The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1879-03-04

after kcv's letter to tho Chnir,unm n,J I', Nv
MY WTot" inc letter because OF his dissatisfac.
irht9u. and ~ ho had been for mouths cared
i"r 10y NE friends to whom Kennedy had
nt1uENt MN, your Committee stron yly susnnct
nat inis story WAS false, and was told brr,,uss
bHh'hard was dead. aud IN order 10 divert al.
the forgery.
NECESSITY FOR FORGERY.
Since i WIS known when the second soy NJ
T,,"loral certlh'Hies was prepared that tho
hr.slIrntial election turned uron but une vote,
u was essential that the certificates il signed
ai an. should nppenr to to- signed by all the
electors. With SIX votes they would have been
Pc more useful than with one. and us It was not
hhoWh unul Anderson returned that they
would he needed. there was little time to pet
rom tho interior OF State in which travel is so
presence was requisite. II was NATURAL there.
fore. that some OF these might not arrive in
u9me. ~ was equally necessary that the
d'spatchcs should lrnye on the GOTH So that
ihoir arrival could not Ice waited for Juffrion,
i"visee. aud Marks all resided in the interior.
Marks says he arrived in time, although there
II nuch confusion about his story JufIrion
ana Lnvlsre ala not. II became. therefore Il
were TO be VI any usr the names of tho nls"n.
tets should be- forged To- them. The resources
OF helloggs administration were equal to the
Oc!Hsi on, ndthey were forged.
=, As these papers consisted Of distinct lists o
nl"virs for President aud o. thevol"s for Vice.
President separately certified. the signature of
~ rlertor was required To the set a. papers
MIN" tiuos-once 10 the list of votes for pfrs
u'lt, once 70 tue list oi votes Tor Nicc-president
nhd once for the cndors mont upon the enye-
lopn ro'itinE what the papers Within were; and
| a. the papers were prepared in tripliclte Theses
three signatures had To h' three times repeated
| thus making nine signatures for each doctor,
| 70 say nothing OF the signatures that may have
D'rn required To new authority 10 u mcesen-
ger 10 carry the electoral list 10 Washington if a
new authority was executed.
Ana so Il WIS INIT These papers thus pre-
| pared IN the state House In New Orleans. un-
| dor the direction OF Kellogg and his Secretary.
! wern furnished ~ the afternoon Of the Goth day
oil December. lSt6 with from eighteen TO
| twenty seven forged signatures
DELIVERY OF FORGED CERTIFICATES.
Two oi the forged electoral certificates reached
| Mnshngion ON the first "Wednesday otJanuary.
! 1877. one by mail, the other hy Hill rs mcssrn.
! g'r; Upon his arrival HIN waited upon MIR.
| Hnrhnrah Chandler, President OF the Repub-
liean National Committee. To whom he brought
| letter from Kellogg. H. informed Chandler
| he had brought the returns. and was then III
| r.cted TO- Immediately deliver Thorn % Mr..
| Ferry He reached Mr. Ferry's Office M the
! Capitol about 4 o'clock. Hill informed Mr..
| Ferry what he brought. MIR. Ferry went out
| and called in MIR. John sherman. and then. in
| Shermnn's presence. Hill delivered His trini-
| cate Of the forged certificate To Ferry. Hi
then went with Mr.. sherman to his committee
| room. where sherman wrote a letter to Kellogg
! II III then waited on Mr.. Frye and Mr.. Hale 10
,wh99m he brought letters from Mr.. Packard and
! mld Them ne had brought tue returns, and then
! AT; FRYE tod Nun q hold tho Tort" and Mr..
Hale " TO stand firm"
ATTEMPT TO SUPPRESS GENUINE crETrFrcAr Es
The first intention Of the parties was To- sup
press the genuine certificates Of the 18th oi De-
! cenlber. and rely entirely uuon the forged ones
which were regular IN form. Clark accordingly
! suppressed and retained the certificate which
Anderson had taken To WASHINGTON and an np.
! plicatlon WAS made 10 the District Judge To
Withdraw from the Hes the trlpiirnte OF the
genuine set which had been filed IN his ON a.
