The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-07-06
The Result. OF the Potter Investigation.


The following facts may he regarded as NOR
ally proved and established the result Of the inves
gauo,i 40 fat as II has been carried;
The whole pack who. under the administration Of
Grant had possession u the Government % Louisiana
GOV. Kellogg. the members Of the Returning Board the
and supervisors Of election and so forthwerc
hand OF pcrured scoundrels In the expectation OF re-
cciyng rich reward, they endeavored TO assure the
electoral votes Of Louisiana for Hayes and Wheeler and
the other hand. ns soon "a their fraud was accom-
pshcd they exertcd Themselves earnestly. by threat
ening to expose IT, to force the payment to themselves "
the compensation which they expected and which had
been partly promised them No Will he mistaken In
assuming that many outrages which happened In Lous
at that time brought forth for the purpose Of
facilitating the electoral fraud.
II. Its proved that John sherman. Stanley Matthew'S
stoushton. and the other leading Republicans Who at
the time Of the count In New orleans. although
they may have believed at the moment that In some
parts OF the state the elestnn had been affected by VIC
ence. yet hey knew that with honest and impartial
count the electoral votes Of Louisiana belonged 10 the
Dcmoc ratio candidate for Presidents and they employed
their influence TO carry out the frauds which had been
planned by kellogg and his associates and direct
Indirect manner they encouraged the tools used for this
purpose 10 persist In their lying statements and perured
protests The correctness Of this view Of the docs
dcpeni upon the possibility Of bringing forward di.
proof that sherman the author Of the notorious
sherman letter, for all the transactions which took
place between the Republican STATE and the Louis
swinicrs and which neither be doubted dis
puicd admit Of no other explanation. How sherman
and his friends oycrcame cruples Of conscience by
the idea that the election Of Hayes Indispensable TO
| INC MtNhfc OF TIC country may DC hit Undetermined,
but that during their presence In New orleans In No
yemher and December. 1879, they must have known
that the electoral votes Of that state could be given for
thu Republican candidate for President by cheating
Oi this every must be convinced who is not wilfuy
| blind
III There direct proof III at these frauds
cu'cd the request at the order ~ Mr. Hayes hut tho
belief that he must have had wellfoundcd suspicion
~ the character Of these events Ia very strong and II
Strengthens and fortified by the TACT that his
mendation several dozens Of the Louisiana swindcrs
VIII had N he
rewarded with Federal Offices Even II attribute ne
special weight to the promise which Mr. Hayes made IL
his letter Of acceptance and In his Inauguration speech
thnti nnr public oces he would regard capacity AM
worth the only standard II Is vet mex pcabe that h'
should have given only iothcsc scamp
whose sole merit consisted in the unscrupuousncss the,
had exhibited In iaSfyins the election Hayes NAV 10
taken for weak. npocnL narrow man. hut u would IL
q wonderful accident II in hng Offices IN Louisiana hi
| supilty should have led every time to the rcconmen
dauOn precisely those who distinguished ~
the execution OF the fraud through which he became
| President
These the results OF the Potter invc sgaon so far