Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-04-26
JUDGE McL1N's STATEMENT.
He Thought a Democratic Triumph
Would be a Disaster.
Powerful Influences Swayed
His Judgment.
McLIN AND DENNIS TELL THE
WHOLE BUSINESS.

published; the first portion is devote
to furnishing an excuse for MS Gem.
ing inconsistency in first covering and
then revealing the Florida election
frauds. He said he believed that a
Democratic triumph would be a ma
tiopal disaster in 1877, and that he
would give the benefit of the doubt to
the Republicans, even to the extent of
straining a point; that he did not con
slider himself a judge, but as a rarti-
san, he now sees that powerful inhu
ences swayed his judgment and per-
verted his moral sense. He was sur
rounded by Northern partisans, who
urged on him the necessity OF the Re-
publicans carrying Florida. and who
pictured the danger to h negroes II
Tilden triumphed. He had also re-
ceived daily kilograms insisting on his
saving the country. b Chairman
of the National Committee, Zachary
Chandler, and the man who was the
nearest personal friend of Hayes,
stanley Matthews, urged him to do his
Republican duty. IN OF troops
w1re freely given Governor Noyes, OF
Ohio, who was present, and was under
stood to speak with authority from
HAYES. The influence of these men,
uOu6T I16 utiiStdt CCSg ~ nv ca
element throughout the country may
have led hun to err. and especially
Moves promise that Hayes would re.
ward him. His ardor was now cooled
by time, and by the reflection that the
President had betrayed and merciless
lv destroyed the Republican party,
AMI crushed those who did so much
for his election. He was now con
WINGED that political expediency and
not calm Judgment ruled the hour.
The statement concludes with these
words: Whatever may be the opin-
ion of men in regard To my motives, |
give them facts, and leave my motives
to a higher tribunal.
(Sivned) SAMUEL B. MCLIN."
The statement wa signed and sworn
to before the Clerk Of thomas county,
Georgia.
Mr.. Dennis arrived here yesterday,
and be neither admits nor denies the
rumor of his confession, but intiinates
that the statements are true.
1t is stated. regarding the Florida
cOnfe>sinns, that after the President
nominated McLin. and the nomination
was rtje ,ted. that McLin came againt to
to the President, who informed hun
that he could do nothing for him; that
tn send in his name for any position
under the Government would only be
inviting defeat. Both Senators from
Florida, and Senator Spencer. fought
McLin's nomination while IL was before
the Senate. Dennis was made internal
Revenue Agent for Alachua county
district, Notwithstanding the fact that
a nun, her of indictments we're pend
ing against him in connection with the
frauds of Archer District and else
where. The office of Revenue Agent
was not large enough to satisfy Dennis
for the work he had done, and he there
fore turned against the Administration.
There il much speculation as to the
parties who procured the admission OF
iha fraud. some persons positively as
sorting that il was the friends of TildAn,
while others name prominent Repnbli-
cans. disaffected toward President
HAYES.
The Senate to-day passed bills giving
United states Courts in Utah and other
Territories exclusive jurisdiction of
divorce cases which are now so fraudu
lently treated by many Utah Courts,
and annulling the act OF the legislature
OF New Mexico by which special privi-
leges OF schools, ETC.. we're granted tn
the Society of Jesuit Fathers. These
measures are all Senate bills. and there
fore have yet to be passed. by the
House.
Ex.Judye Morton Ttlden's Engin.
eer-MOrGOn and McLin suffer
Political Hmgratttude-rhe story
Thought to be sensational.
New YORK, April %.
The Times, i'm an editorial, thus sum
marizes q Florida dispatch Ex Judge
Morton, once q special agent OF the
Postoffice Department. and y Conkling
emissary to the Virginia Republican
Convention in 1875, appears 10 have
been the engineer of the Tilden mine
in Florida. Morton helped VIM. E.
Chandler to supervise the count of the
Electoral vote in Florida, but Morton
was ousted from his place by an I'M
grateful Administration, and C0nklin G
proiessed himself to he without inhn-
ence enough to find him another; so,
being without money or friends, And
despairing of being able to earn an
honest living, Morton fell into the
hands of Tilden and David Dudley
| Field, He was readily hired to go &c
| Florida, and prove thugs to be- black
which he had previously declared to
be white. In this. however, he was
partly aided by ex.Secretarv of State
McLin, who had also suffered from
political ingratitude. Bet them
they have got out q confession whose
worthlessness, as evidence, is sppar'
ent, as its absolute irreIevancy to any
question which can now be raised af.
fecting the title of President Hayes.
The Worlds Washington CORE
spondent reports WIN. E Chandler a.
saying: Il did not believe that Dennis
made any statement or confession
| Perhaps McLin did. All there is tc
say about Archer District and Alachus
county has been published. There is
| nothing new in Leon and COluinbis
counties. The whole story ia q sensA-
ton. I have always claimed that
Hayes honestly carried Florida. l be
lievs IL; but in Jas it shall tnrn OF
that McLin has been running crooked,
1t would only be necessary 10 pass
resolution through both Houses de.
Fclaring Tilden lawfully elected, and ]
believe Hayes would have. his baggage
checked for Fremont before Tildeu
could leave Graminercy Park. The
Florida delegation In Congress have n 9
knowledge OF the confessions, except
the I'M that they are coming.
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