/ but this the District Judge refused "a permit,
! ana the purpose IN this RESPECT WIS thereby de-
icated. Not only dii neither the press norany II
the Democratic leaders learn hat a second tur.t-
ing OF tue Eltctora College WAS To Dee held or TINT
ihe, electoral certificate intrusted To Anderson
had been returned 10 New Orleans. or thnt new
ones were made. hut the matter was rs Brew
ster STYLES H. kept rather private 80 private
tlht, although he was repeatedly sent Tor during
the 18th 10 come 10 the Governors Office II was
not even limited 70 him why his presence was
needed until he learned the renson from Clark
there. And the President Of the senate Mr.
f"rfy, appears To have AZ carefully withheld
from the Democrats In Washington and indeed
from everybody hut two ~ the Republican
managers, any knowledge that another set of
certificates had been received from louisiana
THE BuELEsQvE CERTIFICATE AND ITS OBJECT
When The tive Houses met IN Joint Convention
lnna was reached the President Of the : nate
produced first the genuine Kellogg certificate
wumh had come TO him By mail. next the
duplicate. one copy 10y mail and tho
other by. messenger and next tho
%'S SopicS ' "sa hy e' ma ind be W SIba4
hy Hill as messenger. had reached him: and
! finally a certificate signed 10y John Smith. de-
clarlng that the vote Of Louisiana had been cast
for Peter Cooper. This bogus certificate the
Convention directed TO Ice suppressed from us
records. and no reference To 10 appears there.
II il dnirult to conceive why. for the first time
IN the history 81 the Government, a false. and
HVnweiy iHlse sertihcHt' shonhi have been
serious, and regarded ~ so extreme
y unit Tor pleasantly. unless il WAS TO
draw attention from the forged Kellogg cer-
uncntes. and to create diversion which
might Withdraw from those certificates the
scrutiny Of the Convention. and e. create
"A CfItlNrltN 10 MlIrn FUmNTs of
forgery in the electoral certificates from
that State might naturally he ascrihrd.
THIS suspicion ls sircn -thrurl 10y the fact that
this hurl"Hquc certificate cannot now bee found.
nor Is any account Eiyenot what became OF It
by the record kept OF such certificates that IL
reached the President Of the Senate on tho ON
! Of January. 1871 six days after the delivery OF
the forged Louisiana certificates, time enough
after TINT certificate was received to have tee-
graphed 10 Louisiana 10 have TINS burlesquo
paper prepared.
THE FRAUD on THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION.
Al the certificates. except that Of Smith. were
sent before the Electoral Commission. There
they We're not read. but. as tho reading was
about to begin motion WAS made that they he
printed. AMI the Secretary ~ the Commiss ion
WAS thereupon directed to have them printed
IL had been the practice OF the Secretary 10 send
the original certificates to the public printer to
be printed. by whom the certificates and printed
copies were returned tho following morning;
and the printed copies were then distributed by
the Secretary or Ills deputy to the Commission
and the counsel On this occusion. however
anu nu tNlS o'fdNlbu NAlSs klt ftEitl'dttN. III
stead OF being sent To the public printer. were
sent 20 q private printer. Mr.. Pearson, who. in
stead OF rrturning them the following morning
10 Mr. Mckinney. the Secretary, 10 bo dis
tuhuted distributed them directly 10 tho Com
mission and the counsel hy two OF his press
boys. THIS change Of the printer and in the de-
livery Of the prints Of tho cert liGates ne.thcrthe
Commission nor counsel seem 10 have been
Gwnre OF.
lnasmu'h as no notice WIS taken 10y tho many
counsel before the COmmlss ION, nor by those in
conference with them. nor by any Of the mem-
beers OF the Commission. nor 10y any Of the TWO
hundred Democratic members OF the House
and senate, whose attention had been concrn-
tratcd upon Louisiana, Of tue fact that the first
electoral ccrteHt" from that State WIS so de-
fcrtiyr, the presumption would serm To be- in
evltthle that the prints Of tho Lou.slu krl-
logg certificates which were DISTRIBUTED Kust
have been, not QUO copy each OF the oriAnal
detective certificate aud Of the revised ccNh-
cate with forged signatures. but instead two
copies Of the latter
such substitution Of tho ono print for the
other might have happened by accident But
the attendant circumstances indicate TINT this
change in the distribution uf the prints WIS the
result. not OF accident, but Of design,
The Originals of the Louisiana certificates had
been marked by the presiding Judge with his
luitln's, aud with number t. distinguish them.
That Is. the first cert tcute OF the Kellogg ciec-
tors WINS nhrktd No. ]. y. G.. - the next. or
DrmOorHtic cert il"Rte. WAS marked " No. 3 \.
G. = and the forged certificate was marked
90 No 3 N Gh But aS urIutel these distin-