The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-06-12

q nd without telling him what they were. he
pointed I'm succession to three signatures and
SAND Is that sS%l siT: thsy are forveries
said the amazed and affrighted witness, who
was fearful that some of Anderson's terrible
budget of letters had been fastened on him or
that it was sought TO do so. Having got the
witness TO Identify and verify the foTgerieS by
putting his own name opposite the forgeries,
Mr.. Mac Mahon showed that the forgertes were
on the declaration of the votes declared au-
theatic and binding by the electoral commits
and vice president of the United States. The
infamous Kellogg's jurat as governor attests
that this December 18th meeting was the meet
ing of the 9Th of December, the day required
ey law, and that all the cleo ors being present
did vote as each OF them had personally sub
scrioed that he did. The body of the three
declarations declares all the electors present,
and that the date of their meeting is the 9th,
as required by law, and that each of them in
the presence of all of them duly voted and
attests his vote by his signature as appended.
This was the revelation 81 Thursday. 1t was
as much a surprise TO every republican on
and every democrat on the committee as IL
was to the amazed Levissee. He actually did
not know till Thursday, June 6, 1873, that that
secret meeting had been held December %,
1876, with him left out, end that his only vote
and signature had gone for nothing. while the
forgery of his vote on three declarations had
been Solemnly declare! to be the vote which
elected the president and vice president by
the electoral commission. The evidence to
fix the fact of the secret meeting comes from
the event OF the forgery OF IevlsSee'S name on
the papers: il also comes from the letters of
Congressman Darrail, of Louisiana, to Ander-
son, which are in the possession of the COM
mittee. The date of the meeting, December
%, 1876, is fixed by the fact that the declara-
ton which went TO the state department by
mail bears the New Orleans post mark of
December 90 1876. IL is now plain
why the republican managers were so siren u
Gus that the electoral commission should not
go behind the returns. 1t is now plain why
George f. Hoar, of that commission, did not
fulfill his declaration to A. :. Hewitt, that he
would go ben nd the 'eturns. 1t Is now plain
why all the eight commissioners were unit
every time against going behind the returns.
The iawleSs secret meeting of December 70,
1876, i'm New Orleans, was known. The tsct of
the forgery of LevSSee's name-and the names
of three other electors reported TO have
been forged, toO-waS known An instant S
testimony would have shown the forgery then
as IL did yesterday. TDat forgery shown would
have rendered the Louisiana return impossi-
[ ole of reception and of bieng counted The
presidency in that event would not have been
awarded TO Hayes, and the house of Tepresen-
tativeS of the Forty-fourth congress, voting by
states would have elected Tilden.
This chapter of crime touches the title of
Hayes, for the very men on the electoral
commission who voted for Hayes knew that
every vote they cast was the exaltation
of forgery and perjury over truth and JUS
tice. Under such circumstances democrats
can well afford to permit Hayes title to rest
on the method by which it was procured.