Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1878-08-01

into the Treasury. Bell, another
County Judge in d contested count,
was made a timber agent. Hum
phrevs one of the electors, was made
Collector of Pensacola. TIE MS,
Stearns' Secretary, wis put into
the Treasury. Maxwell, Repub
iican detective, was made Lieu
tenant in the army. Phelps went
to Paris with Mccormick. Var
mum, 6be of Stearns' Cabinet. be
came a Receiver of the Land Office,
where Taylor. one of the clerks of
the County Courts, found haven
also. In short, wherever there
was a fraud places were found for
those Connected with it,
2. In Louisiana the election sub.
stantiaily depended upon the par
ties of East and West Feliciana.-
No protest by the precinct officers
accompanied their returns. The
Republican managers claimed tha'
where it would have been danger
GUS on the spot to make protest
they shonld be received after the
returns were sent up. This sug-
gestien, Of course, opened the way
FOR every form of fraud. In those
two parishes Anderson and Weber.
two Custom House clerks, were
@upervisors of registration: They
both mado protests. 1t is said now
that these men are worthless liars,
hT1f Of
ment in the canvass of the votes
the trusted agents of tbs Re publ
Can party in that work, and upon
them stood the exclusion Of those
PARISHES. Now please rake notice
how the evidences befdre the com
mittee corroborates Anderson's s
confession, particularly that Of
Campbell, the District Attorney,
brought by Secretary Sherman ali
tie way from Dakota to contradict
Anderson. According to Camp
bells statement Anderson prepared
paper of protest. Whether he
did it voluntary, as Pitkin says, or
at tho request of Pitkin, as Andet-
son says; Is Of TO Consequence
Any way the protest was prepared
by Anderson, and the last known
of it was sent hy Pltkin to Mr..
Conkiing. But Campbell declared
before the committee that this pre-
text was wholly worthless, and
contained no statement of facts Of
any Value upon which to exclude
the vote of the parish. After he
had given this opinion Pitkin de
sired Campbell to prepare a pro
test that would be of some use, and
he says he prepared one proper in
fol m, leaving spaces to be filled up
with the essential averments Of
facts, and later went to Pitkln's Of
fee to take Andels sons verificatior
to this protest, and found him in
high dispute about its terms and
unwilling to verify 1t, shd Camp
bell does not recolle ct whether An
derson ever verified it. But wherh
er verified 6r only signed, it was,
when Anderson delivered it, incom
plete ard wanting in the essentla!
averments upon which to exclude
the vote of the parish.
After the second protest was
signed and given to Pitkih all agree
that Anderson tried to recall it.
Pitkin refused to give it up and
told Campbell. it was ihh safe hands.
Campbell tells the committee that
Anderson wanted to recall it be-
caus" he was not satisfied with the
pledges of security and reward which
he bad received, and further, that
Anderson Gomp,aified that it had
been forged by additions made to ii
without his authority, and this pro
test shows npon its face it is said
such additions in IFS most essential
features. The same thing is repof
ted lis appearing when the Weber
protest was brought before the sub
committee at New Orleans. Sc
that, exclusive of Anderson's les
timony, it appears, b Mr.. Sher-
mans own witness, that there were
no regular protest for these parish
es that. t!!e protests were manu-
tactured, and that, they were itianf,.
featured without the assent, III cs-
sential particulars, of the only par
ties entitled to make them, anC
Anderson has since confessed tha
there was no grornd ter trailing
protests, and SO Don Weber tolo
Mrs. jerks and her brother, ano
nothing appears to the. contrary.
+ 4. As regards the Sherman let
ter Mrs. jerks is brought forwaro
to acquiU the Secretary, and how
does che acquit hina BY declaring
that everything except the writing
of the letter with which he has beer
charged is true THAT he assnreo
and promised Anderson and Weber
as claimed, that lie wanted them t,
stand firm, and promised them pro
, lection and reward; that, not salts
fed With his oral promises, AEdtr-
SON wanted written assurance, ant
that, having prpared letter 10 tina
| end, he sent it bv Weber, who CAV