Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1880-10-06

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Journal. Irepeatlt is TO John g. New'
owner ofthe paper, and the Chairman
of the Republican Central Committee
of Indiana. 1t isJohn c. New That
shall brand if he does mol place my an
swer as p omlnent1y in his paper 20
morrow morning as the article III the
Jot nal this morning.
GARFIELD IN A SECRET ROOM.
Where was this room in the Custom
House? | said this was an inner room,
ID propose 10 prove that by Garfield
L;mseif.
o. Where did you converse with her
that is a negro woman, Emily Mitchell:
AIN a private Office in the Custom
House.
O.-One of Governor Kellogg's
ooms? A.-No, sir; in one OF Mr..
Packard's ROOMS in the Custom House.
Q.-Who was there beside you twos
Al don't think there was anybody
else present when she was there.
O.-Who brought her to the room 7
Al can't say; sombody brought hel
there. | think she had little chill in
her arms. She sat down and l asked
her TO tell me The story of her husbands
death that all I wanted 10 know was
the exact truh.
O.-Was there a door6eeper 10 the
room ? Al think there was nobody
by at all.
Q.-But was there a doorkeeper out
side the door? A.---That | don't know.
Q.-Do you remember that there was
doorkeepcr for that room? A.-That
door communicated with another room;
there was no door into the hall l think
that door communicated with the hall.
Was il an inner room or not, gentle
men THIS is what Garfield swears to.
The Journal says it is not true. That
"a between Garfield and The Journal, ,and
between them would not know which
to believe.
Q.-So she dld go from hall into
that other room before she could get
INTO the room where you were? A
Yes: take it that the question oil the
inner room Is a settled question.
Q.-Was that door leading from The
outer door into this open or shut? A.
don't know.
Q.-Who occupied the outer room at
The time 4? A.-There were several
Custom House clerks who had desks
behind a sort of railing.
A very little more, gentlemen, about
these rooms.
ON that inner room was lhele
anybody beside yourself? A.-Nobody'
He was asked whether there was
ANYBODY in that inner room but him l
self and he says no. No, that there
was no inner room, but there was no.
body in the inner room but himself.
"Some Of the other men whe were
getting up some statements about other
Parishes came in there, but thatroOm was
assigned TO me-" There you have 1t in
an 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 l
will now proceed to prove.
GARFIELD DRILLING NEGROES IN PER-
juicy.
So the question is, what did he do in
the inner room? and that question was
asked him under oath.
Q-What did you do? y i took all
those papers, commencing with the pro-
test and read them carefully and made
a careful brief Of their contents, giving
the summary Of each witness in my own
way, as if | were lawyer IN the case.
There is Garfield at New Orleans
the man that 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 was cut off. and receiving the EVIL
dence that turned the Parish OF West
Felciana and examining them as though
he were lawyer in the case, and so he
swears:
When had completed that | felt n
great deal of anxiety to see the men who
had testified, if | could.
1t was not enough to read the evidence
as it had been fixed up for tie negroes
and the whites, but it WAS more than
that.
confess l felt a good deal OF surprise
and astonishment at the revelations
contained IN these documents. That l
went there with not little apprehen~
sion that there must be a good deal oi
living in papers of both sides connected
with the election. made inquiry and
found that considerable number OF The
witnesses were in the city. l made out
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a list ofperhaps one halfor three iourths
of the names OF the witnesses whose
testimony had examined, aud inquired
for them and procured interviews with
them. | sat down with them and asked
them to tell me ia their own way the
stories of their relation 10 the election.
cannot name all the witnesses With
whom conversed, but some o! them l
remember distinctly. Mrs. Amy Mitchell
(I shall have something 10 say about her
directly), the young woman whose hus'
band had been killed during the progress
of the registry of election. | also re-