The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-10-01
Senator Hendricks Great Speech.
Scathfn% Exposure or GarGcId's Par
I'm the Presidential Fraud.
GARFIELD's STAR CHAMBER.

Scafhfug Exposure or fsarGcId's Part
in the Presidential Fraud.
GARFIEL.D'S STAR CHAMBER.
There is Garfield at New Oreans-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 were cut off, and receiving the
witnesses that turned the parish of West Fc-
liciana, and examining them as though he
were Il lawyer in the case.
THE FALSE TESTIMONY GARFIELD COSCOCTED
Now, notice what he has sworn to That
he occupied that room. and that when the teS-
timony was all handed to him relating to the
parish of West Feliciana he examined il and
the testimony and he made out list of one
half or twO-thrdS of the witnesses, and he
sent for them one by one. He examined
them and when their testimony was not as
full as he desired. he prepared additional in
terrOgatoTies, which went, in some cases at
least, before the returning board. This comes
really very close around Garfield. The sum
mary in the case OF West Feliciana was pre-
pared by me- \ little further about what
he did
GARFIELD'S CHIRF WITNESS.
Now, gentlemen, / will turn over a page
and see what the ease of Amy Mitchell was
turning the leaves of book1 She first made
an affidavit in the custom house, where she
was examined privately by Mr.. Garfield
1 ildt dIilGdNll WAS nDf Iuil enough lie pre-
pared additional intcrTOgatOries to he pro-
pounded to her, and she answered those in
tcrrOgatOricS, and in her testimony before
this same committee she afterwards herself
swore that there was no truth in the state
ment given in response to Garfield'S intcrrOg-
atOrieS. In answer to a question propound-
ed by Governor Cox, of Ohio, who is a Re
publican, Amy Mitchell said-She repeated
her direct tcStimOny-that every statement
contained in the affidavit was false that she
iii Il p
but said what they told her to say. Her teS-
timOny also showed that she had been trained
in the custom house to testify before the COM
mittce. | don't say that Garfield was present
when she sASore TO the interrOgatOricS, but he
prepared the interTOgatOrieS that were an
swcred, and he prepared the interrogatorieS
after he had an interview with that cOlOred
woman, when there was no person besides
themselves present and the same woman
comes before the committee of Democrats
and Republicans, and in that testimony, given
under oath and under the test of a cross eX-
animation by the Republican members of the
committee, she says there is not a word of
truth in the testimony which she gave in an
swer to C'ariield's questions. [ApplauSc.
GARFIELD KNEW THAT 'TII.DF.N HAD CARI,It.D
LOUISIANA.
The next question is what did Garfield
know in regard to Louisiana ? That we find
on page S03. | say lie 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 tcStino-
ny, when he was at that work and when he
was writing brief tO make il apDcar the
other way, he knew that Louisiana had cast
Democratic majority of 5000. and here is
his sworn testimony on that subject:
q. Did you get any idea how the vote Of I.oufsi-
ana stood from the face OF the returns d? A. I had
all those ideas that could be got from the neyvspa-
pers and the leaders OF the different rortics. w.
ffraa III 9 f1fstFz
@ PTesuminS that there wore not some parishes
to oe thrown out by tho returning board. it was
very clear that the state had gone for Nichols and
Tildeu, it nUt2 a. 1t was very well under.
stood by the time got there, and indeed before l
got there that II nothing but the face OF the re-
turns was to be considered, and if every vote sent
UP was to be treated as legal vote, Mr.. TiIdcn
q. And if every vote sent up was a legal vote.
and some more republican votes were not found,
cholls and Tilden =? \. Yes
\ TAINTED CANDIDATE
There is your man, republicans, that You
propose to place in the chair that Washing
ton occupied a voice ''No, neyer'I Ii
VIII never he done. No man with record
like that did ever take that chair, and i'm the
KIND providence of an eternal God it will
never occur. He knew by the returns that
Tilden for president and Nichols for .ovcT-D-
or were elected in the state of Louisiana. and
yet when he knew that, lac says when he got
to New Orleans he STAYED there eiobteeu
q
inner room where nobody could find him. eX-
cept they passed from the public hall through
another room and there alone with poor. iu-
norant Witnesses he prepared interTogatoricS
and talked with them, and those interrogation
les and that talk went to the returning board
and furnished the ScOundrelS of that board
the preteXt to return against the truth that
Tilden was beaten i'm Louisiana.
GARFIELD on THE ELECTORAL Co1pussIoT. =.
His work was completed, and an honest
return was defeated. He came on to Wash.
ington, and then what do you think he did
when there was a bill proposed in congress
the bill that did finally pasS-to appoint a
commission composed of five members of the
house and five members of the senate and
five members of the supreme court to hold
a conference upon this great issue When
thaJ bill was pending, Garfield got up and
said mo, it must not be" and here are
the reasons that he gave Let me give them
in his own words, if l can it is very fine
print and difficult to read. Speaking OF, the
bill then pending III congress lie saws (this
was on the 25tn of January he got back e
Washington by the I'd of December, and the
bill came up for consideration III the house rs
to whether this commission should be ap
pointed to pass upon the right of president
or vice president Garfield OppOSing). This
is what General Garfield said. "rhiS bill
assumes the right Of congress TO 20 down in
to the colleges and inquire into all the acts
and facts connected with their work. 1t as,
SumeS the right OF congress to 20 down into
the states to review the act of every officer
to open every ballot cast by 1000, 600 oi
Americans That was Garfields objection
to the bili-that if it did pass and these fif-
teen men were appointed under the law, il
would be their duty to 60 backof all techni
calities and returns, and to pass upon tho
real facts of the case TO go into the ballot
box and see how the votes were, and 10 de
eide the case upon the real truth. And af
ter that, when the bill was passed and ht
became one of the fifteen, he voted every
time that they should not open the door e
investigate. bat that the law closed the door
lie said that kellocg's certificate of the re
turning board was stronger than law and
the constitution and the Judgment Of con-
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