Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-07-26

Anderson replied: If you don't, then ther,
is no use in my recalling it.
Secretary Sherman-Whst did you tall
| with me about in that interview?
Mr.. Anderson told you | had come Il
Washington to seek for a place; you told mt
you had no place IN your department fol
me; told you | did not care for place il
| your department, | came for place in the
state department, and you told me to 90 e
Mr.. Evarts; told you | had been to Evart.
and wanted your Endorsement, aud you said
| you would not give 1t to me; that was the END
| of it; Mr. Wells came Ia and lett.
In reply to a question the secretary said
hat while in New Orleans he wrote letter
70 Governor Hayes, as follows:
| STATE OF LOUISIANA. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, /
| NEW ORLEANS, November %, 1875.
My DEAR SIR have not written you
sooner, for the progress OF our investigation
will be known b you through the papers
sooner than from my letters, and the tele-
graph Office here is more public than a
sheriff s sale. We sometimes hear of pri-
vate kilograms before they are delivered.
The action of the returning board has thus
far been open, and only confirms the general
result known before. We are now approach
ing the contested parishes. In five of them,
viz, Baton Rouge, East and West Fellci-
ana, Morehouse and Ouachita, the evil
| dence of intimidation is so well made
out on paper that no man can doubt,
| as to the Just exclusion of their vote; In these
parishes alone we ought to have maj ority
of seven thousand. But under the law the
| entire returns must be excluded in all election
districts where intimidation has affected the
result. This done. the result will give the
Hayes electors maJorlties aggregatlng "A, Ill,
/ and the T,lden electors majorities aggre-
/ eating q, 633, but In almost every parish the
/ official returns vary somewhattrom the stated
| majorities thus far, and will slightly reduce
l tha Rar, lraasa ~ no rrnta Of ci
| disputed parish has thus far been laid aside,
and among them are two parishes where
most tooliGh blunder, or something worse,
was made IN emitting from the Republican
| tickets the names Of all the electors but the
| two senatorial and one district elector. The
Democrats claim that this will lose over two
| thousand votes, but our friends, whose in
| formation we have generally found con-
| frmed, say 1T will lose US about eleven hum
| dred and ninety three votes. The law seems
conclusive that the defective ballots cannot
| be counted for any elector but those named
on the ticket, though it is conclu
sively shown that the remaining elecC-
ors were omitted by reason of a mistaken
| idea that each district could only vote for one
| elector. The whole trouble grew out of the
fact that in these two parishes a candidate
| for district judge as not named on the ticket
| printed by the State committee. We under
took to correct this by printing new tickets,
suit CT this blunder will leave the poll so
| close as to render 1t probable that one or more
of the Tilden electors will have majority.
| There are other parishes where organized in
timidation was not so great as in the parishes
named, though in single election pre-
clncts it was effective. These parishes where
| formal protests have been filed, are Bien-
| vile, Franklin, Bosser, Caldwell, Grant,
Iberia, Lincoln, Richland and Sabine. How
| far the proof in these parishes will sustain
| the protests we cannot judge until the eYi-
dence Is heard before the returning board.
We are now collecting testimony as to the
| bulldozed parishes. 1t seems more like the
history of hell than of civilized and christian
| communities. The means adopted were al
most incredible, but were fearfully effective
| upon ignorant and superstitious people.
That you would have received, at
| fair election, large majority In
Louisiana no honest man can question; that
you did not receive majority is equally clear,
but that intimidation OF every kind and ma
ture provided against by Louisiana law did
enter into and control the election in more
| election polls than would change the result
and give you the vote, | believe as firmly as
that | write this. The difficulty of gathering
this testimony and putting it in legal form
has been very great, but | believe has been
fairly met. The whole case rests upon the
| action of the returning board. have care
fully observed them, and have formed high
opinion OF Governor Wells and Colonel An
derson. They are firm, jHdicious, and as far
as can Judge, thoroughly honest and con-
sclentlous. They are personally familiar with
the nature and degree OF intimidation In Lou
isiana; they can see that intimidation as or
ganized, was with view of throwing out the
Republican parishes rather than endangerin
the Democratic parishes. Our little party are
now dividing out the disputed parishes with
view to careful examination of every pa
per and detail. Many are impatient of de-
lay and some have gone home. We will
probably be able to keep about ten here. We
have incurred some liabilities for reporting,
printing, etc, but hope that the Republican
national committee will make this good, if
not, we must provide for it ourselves. We
are In good hope and spirits. Net wishing
the return in your favor unless it is clear
that it ought to be so, and not willing to be
cheated out of it, or to be bulldozed or ntim-
| idated, the truth Is palpable that you ought
| to have the vote of Louisiana, and we believe
| that you will have it by an honest and fair re-
turn according to the letter and spirit of the
law OF louisiana. Very truly yours,
To this General Hayes responded as fol-
lows:
COLUMBUS, O., November 81, 1878.
MI DEAR SRI am greatly obliged for your letter
of the twenty-third. You feel, l sure, as / do
about this whole business, fair election would
have given US about forty votes at the south
friends to defeat one outrage and fraud by another
MI Tden have the place By Violence, intimidation
and fraud rather than undertake to prevent 1t by
means that Will not bear the seyerest scrutiny. ap
pIecate the work done BIZ the Republicans who have
gone south; and am especially proud TO acknowledge
Democrats made mistake in sending SO many ex-
Republicans. New converts are pr0verbially bitter
trust you viii soon reach the end of the work and be
able to return in health and safety. Sincerely,
r. B. HAYES.
In the course of his further examination,
| the secretary said, in reference to Weber's
| testimony, that he had never heard of any
| plan to manipulate the vote of Louisiana, nor
was he at any time writing at desk in the
| customhouse; Weber must have seen some
| one else; the testimony of that witness as to
caucus, at which he was present, was
false and made out OF the whole cloth; he
was astonshed that so many Republicans
| stood up for the fight amid so much intimda-
| ton and so many threats on the part of the
| Democrats; he denied that the exhibition
| and statements concerning Eliza Pinkston
| were denied by her; he never asked Mrs.
| jerks to suppress any letter written by him;
| he never had a conversation with her except
in the presence Of others, and had never Of
fered her rewardEfor anything which she
| was to do.
Chairman Potter asked Secretary Sherman
whether he was not aware that Louis J.
Souer was appointed one of the local ap-
praisers in the New Orleans customhouse
after Kellogg had had testified before this
committee, and whether Henry G. Clarke,
formerly Governor Kellogg's private secre-
tary did not occupy place in the Office of
the commissioner internal revenue?
! Secretary Sherman, In reply, stated that
he was aware that Kellogg and Clarke had
testified before the committee. The secretary
was also Intercepted by E. L. Weber and
Captain Thomas II. jerks, in connection
1 - - z
Judge Shellabarger, counsel for Secretary
Sherman, having been mentioned with ref
erence to the last named. Shelarger, by per-
mission of the committee, explained that
having received a note from Mr. Vance, the
treasury appointment clerk, he merely went
to the department with Captain jerks and
introduced him to Mr.. Vance, and then left
Secretary Sherman said he would not hesi-
tate to appoint any man because he did his
duty.
General Butler-I think Souer was APP
pointed on the recommendation OF Senator
| Kellogg. Did not the appointment come