Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-06-07

nor have I any TO make" Since that
card was printed, Anderson has been
freeing his mind to a Herald reporter.
He is Of the opinion that "this whole
thing has been botched,n a state
ment which will undoubtedly pain Mr..
Clarkson n Potter very much. Like
the angry gentleman from Florida who
turned States evidence, Mr.. Anderson
has lost patience with both parties. He
thinks that Potter's resolution misrep-
resented him [Anderson and he de-
clares that he will not sit still while he
is publicly charged with conniving at
election frauds. As for the Republic
ans, who berate his treachery, Ander-
son cries: "Wby did not they remem-
ber me when | needed helpP" There
it is, again. Anderson, like all the rest,
claims that he has not been well treated
by the Republicans, and, therefore, he
will tell everything. But what has he
to tellP In his card to the Times he de-
clares that he has made no confession
and has none to make What he does
now affirm is that Webber signed pro-
test attached to the West Feliciana re-
turns, being "not firm in the faith;
and that his [Anderson's1 signature was
secured to blank sheet of paper, which
was afterward filled out with a sweep
ing protest, and attached to the East
Feliciana returns. Anderson says that
he knew that these protests would be
used to throw out the returns of both
parishes, but he did not interfere,
though once he did make up his mind
to denounce the proceeding. And An
derson, at this point, plaintively says;
"Dan Webber and were both weak, p"
or, as he otherwise puts it; Webber
and both needed backbone
Evidently, they needed something
else than backbone if Anderson's story
is to hang together. He adds: "We
wanted written guarantees that we
should be cared for if we allowed this
crookedness to go unrebuked." Web
Der being dead, his honest friend
charges that he (Webber) signed one
protest. But the virtuous Anderson,
being alive and liable to punishment
and disgrace, will not admit that he
signed false protest; but he did sign
a blank sheet of paper which some
wicked persons, to the deponent un-
known, subsequently filled up with the
desired protest, falsely alleging intimi-
dation at the polls in East Feliciana.
1t is difficult to conceive of more
abused man than Mr.. James f. Ander.
son, who has made no confession and
has none to make.
Mr.. Anderson's griefs were brought
before the Congressional Committee
which visited Louisiana after the Pres
idential election of 1876. One Whitney
testified that Anderson had complained
that 1.-THE Republican party had been
ungrateful to him.; that he thought he
was entitled to reward of money or Of
flee, and that "he stated that he de-
sired some influence brought to bear on
the Democratic party to secure him a
position or to secure him money"
Perhaps that influence was obtained; at
any rate, Anderson is now Mr.. Clarkson
Potter's mainstay in the Louisiana case,
although, since the Potter resolution is
before the country, the unhappy Super
visor of East Feliciana thinks that 1.-THE
whole thing has been botched." The
celebrated Maj. Burke testified before
the Louisiana committee that Anderson
admitted that he signed the affidavit,
or protest of intimidation, but that he
was under the influence of liquor at the
time, "and could prove it." Burke also
swore that Anderson agreed to sell out
all his information to the Democrats
for $4,000. This is Mr.. Potter's chief
witness in the case which he brings
against Secretary Sherman and in the
alleged Louisiana Frauds Y. Times.