The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-06-08
LEVIsEEs SIGNATURE.
How 1t Wasn't Obtained, and How
Handy Kellogg was I'm Get
ting UP Documents.

Apropos Of the matter Of the Louisiana
Hayes electoral returns as testified to BY Levi
see before the Potter committee on Thursday.
it is stated here by those who are cognizant of
the facts that Levisees statement can and will
be corroborated by several different witnesses.
Gen. Anderson, who was the messenger who
conveyed the returns to Washington stated to
a representative of the DEMOCRAT some time
since that the first set of returns made out were
those which were acted upon by the Senate.
but from the testimony now produced it seems
that he was somewhat In error.
The second set referrt d to by Levisee
AS THOSE FORGED
we're manufactured here in the State House,
and were those upon which the Electoral Com
mission decided to give the State to Hayes and
Wheeler. Levisee's name having been signed to
them by. a party Kellogg knew we'll and who Is
now out of the city, but whose testimony will be
forthcoming when his evidence is needed.
In connection with these returns, the manner
In which the certificates of election of the Hayes
electors were manufactured is spoken of by
those who were conversant with political mat
ters as somewhat singular. but in keeping with
the system Of the mill" Kellogg had for the
manufacture Of such documents.
On the afternoon previous to the morning
upon WulCu LuS E6LuTnS
FOR THE HAYES ELECTORS
we're promulgated by the Returning Board, a
lively newspaper correspondent representing
some of the largest Democratic dailes in the
North and West called at Gov. KeIloggs office
to inquire as to the probability of the Returning
Board making no their minds as to. who the
electors should be. He was told that tho re-
suit for the electors would not be reached until
The next day, but taking this for what, it was
worth, he moment afterwards raised the blot
ting pad upon the desk Of KellOgg's private
secretary, and behold. there we're the certif-
Gates ready made for the occasion in anticipa-
ton OF the action OF the returns, and hours be-
fore they had their sum mary of votes ready.
The correspondent quietly left the room and
building, and made a bee line for the telegraph
office, from where he communicated these facts
to the several papers he represented.
Nothing was known of 1t In the city until
about Gt0 80 2, m; when the DEMOCRAT through
formation and gave 1t to the public In an extra.
hours before the compilation of the returns
This rather frightened Kellogg, and when the
foreign correspondents called upon him at his
house he denied that such was the fact and
stuck to 1t
LIKE LITTLE MAN.
The correspondents then waited in O body
upon the person who shifted the blotting pad
and he reiterated the statement made In his
dispatches, ard about 10 .. M, whom the mob
of correspondents again called at Kelogg's
house, he acknOWl edged that the Returning
Board had made their report Q short time be;
fore. and only, a few hours after the fact had
On the following morni e. while the same
lent was in the Auditors office. at the
State House, Mr.. Clarke, Kellogg's private sec
rotary. came in. and sddr ssing the clerk who
had made the original certificate. handed it to
him. and. pointing out some inaccuracies,star cd
in the writer's presence that Kellogg desired
ANOTHER SET MADE OUT.
with the alterations noted. This was done in
the presence of the writer, and Is related now
merely to show how easy 1t was for Kellogg, If
he was so disposed. to get up second or third
set of the Hayes Electoral College returns, and
to get Levissee's signature. II he was in hur
rY. even though Levissee WIS in Shreveport.