The daily gazette., 1879-01-17
The Forged Title.

There never has been the least moral |
doub, that when Kellogg signed what is |
known as the second st of certificates |
for electors of Louisiana, to corr, ct the
errors which rendered the tiIs set worth
less, he knew that several names wer.
io sed to that faper, il he was not di-
lectly party to he forgery.
Everybody knows now that the date uf
the certificate was fabricated to cores
pond with the rejected original, which
Re utning Board Anderson had carried
h Washington. a'ld which Mr.. Ferry,
President pro te6pore of the Stna e. had
told him was irregular in form and there
fore inv alid. 1t has already be, proven
that Anderson opened this certificate in
Washii Etou. where he consulted with
the Republican chiefs as TO the exact
form, and then hurried back to New Or
leans 10 procure the paper upon which
the Electoral Commission acted finally.
A. h, LeVsee swore before the Potter
Committee that his signature to the Sc
cond set was palpable forgery, and Kel-
ley, the colored man, who was kelloggs
messenger at the time, and lad charge of
the room where the forgeries were per-
petrated, recently swore that to his
knowledge the name OF Oscar Jeiron
was also forged.
When the Potter Committee were at
New Orleans ten days ago, diligent in
quiry was made for others of the HAYES
electors about whose signatures there is
| also dis rust. Yet additional testimony
on this point is not necessary, and the
| case would not be strengthened if every
name to the second certificate was shown
to have been forged. Levisee, who now
holds the office of sub-revenue agent in
San Francisco, aud was probably assign
| ed to that remote service SO as to be out
| of the way, has established one forgery
in his own person, and Kelley has proved
| another.
| The difference between he two certif-
Gates from Lou slana is that the first pre-
tended 10 verify IA fraudulent result of
the election for President by genuine sig.
natures, while The second repeats the
fraudulent attestation by forged signa-
tures; and this secOnd paper was the one
adopted by the Commiss on as the means
of declaring Hayes President SO that
the astounding fact will 60 into his ory
that the eight electoral votes of Louisi-
ana were III the first ms ance s,oen by
conspiracy and fraud; aud in the
s, cond instance, hat the ceitihcate de
claring this result, being vitiatt by
bare'aced forgery, was yet solemnly ad-
judicated ss valid, because the eight-by-
seven Commission determined thai the y
, would not go behind the face of the
forged papers.
Honest thinking men may be deluded
or confused by conflict of testimony
in regard TO the vote of Louisiana, baseC
upon the stories of intimidation and VIC
D lence, ar fully constructed to mislead tn,
q unwary and TO deceive the tens of thou
sands who accept at second hand the as
surances of party managers and party pa
), pers. But putting all that entirely GU
of view, the astonishing fact yet stand
hat the whole administration of forty
It live millions of people, the public policy
the treasury and its mighty operations
the vast patronage of the Government
and the hundred thousand offices a
X home and abroad, are to-day in the band
@ of man who was not elected at all; an
, that even the fraudulent title by wbic
he claims to be President rests upon
/ forgery IN. Y. Sun.