Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-03

on such fools errand. l think you
had better retire to the shades Of pri-
vate life and NEEDLE no more with
politics. l would recommend
shower bath daily. 1t sometimes
cures in the mild form.
This letter is endorsed by Mrs.
jerks rs the Anderson cursing letter,
April III, 1873.
New ORLEANS, April Is, 1878.
Mr.. ANDERSON Permit me to con-
graduate you on the discovery of your
Eldorado I. G. letter, which has long
existed as bright spot in your imag-
ination. Did you exclaim: rs that
the letter which see before me-" or
ooh, there are thousands of them if
you only knew where to find Them"
Nay l am not mad, and really have
the highest admiration for the Ad-
ministration. l regret to perceive
my good sir, like many of your broth
err lunatics l have CHANGED to meet,
you deem others mad and only your
self sane. A common case. Many
thanks for your kind and disinterest-
ed advice, though am unable to avail
L
much admire the science of politics,
l feel must bask IN their sunshine
for time ut least. ! think q slight
shadow of reason might return to you
if you would only take trip through
the hills of East Feliciana Parish, and
let the bulldozers get hold of you
once more. / imagine your ultimate
cure under this treatment would be
certain and thereby confer great ben
eft on your friends. Your ideas
seem very much mixed judging from
the wild manner in which you inter-
mingle my private affairs with pclit-
ical matters. Pardon me, I am too
good Republican to think of my
own interest when / feel that the very
life of the Republic and well-being Of
my own are at stake. Behold in me
true patriot.
N. b. would suggest you keep
that man arith document in sight.
Stick closer to him than brother.
Grapple him to your soul. Let your
understanding qytth him be specific
enough. Should you get the docu-
ment let no man tear it from you, but
s'hold the fort" with much dignitude.
Hoping you may in time recover from
your mental iudisposition, and regain
your usual intellectually, am with
much sympathy, yours,
A. ID. jerks.
Lam not at all interested in aught
Senator M may or may not have
said, SO don't distress yourself
"swoop."
After this word follows represen-
tation of bird in the act Of swallow
ing fly.
i In letter to j. r. Sypher, dated
New Orleans, April Goth, 1878, Mrs.
jerks says:
81 am not aware ever offered to
sell anything to you for $500 as Mr.,
A. says. Knowing we'll his Munchau-
sen proclivities, l doubt you ever
made such statement---in fact it was
quite impossible that you could have
done So"
To this letter Sypher replied as fol.
: lows:
"My DEAR MADAM Your letter
of the 9th inst, in receipt. OF course
, upon the strength of the very pleas.
ant and protracted interview I had
: with you at Washington ii would
have been impossible for me TO have
named the price at which the letter
could have been obtained. No such
: thing was talked of and have never
expressed nor formed an opinion al
to whetheryo could, ifyou were evel
so willing, produce the letter upor
any conditions or for any considera
. ton. As to that Weber Anderson
: letter, / said to you ii possessed nc
special value, and beyond a curiosity
to know whether it was in existenct
, or whether it had been destroyed,
: cared nothing about it.
j r. SyPHER."
The committee in executive session
decided TO refer the case of Bonld'
Baker, recusant witness, to the u. S
District Attorney here for his dcci
: sion, as to how the committee should
act in the case.
WAsHINGToN, July 1.-The Potter
Committee, to-day, recalled Thos. e
!! Anderson, who testified that he dit
: not see any one sign the certificates o
the electoral vote while in the Gov
! ernor's Office, New Orleans; that Mrs
! jerks, pleading the poverty of bel
: mother, asked him to appoint bel
3 brother, A. X. Murdoch, to a plac,
in the custom house. Witness prom
9 iced ia do something for him thi
month, but has not yet. Murdoch
: has had Il letter from Senator KEEL
), logg for some time requesting wit
"a ness to do something for him.
: garding the operations of the return
} ing board elected nothing new. Ii
reply to Gen. Hunton witness said thu
e returning board as body never at
Z tempted to fill the vacancy with
democrat. He had spoken I,
- Mr.. Smith, at present reporter on thu
= New Orleans Democrat. about accept
> ing an appointment on the board bu
d he refused. Never knew of tn,
board having asked Smith; never
% heard it stated by any member of Tho
board that the presence of demo
crat was undesirable. Witness in re
ply 10 Mr.. Cox said he had hearG
: that Daniel Webber was killed be
. cause he had signed his protest
:, never heard he was killed as Judg,
. |
: was supposed to have the Sherman
y letter on his person.
Thos. II. jerks testified that he haC
never made an affidavit similar to tn,
!. one submitted before the Louisiana
subcommittee yesterday. and in the
; handwriting of James +, Anderson
: never saw Notary Seymour in New
: Orleans before whom the affidavit ap
= pears to have been made.
!. !, James +. Anderson asking permits
q ! sion to explain stated that on the It'll
!. !. of May he met jerks on the street
and as he (Anderson) was going tt
leave at Up. m. jerks requested hin
to use his influence in securing him Q
: position in Washington, and after
= some conversation jerks went with
: witness to his office in the custom
house and dictated the affidavit in
;, question and he (Anderson) copied il
: and then they went to Notary Sey'
), mour's office and jerks swore to the
> document. The purpose of making
the affidavit was to aid Anderson in
! securing jerks position. Ander
son was to show the affidavit to Mat
thews and endeavor to secure him 81
,. appointment on the strength of it.
! Emile l.. Webber, brother Of Dan
q Weber, was sworn, desiring to read
a statement of his connection with thu
republican party.
e Cox objected to the statement reaG
: being part of the testimony ant
!. Weber retired for the present.
ii. Conquest Clarke, former private
secretary of Gov. Kellogg, retold hi
5 recollections of signing the electora
certificates and promptly and EN-
4 phatically denied all knowledge o.
who appended the supposed forged
signature.
A secret session followed.
When the doors were reopeneG
Emile Weber was recalled and wa!
, given permission to read his state
, ment, provided he would swear to thu
facts contained in the statement. /
was read and set forth that he had ne
personal knowledge that Democratic
intimidation had existed in the Par
ishes of East and West Feliciana