American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-09-25

! ton which made in my speech n month az,
that Garfield went 10 New Orleans II par
si-an; that he occupied one OF the rooms %
the Custom house for the purpose of mnkins
| up til" evidence Tor Tue Returning Board; bu
| We Will go II good deal further than that
This question that make to night is not to &
subordinate writer ON the Journal l repeat
! IL is to John C. New, owner of the paper, and
the Chairman of the Republican Central Com
mIttee of Indiana. 1t is John G. New that
pIomIncntlNln his paper to-m morrow morning
"a the article in the Journal this morning.
| Where w:Ir this room in the Custom house
| | said this an inner room, and propose to
prove that by GARFIELD himself.
| q Where did yom converse with her, that
| il II negro woman Emily Mitchell? 4. In a
| private onice in the Custom house.
/ 20. one OF GOV. kellogg rooms? a. No.
sir; in one OF Mr. Packlrd's rooms in the Gus
tom house.
20. Who was there besides you two2 A.
| don't think there was any body else present
20. Who brought her to the room? A. I
can't say; somebody brought her there. l
sat down, and asked her to tell me the story
| of her husbands death, with all the particu-
was the exact truth about it.
| 20 Was there door keeper to the room?
| y. think there was nobody by ut all.
90. But was there n door keeper outside
the door? A. That l don't know.
| 90. DO you remember that there was a
| 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?
says it is not true. That is between Garfield
and the Journal, and between them would
not know which to believe. Applause.
80 So she did go from a hall into that other
room before she would get into the room
where You were? A. Yes. i take it that the
question of the inner room is n settled ques-
ton.
20 Was that door leading from the outer
door into this. open or shut? A. don't know.
20. Who occupied the outer room at the
time? A. There were several Custom house
rl VII IN 81 nSE G he md "a. nf
a very little more, gentlemen, about these
rooms:
beside yourself? A. 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 ssigned to me-" APP
plause.l There you have it-an inner room
room from the public hall, and that inner
room was assigned to James A. Garfield, and
there. as [ will proceed to prove. So the
question, What did he do in the inner room?
and that question was asked him under oath.
20. What did you do? A. 1 took all these
papers, commencing with the protest, and
then read them carefully and made a careful
each witness in my own way, as 1 would If 1
were a lawyer in the case" tApplnuse.l
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
judgment of the American people was cut off,
and receiving the evidence that turned the
Parish of West Feliciana and examining them
though he were a awyer in the case, and
so he Swore: I" when / had completed that |
i had gfeae dea OF ANXIETY to see the men who
read the evidence as it had been fixed up for
the negroes and the whites but it was more
than that. :" confess felt good deal of sur
prise and establishment at the revelations
contained in these documents; that l went
there with not a little apprehension that there
must be
GOOD DEAL OF LYING
in the papers of both sides connected with the
election | made inquiry and found that q
considerable number of these witnesses were
in the city. made out list of perhaps one
half or three-fourths of the names of the wit
nesses whose testimony had examined. and
inquired for 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. 1 can not name
all these witnesses with whom conversed,
Amy Mitchell Il shall have something to say |
about her directly, the young woman whose |
of the registry of election. l also remember |
Judge Quail, a Parish Judge whom 1 exam
examination" Mark this) .'As to the result |
Of the examination. OF course it was entirely |
unofficial, it was conversation of my own with |
these witnesses. / drau2hted some interrog- |
atories to draw out more fully from some of |
the witnesses the testimony which they had
gwen rather IN brief, and some of the inter-
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
Fl west ae d ne examined It and the tes
.wo thirds OF the witnesses, and he sent for
them, ,na , one by one. He examined them,
ull as he desired, he prepared addi-
Iional Intermediates, which went, in some
eases ut least, before the Returning Board. This
COMES REALLY VERY CLOSE
lround the .Journat and Garfield The sum
Feli6iana was prepared by me- A little
urther about what he did:
" Some Of these afiidavfts / notice in the
Vest Felfetana case were made after you ar
lived in New Orleans. Did you have any
hing to do with them yourself-in taking
hem? A. Nothing. except that in some in
tances, as have already related prepared
The next witness was Gen. Swayzee
90. Do you remember talking with him?
\. Yes, sir; do remember talking with
'wayzee. / think Undergraduates were pre-
Jared for him after my conversation with
lin. don't think prepared them, but there
vas a; brief AFFIDAVIT in the case that read
erropatOries were fled In the printing, they
we're printed instead of the original talked
With SwayZee. | saw his testimony not
Tery full, and after my conversation with him
were propounded to him nee
ssarily to bring out his evidence in full. and
hat evidence, in answering the interroga-
cries. was the evidence of Swayzee that was
printed"
The next man, Napalus 1 remember we'll, |
or he had very striking story of having been
'artly hung, and having been dragged with a |
0 whom interrogatOries were propounded af |
err the filing of the first affidavit. Now, gem |
lemen, he mentions as the most remarkable
ase in which he prepared the questions for |
he witnesses, the case of Amy Mitchell, SO
ill read what Garfield swore to in regard to |
hat case.
90. As regards the case of Amy Mitchell,
1hich made an impression on you can you | ,
ell whether it before after you were
FINISHED with copy of her affidavit that you |
erward. It was the reading of the affidavit ,
hat impressed me. and 1 asked to have her {
90. see that the affidavit appears to have {
cen sworn to the Both of November? A. lad /
ised them to take a fuller statement by in
from Amy Mitchell, and think ,
propounded a portion of the interrogato- t
nidavit, was earlier" r
ee what the case of Amy Mitchell was. Turn Z
~ the leaves of a book. She first made an t
fidavit in the Custom house. here G
SHE WAS EXAMINED PRIVATELY I
James a. Garfield. That affidavit was not /
Ill enough. He prepared additional inter-
,gatories to be propounded to her; and she i
answered those Undergraduates and in her | I
before this same committee she af- | 2
,rward swore that there was no truth in the | q
In answer to a question pro- q
bundled by Gov. Cox, of Ohio, who is Re- II
ublican, Amy Mitchell said-she repeated O
,ntained in the affidavit was false; that she a
id not say any thing because she knew it, | u
ut said what they told her to say. Her testi- d
,mmittee. don't say that GARFIELD was was d
1t he prepared the interrogatories that were | h
lswered: and he prepared the interrogatories | ri
ter he had an interview with that colored h
oman, when there was no person besides d
efnselves present; and the same woman
mes before the committee of Congress, not
an Inner room, not where the light of Gods |.