Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-09-23

1 said that they distributed parishes among
these visiting statesmen, and that IN the dis
| tr1butlon OF the parishes for investigation and
manipulation. the parish of West Eelicianii
! fell to James A. Garfield. Will read what he
sWore TO- anu after TO- night It shall not be pc
/ bricks sad. but the question now shall be
/ what GARFIELD said. [Appiause.l in his an
sWer to question, he says: "Thereupon, in
/ order TO make our work of examination and
! our knO Wedge of the case as full as possible,
| the suggestion was adopted that all the testi-
mony relating to one parish be given to one
man, and the testimony relating to another
parish should be given to another man.
Among the parishes that were contested were
| the parishes of Feliciana, and believe that
Mr. sherman assigned these parishes to Mr..
vide them between us as we chose. I sug-
| gested TO Mr.. Parker to take his choice. He
took East FeIiciana; L took West Feliciana.'
90. What did you take 1t for?''
VIII give the answer OF that pregnant CUES
ton. and when il is answered, the Journal says
! their banner for candidate is
A DIsGRACED MAN.
| [AppIause.l ga. mean by that TO say that I
| took the copies of all the official papers which
/ We're delivered TO the Returning Board touch
! ing the election in West Feiiciana, and for
/ convenience OF examining these papers, as L
did not reside mt the st. Charles Hotel, 1 occu-
! pied Il room in the Custom house in the cor
ner of the building" Laughter.
| This is coming close up 20 Garfield and
Il don't know now whose room it was; it
was room not very much used; think 1t
was one of the private offices, perhaps. of the
Collector himself" You recolect who was
Collector, don't you? 1t was Packard that
was running for Governor and that could not
hold his office although he got thousand
more votes than Hayes, who got the vote OF
Louisiana. [Applause.l
Gentlemen, Whit do you say to the PROPOSE
ton which made in my speech month ago
that Garfield went to New Orleans as Il par
tisan: that he occupied one of the rooms of
the Custom house tor the purpose of making
up the evidence for the Returning Board; but
we will go Il good deal further than that.
This question that make to- night is not to a
subordinate writer on the journal. l repeat
/. it is to John c. New, owner of the paper, and
| the Chairman of the Republican Central Com
mittee OF Indiana. 1t is John c. New that
shall brand if he does not place my answer as
prominently in his paper to- morrow morning
us the article in the Journal this morning.
Where was this room in the Custom house?
( L said this was an inner room. and propose to
prove that by Garfield himself.
80. Where did you converse with her, that
| Is a negro woman, Emily Mitchell? \. In Il
! private office in the Custom house.
%. One of Gov. kellOgg's rooms? 4. No,
| sir; in one of Mr.. Packard's rooms in the Gus
! tom house.
90. Who was there besides you two? A. L
! don't think there was any body else present
/ when she was there.
%. Who brought her to the room? A. I
/ can't say; somebody brought her there.
| think she had little child in her arms. She
! sat down, and asked her to tell me the story
| OF her husbands death, with all the particu-
| lars, and told her that all 1 wanted to know
| was the exact truth about it.
| 80 Was there door keeper to the room?
| 4. think there was nobody by at all.
40. But was there a door keeper outside
! the door? a. That L don't know.
%. Do you remember that there was
/ door keeper for that room? A. That room
communicated with another room; there was
no door into the hall; think that door COM
municated with the next room, which com
/ municated with the hall"
Was it an inner room or not, gentlemen?
That is what Garfield swears to. The Journal
| says it is not true. That is between Garfield
| and the Journal, and between them L would
not know which to believe, Applause
90. So she did go from han into that other
/ room before she would get into the room
! where you were? \. Yes. / take it that the
| question of the inner room is settled ques-
| ton.
| 40. Was that door leading from the outer
! door into this. open or shut? A. Idon't know.
20. Who occupied the outer room at the
! time? \. There were several Custom house
clerks who had desks behind a sort of railing
\ very little more, gentlemen, about these
rooms:
so: In that inner room was there anybody
beside yourself? \. Nobody"
He was asked whether there was ANYBODY
in that inner room but himself, and he says
no. Not that there was no inner room, but
there was nobody in the inner room but him
self. ''Some of the men who were getting up
statements about other parishes came in
there, but the room was assigned to me- APP
plause. There you have tan inner room
/ reached only by passing through another
room from the public hall, and that inner
room was assigned to James a. Garfield. and
he occupied it and received the witnesses
there. as [ viii proceed to prove. So the
question, What did he do in the inner room?
and that question was asked him under oath.
so. What did you do? A. took all these
papers, commencing with the protest, and
then read them carefully and made Il careful
/ brief of their contents, giving the summary of
each witness in my own way, as I would if
were lawyer in the case" LApplause.I
THERE Is GARFIELD
! at New Orleans-the man who asks to preside
! in the chief office of this great Nation. There
/ is Garfield, sitting in that inner room in the
/ Custom house, where the light of day and the
/ n q yx-.S f.l,t( off
/ and receiving the evidence that turned the
| Parish of West Feiciana, and examining them
/ so he swore: "When l had completed that
/ felt great deal of anxiety to see the men who
had testified if 1 could. 60 1t not enough to
read the evidence as it had been fixed up for
the negroes and the whites, but it was more
than that. 50 1 confess felt good deal of sur
prise and establishment at the revelations
/ contained in these documents that / went
there with not little apprehension that there
must be
GOOD DEAL OF LYING
in the papers of both sides connected with the
election. I made inquiry and found that a
considerable number of these witnesses were
in the city. | made ont list of perhaps one
half or three-fOurths of the names of the wit
nesses whose testimony had examined. and
inquired tor them and procured interviews
with them. sat down with them and asked
them to tell me their own way the stories of
their relation to the election. can not name
all these witnesses with whom I conversed,
but some of them remember distinctly-Mrs.
Amy Mitchell II shall have something to say
about her Directly, the young woman whose
husband had been killed during the progress
of the registry of election. I also remember
Judge Quail, a Parish Judge whom l exam
ined in the same way, as to the result Of the
examination" Mark this.) CAS- to the result
of the examination. OF course it entirely
unofficial. it was conversation of my own with
these witnesses. L draughted some interrog-
atories to draw out more fully from some of
the witnesses the testimony which they had
given rather in brief, and some of the inter
rogatories which subsequently were appended
to the testimony of these witnesses" Now,
notice what he has sworn to: That he occu-
pied that room, and that when the testimony
was all handed to him relating to the Parish
of West Feiiciana, he examined it and the tes-
timony, and he made out list of half or
two thirds of the witnesses, and he sent for
them one by one. He examined them,
and when their testimony not as
full he desired, he prepared addi-
tional interrogatories which went, in some
cases at least before the Returning Board. This
COMES REALLY VERY CLOSE
around the Journal and Garfield. "The sum-
mary in the testimony in the of West
Feliciana prepared by me- A little
further about what he did
Some of these affidavits I notice in the
West Feliciana case were made after you ar
rived in New Orleans. Did you have any
thing to do with them yourself-in taking
them? a. Nothing, except that, in some in