Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-06-01
sHERM4N,s sKELET0N.

James E. Anderson, who has been sum
moned to testify before the Potter investigat-
ing committee, was supervisor of registration
in the parish Of East Feliciana, Louisiana, at
the time of the presidential election of 1876.
The votes cast in that parish numbered 1876
Democratic and only one Republican, al
though in 1874 there had been 1858 Repub-
lican votes cast, and for the election of 1876
2,l27 colored voters had registered and but
l ,OO4 white voters. It was, however, salts
factorily shown that the abstention of the
colored Republicans from voting had been
deliberately planned in advance. No Re-
publican ballots were supplied to the voters.
No organization had been effected. The
word was passed that Republicans were to
stay at home. The design of all this was to
give the Republicans prima facie case of
'bull-dozing,'' upon which the returning
board might throw out of the count the
whole vote of East Feliciana and other par
ishes. It was an artful dodge of a villainous
kind, but it worked smoothly.
Anderson's share in the business was as
supervisor to attach to his return of the.
votes protest stating that tho election had
been unfairly conducted on account of in
timidation by the Democrats. On Novem-
Der ID, six days after the election, he sent in
bis return to the State board of returns. No
protest accompanied it. Ten days later he
delivered, to the returning board paper al
leging thathe had been inundated while in
the discharge of his. duties. During these
ten days =, Anderson : seems to have
had. some. idea that be conld squeeze money
out-of the Democrats by agreeing not to,
make a protest, and # was during these ten
days that Pirate. Sherman, becoming aware
Of Anderson's hakiness, braced him up. by
writing the letter of which 50 much has been
said, egging HIM on to enter the protest., The
returning board threw out the vote Of East
Feliciana, on the strength Of Anderson ale.
cations, although they were made long after
the time as!ctibed By law for entering pro
tests, and although Anderson had nothing
whatever to do with the actual voting, his
duties being simply TO supervise the registra-
,tion, and to receive the returns from the
.comniissio ners1 election and forward them
to the returning board.
fanThese are the outlines Of the occurrences
Ii Louisiana concerning which. the. Potter
Commute will take evidence Most Of the
points il the were proved be true
before the committee Of Congress that iyisr
rited Louisiana and made an investigation
So
last year, ,Sherman,,s part II, tha conspiracy
has yet to be proved. The letter he wrote to
Anderson is said to have been destroyed. but
photographs Of it are in existence. 1t must
not be supposed, however, that when the
document is published it. will exhibit Sher-
man az advising Anderson, in 50 many. words
to enter. q false protest., Sherman is.too
wary an Old FOX to make such mistake as
that. He used indirect and vague terms,
leaving Anderson to fill in the missing in
.struotions that would suggest themselves to
= political wire-pnlles and striker. The hon
stpeople Of the North leo Sherman wrote,
or words to that effect, would sustain
Anderson in protesting against the wicked
bulldozing of tho Democrats. The federal
government would protect him. The safety
tof the country demanded that the Republi-
can party should remain in power. In such