The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1878-06-12
Will Mr. Sherman Plead a Forgery

Will MIR. Sherman Plead a Forgery
The .oItgivings Of the Treasury
Department and of the friends ofA1r.
Sherman indicate that he intends to
'Iplead before Mr.. Potter's Com mittee
that he never wrote any letter of in
ducement or encouragement to An
derson orisWeber, and that if any
: such letter is produced pnrporting to
have been writtea,or sighued by him
it will prove to be "a forgery. The
i allegation made .yaa. Mr. Potter
againstbtM Mr. Sherman is SO grave,
and this plea of'forgery1will so put
in peril the future public and private
career Of Mr.. Sherman if it shoula
be adjuaqgeeda u, against aiAnvs bin BY the
country, that ttswyge give give elsewhere this
mo morning mr. The very ,elear. exposition Of
the Louisiana .is !! election a laW which
was made made By MI irl;,;,C arpenter, 7before
thse9 Electoral y! estqrila GIqqmmljisson.I The
Tiilbdle epl electors from, from % Louisiana ,
g claimed d9as y it IT, will be seen, that the
State .tl Retp nFng Board ses had no au-
li tIh1orrity 70 exclude psla. tbs returns from
sanya precinct ,}tpl.n unless less certain, coma
plants against that precinct, formal
~, verified ,appd . :attested, were at-
ltacheedd BY wax OF some other adhe.
siv 'e' substance t.sta to the returns. The
Democrats claim \ , that the returns
from ron the Felicianas when they cleft
the bends bends Of the commissioners and
supervisors, atwenttJys7tfour hoprs after
the ts, election IL had no no. spqcch complaints
Lor protests attached. and that the
complaints BY reason ,.as on Of which the
tFelicigalnas we're exclude'l ,by the Re-
turning + Beard !, were made after the
tw'ertyffopr u hours. had expired, and
were fssaaudduullsently, made, BY esupervi-
sor Anderson and Weber, a Mr. Sher-
man.. in his letter to- Mo- Potter, has
denied tbatlle induced or encouraged
the protests. made aby those two SUI
peryisort.ss, Iiior had q anything to do
with them; and he is understood now
TO declare that if any letter to the
contrary puRporting to be from him
| has ever been in existence twas h
forgery. His plea is, in effect, for.
gerry: Upon that he proposes to
stand OF, fal.ae And at.liss point An
,'erson comes upon the stage, of
whom I'VE have recently heard SO
"a och. Weber is dead. He. sudden.
~ disappeared soon after the cof1-
plants, were made respecting the
Fe.icianas.e 1.-The was murdered the
motive,rof o the murderers. has not
been clearly proved. AT" any rate
his his. wife turned up Az, tie. Treasury
seeking an office. On her first appli'
cation, as the gossip goes and I'VE
give it., as gossip merels) she was
repulsed. but she came back a second
time presenting what she, pretended
was,a a, letter to4her deadlJ husband
from Mr.. Sherman promising him
the protection or good yill,of ME.!
Hayessafter, 4th of. March. She
was finally appointed. to aTreasury
clerkship,o but awas a subsequently,
dropped from, the rolls Where the
original of this pretended, letter is
NOW, no one has yet ,appcaredIto de-
clare. y Rumorlsays thatphotograph.
lie. copies ofiit are. In existence. - If
Mr.. Sherman should plead asforgery,
then the Observation-Disclosures and
Mrs. Weber will become. extremely
important, ia-conjunction particular
with the undodbted . fact that both
we're appointed to Office BY the pres
lent Administration. Mr., Sherman
by fiisanote to Mr.. Potter snbstan:.
|tially charges the latter that'he Has
relied upon letter which lis a'forge-'
~, and Mr.. Sherman distinctly inti-
mates chat those who have exploited
this letter knew IL was az forgery.,
The Democrats in the House assert
that this Feliciana affair iss a fair
type Of the Whole Louisiana business,
and Of the manner in which protests
were panpfacted under, which that
board !, got jurisdiction .tto.gIseax exclude
!. Tilden ballots, and d that hat such dishon-,
est a and unlawful protests 'sas were in
d lu Or encouraged c'n d9 hy tbs Hayes
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