Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-06-06
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AUG u STA,
Thursday Morning. June @. 1878.
Anderson.

If the democrats had searched the
prisons of the country for the biggest ras-
cal they could find to assist them in their
fraud investigation, they would not have
discovered a greater than James r. An
derson. To call him liar and perlurer Is
a very mild representation of his charac-
ter; he is not the least ashamed to ac-
knowledge, where it suits his purpose,
that he is both. lie has lied to al parties,
and for all parties, according to his own
confession. He has made himself a specta-
Gle for public execration and yet he seems
TO glory in his shame.
Before the election in Louisiana, in 1876.
he declined to go the East FeicIana parish
to attend to his duties AS supervisor OF
Registration. and stated to leading repub-
licans as a reason for refusing to go that
he was afraid of being assassnated by
democrats, who were bound TO carry the
parish by intimidation. He was however
induced to go and did 90 and attended to
his duties. After the election he came
down TO New Orleans, and reported to the
republicans that the election was tair and
orderly. Then, as he says, at the request
Of Pilkin, Packard, Kellogg AMI others,
he filed protest declaring that intimda-
ton was employed by the democrats, per
petrating this falsebood, or what he now
y,fa in nrtar h..
swears, to save the election of Hayes and
Wheeler. On the 18th of January 1877,
he testified before the Senate Committee
on Privileges and elections. at New Or
leans, that when Mr.. Packard came to
East Feiciana in September. 1876, to hold
q republican meeting, the democrats
turned out in force. and that 1.-THE MAORI
ty of them were intoxicated :" that "the
speakers were Interrupted and insulted, ="
so that they were glad to get away on a
special train. During that day, while he
[Anderson] was registering the colored
voters, there swas an organized effort on
the part of the democrats to kill him, and
that this was defeated by the friendly
offices of his democratic clerk. Yet he
came to New Orleans and reported the
election orderly aud fair. Then he filed
his protest that it was not Which of
these positions was true and which false
The protest which be signed and filed
alleging intimidation was also signed by
Weber. the Supervisor of the West Fell
ciana district. Eight weeks after the pro-
test was signed, Weber was witness be-
fore the House committee, and gave testi-
mony to the following effect: He knew
of fifty colored voters who were dis
charged in one town for attending re-
publican meeting. They were left in
state OF starvation. He was warned to
leave or his life would be taken. In reply
to Senator Mcdonald he said the whole
campaign was one of intimidation. The
violence and intimidation of colored PEG
pie so terrorized republicans that they
were afraid to live in their houses; at
least five hundred were prevented from
voting, six hundred did not attempt to
vote and at least six or seven hundred
men were forced to vote the democratic
ticket. He further testified in reply TO
questions by Senator Mcdonald that to
name bulldozers in his parish he would
have to name three-fourths of all the DEM
ocrats in it. and that nearly every man
who was able to bear gun had been out
at some time. He could give several hun
dred names of men who had ridden
through the parish committing acts of vio-
lence or engaged in murders.
Weber has since been murdered by
bull-dozers, and now Anderson swears that
the protest was forgery. Believe him
who will. The perjured villain has made
it impossible for any one to believe what
he says.
One thing, however, he has made plain
to common apprehension. that he believed
he had an opportunity to sell out the
election in Louisiana, and this he ATTEMPT
ed to do. regardless which patty was the
buyer, democrat or republican, SO that
he lined his pockets well. Having failed
to secure anything from the republicans,
he offered his services to the democrats.
and they are now using him for the pur-
pose OF driving Hayes from the Presi-
dency and putting Tllden in. That he
fooled Stanley Matthews is evident. That
he is fooling the democrats far worse is
just as certain. The development of
fraud has been astoundinglv large since
this scape-gallows began to testify. but
none has been developed that effects the
Presidents title or the Louisiana election.
The greenbackers nominated as their
candidate for Governor, Hon Joseph L
Smith OF Oldtown. a man whose
name was not mentioned until the con-