Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1878-06-15
THE GREAT NATIONAL SCANDAL
STANLEY MATTHEWS IN HOT WATER.
HIS DENIAL.
IN. 0. Times.)

AO'S pAesSS cAAO
United States Senate, and denied that
he was - party to any promise Of pro-
lection or reward to any one in consid-
Grafton of the commission Of any fraud
by the person or persons to whom the
promises were made He also put in a
special denial in these words:
deny that made efforts to procure
official appointment for Mr.. Anderson,
with knowledge or belief on my part that
he or any one else mad been guilty ofany
fraud in connection with that election,
or the fultillment OF any promise OF re-
ward that had been made to him Oh that
or any consideration whatever.
Thus is the issue made up.
Dir. Mathews has been very promi-
nent figure in the pecularl: delicate ne
gotiations which preceded the advent
Of Mr.. Hayes into the presidential
chair. He was not of any particular
prominence before. He was Il lawyer of
very good standin at the Ohio bar, and
had been q soldier Of approved courage
during the war. This sums up his public
record before tho 9TH of November, 1876.
Since then he has been known Of all men
as the immediate friend and closest adj
wiser of the president, whom he helped
to his place. Mr.. Mathews stands be-
fore the bar Of public opinion charged
assisted, as accessory before the fact, TO
subvert and defeat the sense Of SOW
ereign State Of the Union as expressed
at the polls. TO the charge, he pleads
not guilty in the general and special de-
malls given above.
If Mr. Matthews were not the really
able lawyer that he is, this statement
might have more force. But when he
says concerning tho general charge OF
the fraud in Louisiana, II assert, upon
my honor as a senator, which l am pre-
pared to maintain on my oath, that l do
not now, and never have. believed that
any such frauds were, III fact, ever COM
mitted; that do not know that any
promise was ever made to Anderson or
any one else in consideration IL of fraudu-
lent serv ices in connection with the
presidential election he seems to have
forgotten the following agreement, of
| which he was for nearly a year and
hal the custodian
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 81, 1876.
BY an agreement entered into before
James L. Anderson, supervisor OF regis
tration of tho parish of East Feliciana,
louisiana and Chas. +. Nash, member
of Congress from the sixth congressional
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 De.
mocratic party at the election held No
yember 9, 1876, thereby elccting the en-
tire Democratic State ticket and con-
| gressmcn, in consideration of which the
said Nash agrees to secure for said An
derson the position OF naval officer at the
| port of New Orleans. Louisiana.
ISigned) JAMES E: ANDERSON,
| G.. E. NASH,
| The above agreement was signed in
our presence this 2lst uay Of November,
1876
| j. NJ. ToML1NsON,
| O. B. MORGAN.
Mr.. Matthews still has this agreement.
That he owned to its possession, is PROV
Oh by his writing to Anderson: "lou
should say to Nash, if inquired after,
| that hare the agrcement.'
| AS to the second paragraph OF his dl-
rect denial, that he did Lot "know that
any promises were III ade to Anderson Or
anv one else" the answer is that Mr..
Matthews himself promised Anderson to
help him to II position. In trying to
| carry out this promise, he wrote the letter
to Tom Anderson, then and now deputy
| collector of the port, which was printed
yesterday morning, and also this letter
to Mr.. Evarts
| CINCINNAT1, May Ia, 1877.
MY DEAR SIH-The bearer, Mr. James
| L. Anderson, of New Orleans, is the gen
| tleman in reference to whom, when last
in Washington, l tad a private convers;I-
ton with you urging his appSntlnent p?i t,,t, to
| q cOnSulShiD Inc clfcunl-
stances in which Ny. Anderson has been
placed, and in which he has boen com
PEELED to act Il very difficult part, are such
as to give him very strong claims upon
| the administration in the public interest:
and dc most earnestly urge thatI some
satisfactory public employment may be
found for him at once. Very truly,
| (Sirucd) STANLEY MATTHEW'S.
This is Il clear and positive document
easy to be understood. Mr.. Matthews
writes to Anderson, on the 18th of April
that he had seen Mr.. Evarts about the
| CallaO COnSulaIC-WulCllu uc couiuii So'
but that he will get him Il satisfactory
appointment at houle or abroad. Apri
q Matthews notifies Anderson that the
Tientsin consulate, which he wanted, hat
been disposed of. eve, associate Jus
tice Harlan and himself, } both concludes
it would DO better for you to wait til
June i, when l will be in Washington
regularly situated so that can give tho
attention to your application which
have promised
. In. Nh MlttlNMs