Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1880-09-22

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repeat il is with John G. New,
owner of the paper, and the Chair
man of the Republican Central
Committee of Indiana. And IL is
John c. New that shall brand as
an untrue neighbor If be does not
place my answer as prominently in
his paper tomorrow morning as
the article in the Journal this morn
ing.
Where was this room in the
Custom House! | said this was
an inner room, aud propose to
prove il by Garfield, himself.
Q.-Whsrs did you converse with her. that Is
the negro woman, ANY MITCHELL Where did
your conversation with her take place An
private ofhce N the Custom House
Q-Who was there he-iies you two, Al
don't think there vas anybody else present when
she Was there,
Q.-who brourh, her 20 the room, A.-Ican't
ssy, somebody bro lsht her there and I think she
had Little child m her arms. She sat down. and
asked her % tell me tho story OF her husbands
death, with al the particulars and told her that
al wanted 70 know was the exact truth about
Q-was there a door-keeper 20 the room
Al think there Was nobody by AZ all
Q.-But VAS there . do0r-keepeI outside the
door THAT don't know now.
Q.-Do you remember that there was O door
keeper FOR that room A.-That door oOmmuni-
catci with another roorn; there was no door into
the haP; think that door communicated with
the neA' room, Which communicated With the
Sail"
Was it an inner room or not,
gentlemen This is what Garfield
swesrs 10. aud the Journal says il
is not true. That is between Gar
field and the Journal, and between
them ! would not know which to
believe. Applause.
Q.-so she had 20 so from the hall into that
other room before she would Get into the RON
where you where A.-Yes.
take it that the question of the
inner room is a settled question.
Q.-was tia; door leading from the outer nom
into this open OF shut, Al don't know.
Q--Who occupied the outer room at the time
A-There vere several custom house clerks who
had desks behind a sort Of railing"
A very little more, gentlemen,
about these rooms.
Q--In that inner room uas there anybody be-
siie yourself NOBODY.
He is asked whether there was
anybody in that inner room but
himself, and he says not, that there
was no inner room, but that there
was nobody in the inner room but
himself.
Occasionally some Of the men who were get
ting ND statements about other Parishes came II
there hut Tho room was assigned 20 me-"
There you have it, an inner room
reached only by passing through
another room from the public hall.
and that inner room was assigned
70 James A. Garfield, and be occu-
pied il and received the witnesses
there, as | will now proceed to
prove. 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 Al took al those
uape7s. commencing with the protest. and read
them carefully and made a careful brief OF their
contents. giving = summary Of each witness in
nv own way, a. ! would If were lawyer in the
case.
That is Garfield at New Orleans
the man that asks TO preside in
the chief Office Of this great Ma
ton there is Garfield sitting in
that inner room in the Custom
House. where the light Of day ami
the Judgment of the American peo-
pie were cut of, receiving the wit
nesses that turned the Parish Of
West Felicians and examining them
as though he we're lawyer in the
case, and 50 he swears:
AID when lad completed that I felt great
deal Of anxiety % Sc he men who had testified,
u ] could
II was not enough 10 read the
evidence as it had been fixed up
for the negroes and the whites, but
il was more than that.
I confess ielt good deal Of surprise and
I as-onlEhmeut a. The revelations contained IN
I those documents. That went there with not a
I little apprehension that there must be a good
eal Of living in the papers Of both sides connect
a with the election. / made inquiry and found
that Z considerable number Of these were in the
. city. l made out a list Of perhaps one-half OF
threc-fourths OF the names Of the witnesses whose
testimony / had examined. and ] inquired for
them and procured interviews with them I sat
down With them and asked them 60 tell me in
their own way the stOrc. Of their relations 70 the
I elections. can not name all the witnesses with
/ whom ] c0nversed, but some Of them / remem-
F. htT very distinctly One Mrs. Amy Mitchell q
Young woman whose husband had been killed
during the progress Of registration or election
/ also remember Judge Dula, a Parish Judge
I whom I examined in the same way. As the re.
suit 81 the examination, Of course II entirely
. unofficial; ~ was conversation Of my own with
those witnesses, | draughted some intorrogato
rcs 20 draw ont more fully from some Of the wit.
. Noses the testimony which they had given rather
Ia brief and some Of the InterTogatOries which
subsequently, were appended 20 the testimony Of
these witnesses were Of my drsughting."
What do you think of that
Now, notice just what he has
sworn to. That he occupied tina,
room, and that when the testimony
was all handed to him relating "a
the Parish Of West Feliciana, he
examined it, and he made out q
list of one-half or three-fourths Of
the witnesses, and he sent for then
one by one. He examined them
and when their testimony was moi
as full as he desired, he prepar.
ed additional interrogatories, and
those additional interrogstories
went, in some cases before the Re.
turning Board.
This comes really very close up.
on the Journal and Garfield.
"Thc summary in the testimony in tho case O
West Feliciana was prepared BY me-"
A little further about what he
did: