The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1880-09-21
Hendricks On Garfield.

The Vice-President De Jure
Dissects General Garfield
as a Visiting States
man.
Out of His Own Mouth the Repub-
liCan Candidate Convicted of
Manipulating Election Re-
turns.
Mr.. Hendricks, in q speech at Ma
rion, Ind on the 12th OF August last
having reviewed tue connection of Gen
Garfield, with the Louisiana frauds o
1876, has since been violently assailet
for that speech by the local journals and
more recently by Secretary Sherman
On Monday last the Indianapolis Jour.
nal deliberately challenged Mr.. Hen
bricks to substantlate the imputation:
put by him in his Marion speech upor
General Garfield, admitting their fata
force, If they could be substantiated, in
the following words:
"This is a specific charge of corrup.
tion against General Garfield. Assum-
ing, to begin with, that the election ol
Hayes was fraudulent, an assumption
which, as a lawyer, Mr. Hendricks mus,
know is not only unwarrantahle but
false. be asserts that General Garfield
had more to do soith 1t than any other
man. Proceeding to specify, Mr.. Hen
bricks asserts that General Garfield went
to New Orleans as q partisan, 'scithout
authority of la,o,' as II any law were
necessary 10 authorize man to go to
New Orleans, and that while there be
took charge of the returns from West
Feliciana Parish, and in one of the IN
ner rooms of Packard's Custom- House,
manipulated the returns and prepared
a1Sdavits and interrogatori.s TO make
out case
"lF THIS COULD BE sUBSTAN-
TIATED GENERAL GARFIELD
WOULD BE DISGRACED,"
Mr.. Hendricks promptly accepted the
challenge and on Monday evening made
An elaborate speech on the subject OF
General Garfield's connection with the
Louisiana frauds Slips of his speech
we're furnished to the Indianapolis Jour-
nal, which, after the manner of the New
York Tribune, refused to print it, grace.
fully alIudiug to the speech as "mock
thunder to rouse the rabble," and also
as causing "the atmosphere Of the wig
wan to shrink away before the foul
breath IL evoked" and to Mr.. Hen
bricks himself as SO psrboiled lobster
This paper, be it remembered, Is owned
and conducted by Mr.. John C. New,
Chairman Of the Republican, Central
Committee of Indiana.
Mr.. Hendricks made General Gar
fields own testimony before Congress
sional committee his text. He showed
that on the 18th Of November, 1876
General Garfield was in New Orleans
with John Sherman, Mr.. Kelley, of Penn.
sylvanla, and others, and that he stayed
there about eighteen days. "What.
said Mr. Hendricks, "dld he do while
there2 ! charge, aud the Journal says
if it is supported General Garfield is 9
disgrace0 mani charge that he occu-
pied an inner room Of the Custom.
House, assigned to him and him alone
and in that room he saw witnesses, black
and white, of Louisiana, and be con
versed with them alone. and when their
testimony was not made out satisfacto.
rily to him be suggested interrogatories
that should be put to them, and those
lnterrogatories went to the Returning
Board, and that Returning Board made
a report against the men that were elec.
ted. That is what charge. l say to
you l will make it plain to you to.nigh,
by his own evidence. What does the
Journal say to mep That / have fur
nished no respectable evidence, when u
have REFERRED by page and document to
the sworn testimony of Garfield himself
What did he do? First, gentlemen.
said that they distributed parishes among
these visiting statesmen, and that in the
distribution of the parishes for invest!.
CATION and manipulation the parish o.
West Feliciana fell to James A. Garfield
I will read what he swore to, and after
tonight it shall not be before the intelli
gence o,'Indiana what Hendricks said. but
the question now shall be what Garfield
said. (Applause In bis answer to q
question be says: "Thereupon, in order
tn make our work OF examination and
our knowledge of the case as full as
possible, the suggestion was adopted
that all the testimony relating to one
parish be given to one man, and the tes-
timony relating to another parish should
be given to another man. Among the
parishes that were contested were the
two parishes of Feliciana, and believe
that Mr.. Sherman assigned these par.
ishes to Mr.. Parker and myself, saying
that we could divide them between us
as we chose. suggested to Mr.. Parker
to take his choice. He took East F..
liciana; l took West Feliciana.' Laugh.
ter
40. What did you take it fori"
II will give the answer to that preg
nant question, and when it is answered
the Journal says that The man that the
Republicans have upon their banner fol
candidate is a disgraced man. ZAP.
plsuse "A. mean by that to say
that I took the copies Of all the officia
papers which we're delivered to the Re.
turning Board touching the election il
West Feliciana and for convenience O
examining the papers, as / did not re-
side at the St. Charles Hotel. occupied
room in the Custom H ouse, in the cor
ner Of the building (Laughing.)
"I don't know whose room il was
| it was a room not very much used;
think it was one Of the private Offices
perhaps. of the Collector himself Yol
recollect who was the Collector, don
your 1t was Packard that was running
for Governor and tina. could not hold BIZ
Office, although he got a Thousand NOR,