
greatest, the most momentous act OF the peo-
pie Of the United States-the selection Oh IneH