Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-06-14

gress, New Orleans, Nov. 21st,
1876:
"By an agreement entered into
this day between James E. Ander-
son, Supervisor of Registration for
the parish of East Feliciana, La,
and Charles e. Nash, member of
Congress from the Sixth Congress
sional District of Louisiana, it is
agreed that said Anderson shall
suppress evidence showing that the
said parish of East Feliciana was
fairly carried by the Democratic
party at the election held Nov. Z,
1876, thereby electing the entire
Democratic State ticket and Con.
gressmen, in consideration of which
the said Nash agrees to secure for
said Anderson the position of Ma
val Officer at .he port of New Or
leans, La.
"JAMEs E. ANDERSON.
&c. L. NASH.
"The above agreement was sign
ed in our presence this 2lst day of
November, 1876.
~. M. ToMLINsoN,
o. B. MORGAN"
On June 9th, 1877, Anderson
wrote the following letter to STAN
ley Matthews, the friend of Hayes
and Republican Senator from
Ohio:
"JUNE 27.
"To the Hon. Stanley Matthews:
"MY DEAR SIR: have nothing
further to ask at your hands, or of
the monumental fraud who oceu-
pies the White House, beyond a
return of these documents. A re-
fusal on your part to return them
will justify me in publishing (and
will publish) your letters in the
statement propose TO make show
ing how Louisiana was carried for
Hayes. l shall remain here until
Friday next. If do not hear from
you by that time, l promise you
shall hear from me before the Ohio
election"
And, nearly a year after this
insolent letter, Stanley Mat
thews writes to Anderson the
following humble note. Let
every honest man read and ponder
it and ask himself if his devotion
to the Republican party calls for
such outrages on his conscience as
Endorsement:
"[Personal and Confidential
"UNITED STATES SENATE !
CHAMBER,
"WAsHINGToN, Feb. IL, 1873,
"MY DEAR SIR: 1 have your
note of yesterday, and in reply beg
to say that 1 do not reeollect the
suggestions heretofore made by you
to which you refer, and which you
think, if adopted, might still prove
advantageous to the public inter-
est, and l would be glad to hear
your report. 1 have been subjected
to such Misrepresentation in regard
to everything L have undertaken
to do that l do not think it would
be wise for me to go to Phila-
delphia or Baltimore for the pur-
pose of meeting you. In case you
should find it convenient to be in
Washington, 1 should be pleased
to see you. Yours truly,
"STANLEY MATTHEWS.
"Mr. JAMES +. ANDERSON, Phil
adelphia."
In view of such developments
the New York Herald, a paper
which has been fanatically devoted
to Hayes, may we'll say, a, it does,
in its Washington correspondence
of June 1st:
1t is certain that the testi mony
of Anderson to-day, reinforced, as
it was, by the documents he pro.
duced, and explaining these, has
produced a certain effect. There
was a general disposition before
hand to scout at anything he might
say, and he was well understood
to be an adventurer and political
trader, and it remains true still
that what he testified concerning
Secretary Sherman and Senator
Matthews has had comparatively
little effect. Mr.. Matthews is shown
to have been foolish enough to be-
come the custodian of documents.
the mere knowledge of whose ex.
istence ought to have made him ex.
tremely uncomfortable; but no one
imputes to him anything more Sc.
rious than folly. AS to Secretary
Sherman. his denial was unex.
pectedly guarded, but his friends
say that he spoke as he did because
he wants to see what remains to be
produced against him, and that
when all the witnesses have spoken
he will then give o satisfactory ac-
count Of himself. Mr.. Sherman
said to your correspondents, a few
days ago. that he had written no
letters at all to any one in Louis
lana, or on Louisiana affairs, and
that anything, therefore, of that
Kind .purporting to be from him
must be a forgery and fraud. His
guarded and somwhat indefinite
answer to-day has given the i'm
preston to a good many peopIe
that he stands on uncertain ground.
but it does not necessarily imply
that.
But the documents brought out
to-day, especially the agreement
between Nash, the eoIored candi-
date for Congress, and Anderson,
taken in connection with Ander-