The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-07-02


told him that was going to support Kellogg
for the long term. | WAS under no pledges to
support him. / can't fix any time when /
first heard Of Kellogg going for. the long
term. 1t was anterior to the meeting of the
Legislature. There was no doubt in the mat
ter that
HE WANTED THE LONG TERM.
That was natural j never made him any
promise and he never asked it.
/ don't remember any conversation held
with Gov Kellogg on the subject OF either
the long or short term. / ascertained that he
wanted the long, but I cannot refresh my
memory by any fact as to when I first heard
OF IT, It had nothing to do with the protests.
| cannot tell of any other elector making
protests before the Returning Board. Kel-
logg made his protest as an elector.
] know Mrs jerks. She was in Washington
during last winter, but she did not GO on
with me and | never was on the same train
with her. She was not, to my knowledge, there
in the interest OF my collectorship. never
requested her to go. l remember her call
ing at my house and telling me that she was
going to Washington; that was all. She may
have had some other errand to my house, for
she had called there several times before.
She once presented me with a
PIECE OF HAIR WORK.
She may have mentioned the Sherman let
ter that Anderson was said to have. She
came to my hotel in Washington and told me
man letter, but 1t made no impression ON me-
This was In January or February. | cannot
tell what the contents were. She spoke about
a letter Anderson had. The impression left
ly, and about Mrs. Weber, and that
she was trying to give herself some
importance. I had read her letter to
Gov. Kellogg in which she spoke of
Anderson not being able to do what they
wanted done, and that the letter was with
Mrs. Weber, a party Anderson could not get it
from. She led me to believe that she didn't
know anything about it, In her conversation
she appeared to assume that would give her
husband a place in the Custom-House, and
My first visit, from October to Decem-
her /, 1877, to Washington, was the time saw
Mrs. jerks again. She showed that she
wanted to advocate my appointment as Col
lector and professed to be my friend, but | let
her know that did not desire her support. |
saw Mr.. Sherman when he was here with the
visiting statesmen, several times, and he dined
at my house. ! do not remember having q
conversation with him regarding Anderson
and Weber. / had heard they were disaf-
fected. did speak about the intimidation in
certain parishes. do not think the visitors
knew about Anderson and Weber. / had had
prepared depositlons for the purpose Of show
Ing the situation in the Felicianas. / have no
recollection how many interviews
IHAD WITH SHERMAN.
i remember Jt1AI ne Olleu once WIFI me, anu
he came to the Custom-House once, and re-
collect one or two other calls. | don't recall
any conversation about Anderson or Weber or
about their official capacity as supervisors OF
eliciana remember that was somewhat
uneasy about Anderson and Weber not stand
ing up to their protests. sought fnfOrma-
tion on the subject and learned that there
were some doubts. / do not recollect any
conversation with Messrs. Sherman and Gar
field on the subject, and don't believe they
4nF
that Anderson and Weber would not stand up
to their protests. Ii the vote In the parishes OF
the Fellcianas and other parishes had not been
protested against and thrown out, as they
were thrown out, cannot tell, without calcu-
latiDg, what effect it would have had on my
election. BY excluding only the Felicanas
WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ELECTED.
BY excluding the votes as they were excu-
ded in East Baton Rouge, East and West Fe-
| liciana, and think Richland and Morehouse
and then taking all the rest OF the
| State, according to the returns of the
/ can't answer how many parishes or polls IL
parishes we're thrown out. / think q Mr.
| Blanchard was engaged in getting all the
election news he could, and did make ex:
| pect, q calculation and table of the vote.
don't think the Returning Board was in ses.
sion when he commenced. He commenced
this table and kept it up until the last parish
was heard from. He got this information
| just as he could from supervisors, canvassers
| kilograms, or anybody. am not able to say
/ had official returns before the board met:
cannot say that knew how the election hao
gone before the Returning Board had ended
| their labors. | cannot say accurately, / die
not know before the Returning Board began
it's sessions, and the counting OF the parishes
feated. 1t is possible that we did know II
here, but l cannot say. M impression is
the returns came in parish after parish; my
impression was that | would get a majority
Afterwards, when the vote was all In, the Re
parishes would be thrown out. don't thinl
the Returning Board held deliberations OF
what to throw out then.
Mr.. Blackburn-Did you know that if tn
vote Of five parishes was not thrown out ant
the vote OF the State was counted before tn
board met, it would defeat you and the Haye
electors?
Packard-I cannot say that I became ac
quainted with the tact as early as that
ibid NOT FEEL
by any means satisfied that ] would b
counted in, and the evidence of intimidatio
in the parishes sustained | discovered whe
, | got in all the boxes | knew, that unless dill
ferent parishes were thrown out would nc
be elected. That / saw plainly. / don
know whether that was before the boar
met or not. Mr.. Blanchard kept me poste
! all the time. am not able to say that Nj
0SSS&SA@o
,, the Returning Board.
Mrs jerks was not in Washington at my II
quest or for the purpose of furthering my az
, pointment as Collector. She could be OF n
; possible use to me, and never heard that 81
, could do me any good; don't believe it, !
, regard to my protests, believe they en-
: braced quite a number Of parishes, but can
name them.
Mrs jerks professed great friendship fc
me- as doubtless she did to several other cal
!, didates. There's DR.. Darrall, for an instanc
He professed the greatest interest
IN MY BEHALF, 4
Q but saw letter of his to Anderson, in whic
e he expressed great fear that / would get tt
Q nomination for Collector.
J. Mr.. Reed-The language of the election LAY
as see here referring to the Statute of 1877
|. shows that the officers of election can make
protest, but candidate can make only whi
is here called statement. I therefore desir
|, inasmuch as there has been througho1
\ the examination the use of the word prote
Il so often, that sections 8 and 26 Of the q
should be attached to the testimony.
,; Mr.. Blackburn said that the two section
u would best come in where he had examine