Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-09-15


did he do in the inner room? and what ques-
tion was he asked under oath.
O. What did you do?
A. took all those papers, commencing with the
protest, and then read them carefully and made
careful brief OF their contents, giving the summary
Of each witness in my own way, as would If were
a 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 and the Judgment Of the Ameri-
can people was cut off, and receiving the evil
dence that turned the, parish of West Fell
ciana, and examining them as though he were
lawyer in the case, and SO he swesrs:
When had completed that, felt great deal Of
1t was not enough to read the evidence as It had
been fixed up for the negroes and the whites. but 1t
was more than that. confess felt good deal of
tanned in these documents That went there with
not q little apprehension that there must be good
deal of lying in the papers of both sides connected
~a ssoon and found that
were in the city. made out list
Of perhaps one-half or three-fourths of the
names ns, OF l9e Witnesses whose testimony l had
views with them. sat down with them and asked
them to tell me in their way the stories Of their
relation to the election cannot name all these wit
nesses with whom conyersed, but some Of them
remember distinctly. Mrs. Amy Mitchell, the young
woman whose husband had been killed during The
progress OF the registry or election. also remem-
Der Judge Dual, parish Judge, whom examined
In the same way, to the result of the examination.
AS to the result of the examination of course it
entirely unofficial, 1t was conversation OF my own
with these Witnesses drafted some interrogatories
to draw out more fully from some Of the Witnesses
the testimony which they had given rather in brief,
and some OF the Undergraduates which subsequently
were appended to the testimony Of these Witnesses.
Now, notice what he has sworn to: That he
Oc0nniad that rOnnn and that. vvhoY, the feeti.
mony was all handed to him relating to the
parish OF West Feliciana, he examined it and
the testimony, and he made outs list of one
half or two-thirds of the witnesses and he sent
for them one by one. He examined them, and
when their testimony Was not as full as he de-
sired. he prepared additional interrogation
lea, which went, in some cases at least, before
the returning board. This comes really very
close around the Journal and Garfield.
The summary in the testimony In the case Of West
Fehciana was prepared by me.
A little further about what he did:
Some OF these afadavits notice in the West
Fehciana case were made after you arrived In New
Orleans. Did you have anything to do with them
yourself In taking them?
A. Nothing. except that in some instances, as
have already related, I prepared interrogatorles.
The next question is, what did Garfield do in
page 8O3. saw that he knew that Louisiana
was Democratic by 5000 majority when he
sat in that inner room and had private CONVEX
sation with the witnesses, and prepared inter-
rogatories to guide and control their testimony !;
when he was at work, and when he was writing
a brief to make it appear the other way, he
knew Louisiana had cast Democratic ma
GRITTY of 5000, and here is his sworn testi-
mony on that subject:
@. Did you get any idea how the vote Of Louisi-
ana stood from the returns7
A. had all those ideas that could be got from
Tho M and If
We had had, OF course very full information of that
sort.
Q. Presenting that there were not some parishes
to be thrown out by the returning BOARD it very
clear that the State had gone for Nichols and Tiden,
was it not?
A. It was we'll understood by the time got there
considered and if every vote sent up to be treated
as lega' vote, Mr. Tilden was ahead.
Q. And If every vote sent up was q legal VOTE and
some more Republican votes were not found it was
very clear that the State had gone for Nichols and
Tllden?
A.. Yes.
There is your man, Republicans, that you
propose to place in the chair that Washington
occupied. "a voice, "No, never.") It will
never be done. No man with a record like that
did ever take that chair and in the kind prov
idence of an eternal God it will never occur.
He knew by the returns that Tilden for Presi-
dent and Nichols for governor were elected in
the State of Louisiana, and yet when he knew
that, he says when he got to New Orleans he
staid there eighteen days, and all that he did
room. where nobody could find him except
they passed. from the public hall through
another room, and there alone, with poor, ig-
norant witnesses, he prepared interrogatories,
and talked with them, and that those interrog-
atories and that talk went to the returning
board and furnished the scoundrels of that
board the pretext to return against the truth
that Til6An u hoQfan n DO
suppose that this man was to return to Wash
ington and become juror and decide whether
Tilden or Hayes were elected, and to decide be-
tween man and man whether Hendricks or
Wheeler was electe1 Vice President?
He says. on page 1888:
ion then made. don't think that any of our party
had heard of it for We left in great anxiety as to what
the result would be.
Then little further down he says:
We went away from that meeting, and within per-
haps three hours from that time, at least by the first
train after that we left New Orleans. know there
was great anxiety among us all as to what the result
would be, and we had no word or hint Of it until we
had passed Bellaire on Tuesday morning, when q
dispatch was received, addressed to some Of our
number, perhaps to Senator Sherman, giving us the
first inhmation OF the conclusions OF the returning
board.
And what do you, fair-minded men, that
have from time to time taken your seats upon
the jurors box, what do you think of the man
that is to come on to Washington to try the
cause? Being anxious in his mind as he leaves
New Orleans, and all the way from that city
until he reached Bellaire, until he reaches
Ohio, he is in great state of anxiety, and
then dispatch comes at lightning speed. 1.-THE
work is DONE" "The work is done," and there
is no anxiety thence on forever! The perjury
and the forgery is committed The people of
the United States have been beaten in their
might and majesty and in their glorious sover-
eighty at the ballot box. They have been
beaten like the old lion that had his paws en-
tangled in the meshes of the net. The great
people of the United States are beaten, and a
part of the work was done in that room, and
forever from this time Infamous room, in the
custom house, and this is the evidence, gentle
men.
When saw that the Journal said that i'll did
not make it good I was disgraced, and it did
then Garfield was disgraced, then gentlemen.
as soon as l saw that, longed to see You and
speak to you with more earnestness and feeling
than ever longed to before. II have failed
in any one of the questions presented by the
Journal, know it not. have appealed to no
witnesses except Garfield himself, and by Gen.
Garfield is Garfield this night disgraced. ZAP
plause.) You fair-minded Republicans, you
gentlemen that love your country better than
You do the Journal, better than you love Gar
field, better than you love COM
binations OF party, I appeal to you,
now, by this test. Publicly I have said that
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