The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1878-11-01
A DIABOEICAL PLOT
The Last Act of the Farce Known
rs the Potter Inquiry
Disclosure of Rascality that Will Startle
the Nation.
Special to Cincinnati Gazette I

licans are at last in possession of the
principal facts connected with the
working up of the forged Democratic
and perjured testimony, upon which
the Potter resolution was based. An
dersou, the notorious witness, has at
last pre- pal ed a written statement, and
furnished corroborating evidence to
sustain it. showing how agents for Til
den from New York and this city went
to work to manufacture a basis upon
which to set up the Potter investiga
ton. Fora long time the Republicans
WHO were approached here declined 70
have anything to do with the matter.
as thev did not believe Anderson could
make any statements which would
command the least confidence, bnt
finally they were induced to look into
his statement and examine his proofs,
and the result has been that
COMPLETE EXPOSURE
awaits most of those VINO were active
as Tilden'5 agents in making up tire
Potter Investigate N. The story wilt
disgust a good many Democrats in the
House, who were deliberately deceived
in regard to the real character of the
documents which were exhibited to
them as proofs that the case against
Secretary Sherman and the President
could be made out at once, if the Dem
ocrats wauld pass a resolution of in
quiry. It cen now be proved that a
Sherman letter was forged aDd brought
here by Weber, brother of the mur
dered Supervisor. 1t was photo
graphed here, and the copies were to
be used SO as to avoid being technically
guilty of circulating a forgery, since
these were only photographs. After
these were taken, experts examined
them, and compared them with Secre-
tary Sherman's handwriting, and
agreed that it would never do to try to
pass the letter as a genuine one. IL
was next decided to introduce testi-
mony to the effect that Dan Weber's
wife had
DESTROYED THE ORIGINAL,
but that the copy which Anderson had
made here, and which he afterward
produced. was a true copy Either be
cause Mrs. Weber could not be pre-
vailed upon to swear to this story or
because some other link in the man
ufactured story could not be supplied.
this line of perjury was dropped, and
it was finally agreed that Tom Weber
should swear 70 the story that he
found the Sherman letter in box with
bis deceased brothers papers. and de-
stroyed it without even mentioning his
discovery to any member of the family.
Proof of the forging IF
THE EwEBKR-ANDERsoN AGREEMENT
is also available, and, in short, the
whole diabolical plot by whi:h the
Potter investigation was worked up
and forced upon the Democrats of the,
House is now known to the Republican
and will doubtless be established 10 the
full sstifaction of the country. as
soon as the Senate committee charged
with the inquiry into charges against
Senator Mathews meets 1t is under
stood that Anderson will then appear
and free himself form the load of
falsehood he took upon himself in the
Potter committee. Fhe payments Cf
money to Anderson for preparing res
timony, and the persons who paid it.
are known. The part taken by
COL. PELToY. TILDKN's NEPHEW,
in working up the case, and forcing it
through the House, are also now
known. The persons who took part
in manufacturing the oral testimony
for several witnesses before the com
mittee are also known, and some of
these will probably be soon proceeded
against criminally for subornation of
perjury. Some of the Democrats in
volved in these transactions have
known for some weeks that the danger
of the Republicans obtaining a cine to
their crooked transactions was very
great, and their efforts to avert this
trouble have been untiring. The evi
dence of their attempt tc prevent
exposure will be about as interesting,
and at the same time as convincing of
guilt as any of the rest.
WHAT THE PoTTERs WILL DO.
A gentleman who is regarded one as
of the managing men in the Potter in
vestigaticn, and vho has recently re-
turned from a visit to New York, I!
where he has consulted with those |
who have conducted the investigation
thus far, expresses the opinion that |
the committee will hold no further |
sessions for taking testimony. The
cipher dispatches are evidently a sub |
ject of no little interest to Potter and |
his associates, and the expected in
yestigation of thRt entire subject will /
doubtless be conducted by q Senate
committee. If the Democrats examine |
any other witnesses, it is expected
Samuel j. Tiiden will be among them |
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