Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-06-26

| again until November lOtf. the thlrd da
after the election, when he came into ~
Office. The impression prevailed amonl
many Republicans that Anderson had hat
and still held friendly relations with tn
| members Of the Democratic State committee
When be came into my Office ] asked him .
to the election in East Feicana, ard he re
Piled by stating that had done hun injustice
by my course as supervisor, and that he fel
| aggTieved at the course taken by his part
friends, and that nc meant to act on tn
| fQua e. then said to him that his Ions
stay in New Orleans had been construed a
| q bid to one side OF both. but that | shculg
be glad to exculpate HIM after proper expla
nations. | inquired whether there was AM
protest fled from his parish, and he said he
| had sent MS returns by mail from BAt0T
| Rouge on reaching there. He has stated be-
fore this committee IN his testimony that
| asked him If any protest had accompanied
| the returns, and that be said mo" thai
| there vas 10 ground TO warrant II, and that
| Il ere was no occasion to make 1T. Here he
| and | disagree. Before that time he had not
| only complained to me of intimidation. but
| had recited how he bad been fred at, and
/ showed me buliet-hole which he hal in his
| coat. Soon after he came into my Office, ard
| while | was conversiDg with others, he took
| a sheet of paper and went out into the ante
room o. my Office where there wsresties KS
and quiet nnHibsE of visitors waiting te see
| me. He was gene about ten nlIfutee, and
| then returned with statementSXritteni 10 his
own hand, and signed with his<ewn name.
| ! read 1t aud SAW 1t was not IN the form as
required by law. | at once felt misgiVine
lest he might be accepting Democratic
over5ures. l asked him If he wanted to
swear TO 1t, and he indicated his
willingness to do SO, and [ suggested that we
should go to United States Commissioner
Woolfy, and there he could swear to it.
went with him, and he was sworn, and he
parted from me and / returned to my office.
Anderson says IN his statement before the
committee that / had paper drawn up in
legal form. | had nothing drawn up in le
gal form. All he swore to was Of his own
drafting. He says In his statement, also,
that Judge Campbell saw the second paper,
and was not satisfied with it. l am sorry to
say the second paper never existed. He
states also that Judge Campbell thereupon
framed a third paper, to which be never
swore. The third paper, which he says he
never swore to, he handed to me
across the railing IN my private office. all
drawn up and sworn to. After he had sworn
to the first paper l returned to my office, and
on my way back met Judge Campbell and
showed him the Anderson protest. Judge
Campbell offered to put it in legal form if
Anderson desired. About an hour afterward
Anderson came In and told him what Judge
Campbell had said, and he then left, but af
rate paper, signed aud sworn to by himself.
This paper was not framed in my Office, and
what its contents were | don't know Auder-
son was accompanied by Captain jerks and
some other person, whom did not know, and
he remarked that jerks was a little crooked,
and had better be sworn as soon as possible.
The protest was thercupon supplemented by
a short statement which was sworn to and
signed by jerks. There was no attempt on
my part to persuade Anderson to do anything
in violation of his duty. | was not the
proper custodian Of the document, but | re-
tanned it IN drawer of my desk until | had
leisure to examine it an hour later, winch
l did, and then sent it by messen-
ger to Judge Campbell. 1t was the
only protest | ever had in my hands
The messenger | sent it by | think
was deputy marshal, and he may have
handed 1t to Packard iu default of finding
Judge Campbell. At any rate, l learned
that Packard had seen it. Anderson swears
that the paper he signed on the tenth Of No
vember was the only paper he swore to. !
am not prepared to state whether there were
any blank spaces or not In it, as Anderson
testified. but observed no such blank spaces,
but thought the document was complete in
all particulars. Four days later Anderson
came into my Office and asked to see his pro-
test. l told him | had not then got it. His
request led me to suspect that he desired to
his pTOlcSb III Uil0 DGluCCIdliC lDGeTGSU.
He dlscredited my statement that had not
got it, and was very offensive in his manner
so much so that ordered him out OF my office.
His rage, as | interpreted it then, seemed
to be at the thought that he had made q
protest. | believe his first statement can be
proved to be as | have stated, and not as he
states, made when he was drunk. Anderson
AFT erwald came outside of my Office, and
to shoot me, so | heard, and |
twice saw him walking about In front Of my
Office. Fl threats were repeated to me sew
eral times, and | had some difficulty 10 re-
my over Jealous partIsans IN taking |
him in hand. Weber has been represented |
as having said to Sherman that Anderson |
and himself had incurred the enmity of every |
Republican in the State on account of their |
action. | simply wish to say that Weber |
never stood in such disfavor. / never con- |
ferred with Weber one moment in regard to |
the protest. That concludes nv acquaint- |
ance with Anderson until July, 1877, when l |
had a very important interview with him.
Ques.-Give US the substance of any other |
you had with Anderson at that |
time. Ans.-Early In Jolly, 1877, two or |
three days after my reaching Washington, |
Anderson accosted ne in front of Wilard's |
hotel, aud said that, having seen my arrival |
he had run down from Phia-
delphia to see me. l was surprised |
both at his friendly manner and also at
He said in effect that | had been harshly
treated by the administration, that Stanley
Mathews had instIgated the movement, and |
that he Anderson had Stanley Mathews in
a tight fix. He then drew a package from
his pocket and read three letters and one
telegram from Mathews to him. The terms
of the communication impressed me as being
OF a seriously compromising character. Ander
son said that one of the letters was a copy,
but he could prove the receipt of the original.
After reading these letters, and leaving GER
tain documents in his pocket unread, he went
behind them and stated that in New Orleans
Senator Sherman had made to him and to
Weber certain oral promises in case they
made certain statements of intimidation
and fraud IN the 1876 election. He then
opened a document which he said was origin
al and In Senator Mathews handwriting,
setting forth an undue influence by Packard
and Kellogg against himself and one or two
others. Among his papers was the Anderson
Weber agreementj at least, so | believe. On
reaching my name. during, the reading. hs
faltered, and | said, Anderson, you know
that is false, " and he said, Eyes, that is I'M
true, | admit" | told him l bad never ex-
changed q word with Weber as to his pro-
test, but interposed no further objection.
Then Anderson proceeded to relate that Just |
bef,re Sherman left New Orleans fer Wash
irgton, he and Weber called on the senator
reduced to writing, and that Sherman had |
reduced them to writing; that he (Anderson) |
had taken charge OF the letter, and Weber
had advised him to commit the letter to him
Weber,, as he (Anderson) was prone to go |
on sprees, and that Weber did carry 1t in the
inside pocket of his coat, and that when lac
was murdered the letter was on his person.
Anderson appeared to rely more upon what
he had received from Mathews than on what |
he protested to have received from Sherman,
as impayting a certainty of performance
" hich he could compel. He said that |
when used in connection with Mathe VS. let
ter, it could be made troublesome foe Sher-
man; therefore. since that, | have stated that /
if Sherman had written Weber or Anderson
a letter, it was 10 appreciation of the risks
they had run, and because their work was
done at a time when it was important, and
he might possibly have yielded to their re-
quest for patronage out of the State of Louisi
ana. Weber's protest bears date of the four
tenth; Anderson's bears date of the tenth.
| have expressed the conviction 10 my friends
that Mathews had fully enmeshed himself, |
as ms letter of May 25th seemed to me TO