Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1880-10-06
A Thrilling Exposure.
The Darkest Hour in the His
tory of the Presidential
Steal.
GOV. HENDRICKS RECENT SPEECH AT
INDIANAPOLIS.

ncctlOu That James n. OaIhelu, the
candidate of the Republican party, had
with the great Presidential fraud OF
1851. spoke Of his connection as
one double in It's character, and worse
than that of any other man now LIVING
| spoke of him in connection with the
rreparation Of lie case at New Orleans
for his party, and IN connection with the
fraudulent examination Of it at Wash
inclon: and IN that double respect ]
considered him more responsible Tor the
great outrage upon the American ballot
than any other living man. May | call
your attention very briefly to an article
as git appeared in the indianapolis
Journal of this morning.
Mr.. Hendricks, in his opening speech
of The campaign at Marion, used the
following language referring to bis
| (Garfeld's) nomination.
| Then follows an abstract of The
speech | made.
This IS a specific charge Of corruption
against General Garfield. Assuming to
begin with, that the election of Hayes
was fraudulent, an assumption which.
as a lawyer, Mr.. Hendricks must know
is not only unwarrantable but false
He asserts that General Garfield had
more TO do with 1t than any other man.
Proceeding TO specify, Mr.. Hendricks
asserts that General Garfield went to
| New Orleans as a partisan, "wlthoul
authority Of law" as if any law were
necessary 10 authorize a man to 90 10
New Orleans, and tnat while there he
took cha, ge of the returns from Wcsl
Feliciana parish, and I'm one OF the
inner rooms of Parkard's Custom
House." manipulated the returns, and
prepared aflijavlts and interrogatories
to make case. If this could be sub
stantiated General Garfield ,could be dis
qraced. Unless Mr.. Hendricks can
substantiate the charge he is dls9raced.
He offered no proof Of the charge in bis
Marion speech, and has offered none
since. He can not produce any. The
charse is unsupported by any evidence
worthy of belief. On this point we call
attention to the following letter, which
We have Just received from D. j. NJ. A.
Jewett, formerly Of New Orleans, now
White Oaks, n. N.
III don't this evening substantlate
every material charge l will ask no
man to vote against James A. Garfield.
Every single charge, 1 VIII make good
10 the intelligence of this great audience
tonight, and you shall be the jury. and
lifI do, then The Journal has said in ad-
vance that Gal6eld IS disgraced. What
did say, gentlemen? l said that Gar
field went 20 New Orleans Immediately
after the election four years ago; that he
participated IN manipulating the evil
dence and preparing the case for the
Returning Board. and that upon the
evidence which he and others thus pre-
pared the Returning Board made a re-
turn against the men that were elected
for the men tkat were not elcctcd-tha'
is the charge.
A WITNESS DISPOSED OF.
Iwish TO dispose Of one witness thai
the Journal introduces first, and l will
not occupy much ofyOur time in that
task. His name Is D. J. NJ. n. Jewett
He writes a letter from New Mexico.
Nv speech was made here in the central
part OF Indiana a good while ago, and
no response is made upon any OF these
questions by the Journal until now, anc
is suggested upon this letter Of Jewetts,
written from some place in New Mexico
isn't it remarkable that can throw llgh'
upon this transaction. which took place
in the presence OF the Nation OF 45,OOO,
900 of the people? Where are the othel
visitors of the Republican party tha
went down and helped Garfield TO dc
that terrible work of iniqulty at New
Orleans? A dozen Of them went down
and thew were closely united in all theil
businss. The Journal says that l pro-
duced no evidence 10 support the charge
Oh! YOU had better read the speech
gave the document and the page OF the
document where GarGeld's own oath
convicted him of every charge L made
against him. Fist little while a6ou
this witness. beg your pardon he Il
not heard of for the first time. lie was
down in New Orleans, and 1t seems tha
was the place where Republicans OF biz
sort did congregate. This witness says
General Garfield and his associate
conducted themselves in Louisiana will
rare discretion. For example, General
Garfield and myself never much in
Louisiana, 1t is manifest that had h'
desired to exert any influence in tn
preparation of the Republican case b
would have sought necessarily, first o
all, my own private office.
1 don't know about that. l don
know whether he would have sougf
HIM or not; but IN that letter you wi
: observe that Jewett undertakes to sa
\ in sentiment and substance that Gal
field did call upon HIM while dow
there. That l would not question, ,bu
r l will read you, gentlemen, from thi
, mans own testimony before the Con
mittee of Congress. This same ma
that the Journal cites as authority