The daily gazette., 1878-07-05

W vi OW OuJ Ine vote, UHlS 1nabLer was
considered by the visiting statesmen, and
they went so far as to advise the Board to
stretch even the arbitrary power that they
had already exercised; understood this
from conversations with them.
y. Who gave that advice? a. / do not
remember the name of any person, but it
was comon rumor in the Custom House
at New Orleans; / heard it discussed bv
nearly all the visiting statesmen, but |
could not give any name in particular.
Q.What inducement was offered to you
to secure your brothers intiunce to allow
his protest to be made? A. Governor
Kellogg, Governor Packard and Gener-
al Thomas G. Anderson, of the Return
ing Board, requested me to use my in
fiunce to have my brothers protest made,
and then afterward, when it had been
made, they requested me to use my influ-
ence with him to have it stand; they
said / would be satisfied; that the y would
see was returned to the Senate and my
brother would be taken care of.
By Mr.. Springer-Did General Ander-
dcrson, Governor Kellogg and Governor
Packard said SO; it was stated to me by
l.. B. jerks also that if l wanted to be
elected to tn" Senate l should hgve to file
all affidavit like the rest of them; | was
beaten over twelve hundred majority in
my district.
q. What majority did the Returning
Board give you in your district after
throwing out the different parishes? A.
They gave me majority of between six
or seven hundred.
@. Then they reversed the popular
majority of / 200 and returned you AS
elected by a Returning Board majority of
six or seven hundred? A. Yes, sir.
q. This was III consequence of your
influence with your brother that he
should allow your protest to stand? a.
Yes, sir.
BY Mr.. Hunton-Was there any ground
for throwing out the votes of the parishes
of East and West Feliciana? A. Ac-
cording to the best of my knowledge and
information there was no ground what
ever in East Feliciana; if the republi-
cans had made canvass there they pro-
badly would have cast a respectable vote
and. much larger vote in West Feliciana,
| have always been satisfied that i could
have been elected if we could have made
any kind of a canvass in those parishes,
but the republican leaders agreed before
hand, and / understood it to be part of
their plan, from conversations had with
Mr.. Kellogg about it, not to have a re-
plbllcan vote cast there when / visited
him in New Orleans i asked him to give
the republican committee funds and to
send us some speakers up there SO that
we could register our full vote, and L
then saw the republicans were not dis
posed to have any election there they
said these two parishes were going dem
ocratic and they were going to throw them
out; Mr.. Packard told me few days be-
fore the election that if he and Hayes did
not get any votes in East and West Fell
ciana he was going 20 be Governor and
Hau fo ha DraSi1ant h..
told me this in the presence of Mr. Arra-
stead, Mr.. Duncan and Others whom / dc
not now remember.
Q. He said the best way 10 dispose of
the democratic majority was to throw
out the votes of the county that that was
better than making a republican canvass?
A. Yes, sir; and l know of my personal
knowledge that Mr., Kellogg employed
Mr.. l.. Is. jerks to keep James f. An
derson away from the parish AMI to pre-
vent his holding an election there ~ SUI
pervisor. have IL letter from Mr.. l.. B.
jerks, dated New Orleans, 10Th of Octo-
ber, 1876, in which he states that Mr..
Pitkin requested him to hunt up Ander-
son and to prevent his coming to East
Feliciana to hold an election. Mr.. jerks
came up to Bayou Sara few days after
ward, before the election, and stated to
me that they had had some difficulty
WIFI huutISOn III httDluR DlHl away
rom East Feliciana; that Pitllin, Kellogg,
Packard and the other leaders desired to
hold no election in East Fellciana, and
that that had been their programme,
mapped out long time before, and he
had been endeavoring to keep Ander-
son away, but had failed to do so, and
that Anderson would go up and hold the
election; he told me that they had given
him money to prevent Anderson's going
up, and that they wanted him to go down
town and get Anderson drunk, so as TO
prevent his coming Jenks was one of
tho e in the plot with Kellogg and others
TO prevent an election being held there,
and he had been working upon my BROTH
er and myself to prevent any election IN
West Feliciana, but we were always OPP
posed to that, because we thought we
could get West Felciana.
Q. Dsyou not know there was large
OF democratic votes lost in East
Feliciana because of the failure or An
derson to como up there ald register
them? A. Yes, sir; there was between
four and five hundred.
.. Yeu have stalled that the visiting
advised this course of action?
A. Yes, sir; i had a conversation with
General Garfield, Mr.. Sherman and
others who L do not remember, but /
know it was generally understood that
they were ADVISING Che StretcnlDg or The
powers of the Returning Board of the ut
most extent in the same direction that
they were stretched in 1874, when
they proved successful.
THE ELIZA PINKsToN AFFAIR.
O. Were you present when Eliza
was brought to New Orleans
before the Returning Board? A. No,
sir; but | know that she was interviewed
by Secretary Sherman and others at the
Custom House before she appeared be-
fore the Returning Board; l understood
that was part of the plot fixed up to
have her come down there and testify
that she was outraged by the democrats
and bad been terribly abused, to impress
the visiting statesmen with the idea that
such q thing was common down there in |
that section of the country; heard the |
visiting statesmen converse about it af- |
L can't remember distinctly who |
,hey were. |
Q. You may state what they said or |
5hs substance of what they said about |
Eliza Plnkston. A. To the best OF nv
knowledge and belief they understood |
hat this matter of Ehza Pinkston was a |
put up job TO make political capital for |
,he Republican party.
.. Did you know that it was a put up
OF? A. knew it from Information that
Mr. Hamlet, who was candidate for
Senator In that district, gave me, and in
'0rmatiOn | haua from, otbare. Nr |