American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-03-15
Beport of the Republican Members of the
Committee.
The min orifv 70 mort of the Potter THveS.


tfgating Committee states that #" the whole
investigation, with its 5000 pages of hearsay
and falsehood, had not afforded the slightest
proof of what was asserted. No man mad
come forward and said that any bride was
accepted, THAT any member of any Can
wasting Board Indicated any desire to betray
MS tr'.st Every lntiatlo OF tnaa hdn4 th msa
ends, and that d Democrat had never been
brought before them. Mr.. MeLin, OF Florida,
to whose testimony Mr.. Tilden referred, al
though soatied by sickness and imaginary
wrongs, never for Il moment admitted I'm
proper conduct mt tiir time He only thinks.
from after knowledge, that he may have been
mistaken. Gen. Barlow. whose cobfuct has
received the compliments of the majority at
ter full xlfo wledge of the workings of Cow.
gilPs mind admits his honesty OF purpose, and
that of oil others. As to the South Carolina
mony of Mr. Dunn satisfied every man who
heard it of the absence Of frand in south Car
ruption with wlicf ridden and his agents had
filed the air, were nothing but the unsup-
tie Courts have decided. The tribunals in
three States decided on the Hayes Electors
fS aa
To bolster up that assertion by proof was the
object of the original consultation Of this
committee They toiled until the lst OF Au-
gust, and found no evidence. In October the
Publication of the cipher dispatches showed
s % y saa' of the tribm
mails before whom they had failed had them
selves endeavored to corrupt with money
accusations ceased to be assertions and the
opinions of hottest men and became slandefs
The country which had been deceived by the
apparent earnestness and honesty OF Illden
hypocrisy OF IN that Marble had written and
FELTON, Circulated. THIS fabric OF alleged
fraud thus fallen was what tile report OF the
and upon old foundations. No wonder then
they preferred to make a separate report on
fn s.sh the cipher u dispatches Omitted
would be like the Play NJ hamlet with Hamlet
Left out The tb se9 fp M
ed by the other side"
these transactions was limited to the denfals
of Tilden and Col FELTON,. and that the latter
whom he was dependent. natural, but
the idea that penniless man, living IN the
wealthy uncle (Nir. Tiiden) should have CON
Quoted negotiations involving such large
sums without word OF hint TO any body else,
could not for moment be entertained by
candid men. If Col. PeltOn's story be true he
must be removed from the category of
knaves to that of tools but the man who con-
Quoted the campaign of 1876 as acting Secre-
tary of the Democratic National Committee
election center all his interests in the hands
In regard to the Visiting statesmen at
New Orleans, the report says that" the evil
dence proves their conduct, and that of Sher-
man. Garfield. Hale, Kelly, and others, whom
and frank The atteiript to single out sher-
man for a special attack seemed to have no
original foundation but the testimony OF
Anderson and the character of the evi.
dence OF such witnesses was shown in his ef-
fort to assiii1 Stanley Matthews. The
minority thought the whole commit
tee should unite in reporting that
the whole foundation for the original resolu-
ton, as far as this part of the case Is con-
timony and manufactured documents OF
man totally unworthy of notice. Before the
Pot pi,,.r Rna a maj
of gross violence and intimidation in the SO
called bull doZed parishes. The majority
were falsely and frauduleutly made, and that
this was known to the Board and to the WIS.,
ting committee. We find the testimony
taken before this committee rather suStains
them than impeacheS them"