The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-07-04

joint note to Sherman, OF which Anderson
produced a copy, and gave 1t to her to
deliver. She took this to the parlor
occupied by the visiting statesmen and
there dictated this pretended Sherman
letter at a side desk. She would not tell
who took it from her dictation. After it
was finished she put it in an envelope and
took it back to Weber. She never delivered
the Anderson-Webe note to any one. Her
testimony was full of lively points, but such
as do not bear directly upon the charges
which the Potter resolution contain.
Mrs. jerks was again on the stand on
June "a. She repeated her performance of
Saturday for about two hours, much to the
general amusement, but not to the increase
of general knowledge in regard to the Sher-
man letter. She continued to maintain that
she dictated the whole of the Sherman
letter, though she refused to say who she
dictated it to, or to give any special details
of her work. She declared that Secretary
Sherman was not in any sense a party to it,
and that she delivered it after it was com.
pleted to Weber and Anderson. There was
again a great mount of valueless question
ing and answering.
After recess Mr.. Mcmahon called General
Boynton, of the Cincinnati Gazette, to ask
about the report that he had been to the
White House to make inquiries about the
appointment of Anderson at the time it was
made, and had conversed with the Presi-
dent on the subject. The fact was de-
veloped that in a ride with the President,
extending over several hours, the first week
in last June, about two or three minutes
conversation took place IN regard to
the matter. The President stated the
appointment was made on account
Of the good service Anderson
had rendered as a Republican. The
charges Of the press that he had been ap-
pointed on account of some improper manip-
ulation of the vote were referred to, and
the President neither affirmed nor denied,
but said he thought Anderson would not oc.
copy the Office. This was then supposed
by the witness to refer to a report current
that Anderson would not take the place
and witness stated that the impression made
upon his mind then was that Anderson had
been appointed because of his connection
with the operations there charged
in Louisiana. Witness said he had re-
NAMED under this impression, and had
stated it to others in private talks in his
Office, but that upon seeing, by the date OF
the Presidents letter to Secretary Evarts,
that the commission had been ordered with.
held on the 26th of May, a week or ten days
before the conversation with the President,
he saw that his impression had been alto
gether erroneous.
On the 18th June, Mrs. jerks and General
Boynton were again on the stand, but moth.
ing satisfactory was developed. General
Boynton corrected and verified the evi.
dence given by him yesterday, and added
an account of how General Harlan, of Ken
lucky, intrigued for a place on the Supreme
Bench, and urged Boynton to find out fol
him, while in Louisiana as a member of the
MacVeagh Commission, whether or no
General Bristow was a candidate for the
place, saying that if Bristow was not
candidate, he thought it possible the solu
ton of the Louisiana difficulty by the Com
mission would have a tendency to promote
his (Harlan's) candidacy for the place.
Marshall John R. G. Pitkin was on thu
stand, and testified that his Deputy U. s
Marshals assisted in bringing witnesses be
fore the Returning Board, a State organiza
ton, and that these witnesses were all Re
publicans, while the Democrats had to pro
duce and defray the expenses of their owl
witnesses. Pitkin was familiar with tn,
handwriting of Dan Weber, and identified
his signatures upon various papers pre-
sented to him, but he expressed doubt as Il
the ge%nuineness of the signature on tn,
Weber-Anderson agreement. He believes i
is not real, because of differences in tn,
characteristics of the handwriting, al
though there is a general resemblanc
except in the size of the letters
The next witness called was a Mr.. Haley
by whose testimony it is expected to dis
credit Mrs. jerks. He was prevented fror
testifying, however, by the Interesting an,
spirited interlocutory discussion whie
grew out of the objection raised by Nj
Hiscock to attempting, thus early, to in
peach the testimony of the witness, Mr.,
jerks, because she didn't swear that She
mon Urofa tho O11oronfu nf oofafp 70 yUaha
and Anderson, which attempt, he charged
was made for the purpose Of allowing th
erroneous impression to go to the countr
: that, because she may be proven to be NJ
worthy of belief, Mr.. Sherman wrote til
: letter which she swears she dictated.
Mr.. Hiscock and Mr.. Mcmahon indulge
e in a somewhat animated discussion upo
this question, during which the latter, in r
ply to a question by Hiscock, gave it as h
judgment that John Sherman wrote tt
, letta-.
t General Cox agreed with Hiscock and
j, did Butler in the main, though the latt
was in favor of taking the testimony
Haley.
Mr.. Butler argued that no evidence of Il
:. existence of a letter written by Sherms
q will be afforded by proving that MI
says she procured to be wri
= ten a letter which may have been al
L probably was the letter which was circula
a ing about the country. If you prove h
d wrong, it doesn't prove that Sherman wro
Is it; the thing is to prove that she is n
n worthy of belief.
! Mr.. Hiscock asserted that there was
IL legal evidence to show that Sherman wro
S. or ever saw the letter. The material thil
d is to establish the charge that Sherm.
al was or was not the author or had anythil
Is to do with the letter.
a Mrs. jerks was again before the Commi
!, tee on the 18th of June. She agreed to pi
!. duce certain letters of Mr.. Kellogg not y
d, submitted to the Committee, after sendil
or for them to New Orleans. In reply to qut
tions, the witness said she dictated the Sh,
: man letter to another party, and wished t
Committee to distinctly understand that s
W herself did not write it. She would u
t. give the name of the person.
" Mr.. Haley, a Democratic clerk in the ]
terror Department, by whom it was intend
to disprove some of Mrs. Jenks's testinor
swore that she had told him last winter tt
" she knew where the Sherman letter was, a
e. had been offered 5 $1,000 for it. He advis
ID her MOTTO sell for that price, because if S
was willing to sell she could obtain $50
. for it.
NJ The only point of material difference
y tween Haley's and Mrs. Jenks's testimo
III is that he says she stated to him that S
r, had written to her husband to send her t
C, letter, which was in a safe in New Orleal
as and that he responded by letter to t
effect that she had committed the blunt
of leaving it subject to her personal co
mand, whereas she testified that she b
1t, written to her husband about it.
by Judge Campbell, now United States D
trict Attorney for Dakota, a local JUG
at the time of the election, was
amined regarding the form and mode
making election protests, and as
10. the little he knew about the circumstanl
~ of Anderson's protest and subsequent
On streperousness about Withdrawing it. Can
Is bell stated that he regarded it legal a
proper to annex a protest or other afida
es to an election return afterit had been 81
nd from the parish to which it related, VIII,
= circumstance such as intimidation or oil
nc danger might have rendered its annexati
ie- impracticable in the first instance, especia
if such reason was stated by the Supervis
a He met sherman once and S%toughton seve
IN times in New Orleans, but the subject of
Anderson protest was not discussed by
ss visiting ststesmen.
All hands joined in keeping up a br
,ss cross-ire at the witness, who gave it as |
judgment that Packard was elected lega