Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1880-09-09
What does GarheId's Candidacy
Signify ? =" .a'
IT MEANS THE INDoRsFMNNT AND
, APPROVAL OF THE PRESI-
DENTAL FRAUDaoF 1876 ~
IN THE, MoSr5 Or -.6u
FENSIyE SENSE. s.as

-> IN THE MoSr5. Or -.aU
FENSIyE SENSE. s.as
Extract from Ex-Gov Hendricks, Speech at
Marion, Ind, Aug. IL. :, ~ s1rt g
What does General Ga,6elI's =
nomination signify? Above and
beyond all else it means the .in~
dorsement and approval, in. the
most positive aud offensive man.
FER possible. Of the Presidential
fraud of 1867. He had more to
do with it than any other man
He is the only man who occupied
towaid it and in it a double rela-
ton.
+ Immediately after tho election
he went to New Orieans-not by
virtue of any law or rishtful pub
lie authority, but as party man.
General Grants request was with
out authority Of law. He went to
assist bis party in making up the
case. | say he went for that pur-
pose, because when there he did
that work. When his work WAS
completed in New Orleans he and
his associates returned to Wash
ingtoD, aud he alone, Of all the
men engaged in making up the
care, took his seat npon the com
mission to decide it. What think
you, gentlemen, Of ii man VINO has
formed his opinion who has indeed
helped so prepare the Case for trial;
who mas sought and prepare d the
evidence, taking his seat as a ju-
ror ? By the laws of the United
States, by The laws of every S a'e,
such IA man is excluded from the
jnry box. By every sentiment Of
Justice and fair play such a man
Is excluded. That he did this
work at New O leans no man can
quest ton. There was pretense
that he and his associates went to
see that the canvass OF the votes
was fairly made. For that pre-
tense all respect disappeared after
they refused to join the Democrats
from the North 10 seeing that the
count was in TACT fair. He has
made sw 'rn statement of his
conduct at New Olleans, and by
that he must be judged. HIS tes-
tlmonv commences at page 700 OF
Doc. 81 accompanying report No.
40. House Representatives, 3 !
sess. rs Congress. Somewhat by
designation and somewhat by
choice, the parish OF West Felici :
ana came into the chal ge OF Gen
Ga, field Tor examination. He
received copies OF all the official
papers, which had been deli,e ed
to the returning board, touching
the election IN that parish. For his
work one of Packard s inner rooms
in the e,custom house was assigned
to him. This room he occupied
alone. Gu page SOL he says /:
professionally some of the men,
who were getti"g up statements
about other parishes, came IL
there, but the room was assigned
TO my use" In that roam he ex
amiued the affi1avits .bat had
been taken, and made out a list
of half or three-fourths OF the WI :
nesses, and procured interviews
with them. WheI the affidavits
were not, as he supposed suffi-
ciently full, he prepared, or had
prepared. additional interrogato-
,ies, SO as to bring the evidences III
better shape before the returning
board. The most remarkable tes~
timopy which General tiah field 'as
sisted in prepa'inr was that OF
Amy Mitchell, colored woman
whose husband was killed i'll West
Feliciana parish. He prepared 'he
lnterrogatories after u private in
tervlew with her, and her testmo-
nv went before the returning board
10 answer to lnterrogdtoiles- She
had before theu made an affi iavi',
but he thought it was not sufti :
ciently full. Her account of III.
murder was III .cking Indeed, al
most As horrible as the story told
by Eliza Plnkstop. But,it turned
out afterward that the greater pai'
of it was untrue; and before {;
committee OF Congress, when ex
amined and cros,-exatnIned, she
herself Withdrew it, declaring the
&, eater part to be untrue. Hel
testimony is fornd on page All
Documept31, part 3. In that lnuei
room or the custom house he spen
days examining the electionr"per'
of West Fellciau, holding inter
views with the witnesses ant
draughtirg, as be says, "interro-
gatories to draw out more full,
from some Of the witnesses th'
testimony which they had given,i'
brief, and sone of the interroga
tories which subsequently, were ap
pended to-the testimony of thes'
witnesses were OF my sdranghting.
/ The testimony SO revised by Gar
| field went back to the returning
board, aud the resnlt was tha
i West FelicIana, with its Eemo
cratic minority. was rejected. A