The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1878-07-19

'lectOrs, was made collector Of Pensacola. |
Icons, Stearns' secretary, was put into the
Maxwell, republican detective,
vas made lieutenant in the army. Phelps
vent to Paris with MCormick Varnum,
,ne of Stearns' cabinet, became receiver
N the land Office, where Taylor one of the
clerks of the county court, found haven
also. In short, wherever there was fraud
places were found for those connected
with it.
3. In Louisiana the election substantial.
Iy depended upon the parishes of East and
West Feiciana. No protest by the precinct
officers accompanied their returns. The re.
publican managers claimed nat where it |
would have been dangerous on the spot to |
make protests they should be received after I
the returns were sent up. This suggestion,
of course, opened the way for every form of |
fraud. In those two parishes Anderson and |
Weber, two custom house clerks, were super
visors of registration. They both made pro-
tests in New Orleans, or parts of protests |
1t Is said now that these men are worthless
liars, but they were. at the critical moment
in the canvass of the votes the trusted agents |
of the republican party in that work, and |
upon them stood the exclusion of those par.
ishes. Now please take notice how the evil
dence before the committee cOrroborates An
derson's confession, particularly that of
Campbell, the district attorney, brought bv
Secretary Sherman all the way from Dakota
to contradict Anderson. According to
Campbel's statement Anderson prepared
paper for protest. Whether he did it voun-
tarily, as Pitkn says, or at the request of
Pitkin, as Anderson says, is of ne conse-
quence Any way the protest was prepared
by Anderson, and the last known of it was
sent by Pitkin to Conkling. But Campbell
declared before the committee that this pro.
test was wholly worthless ard contained no
statement of facts of any value upon which
to exclude the vote of the parish After he
had given this opinion Pitkin desired Cimr-
bell to prepare protest that would be OF
some use, and he says he prepared one in
due form, leaving spaces 10 he Hlled up with
the essential averments of facts, and later
went to Pitkin's office to take Anderson's
verifcation to this protest and found him in
high dispute about its terms and unwilling
to verify it, and Campbell does not recollect
whether Anderson ever verified it. Bu'
whether verified or only signed, it was, when
Andersen delivered it, incomplete and want
ing in the essential laverments upon which to
exclude the vote of the parish.
After the second protest was signed and
given to Ptkin all agree that Anderson tried
to recall it. Pitkin refused to give it up and
told Campbell it was in safe hands. Campbell
tells the committee that Anderson wanted
to recall it because he was not satisfied with
the pledges of security and reward which he
had received, and further that Anderson
complained that it had been forged by addi-
tions made to it WITHOUT his authority, and
this protest shows upon its face, it is saiu,
such addition to its most essential features
The same thing is reported as appearing
when the Weber protest was brought before
the sub committee at New Orleans. So thet,
exclusive of Anderson testimony, it appears
by Mr. Shermans own witness that there
was no regular protests for these parishes
that the protests were manufactured without
the assent, in essential particulars, of the
only parties entitled to make them, and An
derson has since confessed that there was ne
ground for making protests, and so Dor
Weber told Mrs. jerks and her brother
and nothing appears TO the contrary.
1t is insisted that +. l.. Weber is a LA
because he now admits the swindle about hi
parish and yet wrote the letter he did jus
before Packard's government fell. That let
ter is really corroboration of his presen
story. 1t is just the letter which reckles
and excited man, believing some rumO
about his brothers death which he had jus
heard and anxious to sustain the PackarC
government, would write to fire the northern
heart. How utterly and preposterousl!
groundless and false it was he in the light o
better information admits, He was no
driven out Don Weber's family was no
driven out. They did not sacrifice thei
property, and they have remained there un
disturbed until this day, although the Mich
oll's government was established, whicl
they 50 much pretended to dread. That let
ter in the light of subsequent facts is an il
lustration of the utter falseness of the Who'll
bulldozing pretcnse.
West Feliciana had twelve white peopl
in it republicans, and among those twelv
the Office rotated, and nothing could be nor
profitable than for them to cry out year a
ter year against the danger of democratic as
cendancy. II now appears that the DANCE
to which Anderson and Weber were expose
was that of losing their offices if the demo
Gratis came in.
| 4. As regards the Sherman letter Mr.
jerks is brought forward to acquit the SCI
retary, and how does she acquit him ? /
declaring that everything except the writlr
of the letter with which has been charged
), true and that he assured and promised A
I derson and Weber, as claimed, that
i wanted them to stand firm, and promis
: them protection and reward that, not sati
fed with his oral promise, Anderson want
written assurance and that, having preps
I, ed letter to that end, he sent it by Web,
y who gave it to her to carry in. Having re
d it, she says she conceived that they ought
IS be satisfied with the oral assurance of so d
o tinguished representative of the republic
" party, and thereupon to quiet them, she d
e tated, with the hel p of a republican oflic
II in New Orleans, a reply which should pa
V off As Shermans. No one who ever read Il
'' reply would believe that it was her prodl
e tion. But even if it were. it still renal
J. that all the assurance of aid and comf'
> which Mr.. Sherman is charged with havi
l. given to the the conspiracy are substantial
by this woman, brought forward to acq
ut Sherman of this letter, which, after all
la only one item of evidence to sustain the {
er of his action to which she has testified.