Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-06-06
DAILY SENTINEL.


has GTIAtEI " DIUlUAAAh
out the country. The telegraph mas MOI
furnished the SENTINEL a fair synopsis Of
a There can 10 no doubt that John
sherman and Stanley Matthews, acting for
Hayes, caused Tilden 70 be cheated out Of
the vote Louisiana. Anderson says the
election in the parishes thrown cut was as
peaceful as in any part Of the country.
There was absolutely no semblance OF no
lence on election day. Two days before
Anderson took the stand before the Potter
Committee. Sherman and his attorney
tried to catrap him, got him in q room in
Washington and proceeded to cross-exam-
inc him, hoping to break down his testi-
mony in some important particular. His
statement was taken down and given in
biased form to the public press. Anderson
stood the test well, but his statement Of
tho case at that time did not include all
that he has since sworn to. Following is
the substance Of what was extracted in the
Sherman interview. 1t is an interesting
narrative, giving a fair insight Of the
great fraud by which Hayes succeeded to
the Presidency:
III you had, as is charged, any trans
action with Secretary Sherman, what was
its date 2"
1.-THE protest to the vote Of East Felici-
ana il dated November 10; that OF West
Feliciana November IA, / believe. Mr..
sherman reached New Orleans about the
18th Of the month. Things were then in a
very critical condition. Dan Weber, who
was supervisor Of elections in West Felici-
ana, had signed bis protest, but ] had not.
From what l heard at the time / felt sure
that Dan was acting in the line OF duty by
putting his name to the protest, because in
one part Of the parish, down in the river
region, there was a small body Of disor-
derby roughs, who interfered with the
negroes from pure c~ussedness. There was
not much politics about it. Dan was not
very firm in the faith, however. He had
his doubts whether the protest should be
made to cover SO much, and l made up my
mind that I did not propose to testify Off
cially to intimidation when there was no
sign Of ii on election day. The thing had
all been set up beforehand, but | had no
right to swear that any voters were inter-
fered with unless | knew Of actual cases Of
violence on election day. There were
nonc. The election was as peaceful as any
in the country. SO | refused to sign. 1t
was a very few days after this, as the dates
show, when Sherman arrived in New Or
leans. Dan Webber and ! were both weak,
and It was vital that onr parishes should be
thrown out. told you months ago OF the
way my signature was obtained to a blank
sheet Of paper, and how that was after
ward filled III without my knowledge with
a most s~weeping protest, accompanied by a
forged jurat. That was a fraud, and / had
made up my mind to denounce it. just
then the visiting statesmen came on the
field. Webber and ! both needed back
bone. There is no use in telling q great
long story now, but we were written to by
Secretary Sherman. We wanted written
guarantees that we should be cared for il
we allowed this crooke6ness to go unro-
buked, so that the Returning Board and
the Republican party could profit by the
wrong.'
did the Secretary writc to each Of
your
mo; tho letter was written to rs joint
". 1t did not come through the mail. II
was directed to d. A. Weber and James
Il. Anderson. The stories about there be.
ing two letters are false. 1t was transmit
ted to us through a third party"
How did the letter read ?1
s Well, it was one of those shrewd things
which nobody but a shrewd politician
would devise. He simply said that W,
should be literally cared for If WI stoo{
Arm"
Don't you suppose that when Mr.
Sherman is placed on the stand ne eau
laugh ut that letter and say that the ONLY
object Of it was to let YOU know that tn,
leaders of the Republican party woult
stand by you i you performed YOU
duty?"
ssYes, / realize the force Of that, but /
happens that the vital point in this matter
concerns the fact whether Sherman knew
when he wrote that letter, that Webbel
had his doubts about how far his dut,
would stretch, and that / was on the poin'
Of ~denouncing the forgery Of which | hat
been made the victim"
And you think that you can prove tia
he was fully aware Of all these facts ant
meant his letter 70 be a guarantee that yol
should be provided for If you consented /,
shut your eyes and hold your tongue?"
THAT is exactly what we expected Il
do. Suppose that Lawrence t~estifies tina
he informed Sherman of the way thing
stood IN the Feliciana parishes, and sup
pose that Pitkin ~testiies that Sherman un-
dersto0d the situation exactly, and sup.
pose Whitney t~estifies more fully than HI
did before the Morrison committee, tina
one day at the st. Charles Hotel I display,
cd an envelope which contained the Sher
man letter and said: I've got enough
here to burst the whole thing, then wller.
will Sherman be
what ever became Of that letter n
II gave it to Dan Weber, and l don
know exactly what he did with it. You re
member he was murdered at st. Francis
willie very shortly afterward. There la.
always been a peculiar mystery hanging
about his murder. | have heard tina
the Democrats claim to have a photo
graphic copy Of that letter, but / can,
state whether it is true or not. You alst
remember when we called on Mrs. Jenk.
last winter that she intimated that the
original letter was safe and sound in .
place where 1t could be easily reached
That may be true; but the great impor,
lance Of the investigation, so far as Sher.
man is concerned, will consist in proving,
not that such a letter was written, and moi
that 1t contained such and such words, but
that he knew when he addressed il to us
that We were being bribed to submit to for-
geries."
do you think Pitkin will testify ~
81 know he will"
"4And you have no doubts YOU can make
the matter so clear that the country will
understand if2v