Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-09-23
HENDRICKS ON GARFIELD.
, a Terrible Arrangement of the Republican
Leader For His Infamous Part in the Great
Presidential Fraud

: A Terrible Arrangement of the Republican
Leader for His Infamous Part in the Great
Presidential Fraud.
The following is the full text of Gov.
Hendricks great speech at Indianapolis on
Sept. g.:
MI FELLOW CITIZENS: When I ate nv
breakfast this morning I had no thought of
addressing my fellow Democrats and other
cltlzens OF the city of Indianapolis this even
ing. BUT on reading the indianapolis Journal
found that the proprietor of that paper had
caLeo my personal yeracity in question
nave nothing to say to the subordinate writer
OF that paper; choose to hold the proprietor
of that paper responsible for what appears in
it. What shall say to night will be mainly
IN reply to that article. I shall expect the
owner OF that paper, with whom am on per-
morrow morning to see to it that this reply is
as fully reported in that paper for his readers
as MS caIumny OF this morning was. APP
plause.l shall see that copy OF my re-
marks, which submit to you, are presented
70 ehat paper for publication. [ now chai-
1enge, before the citizens of this great city
VINO support that paper, that it shall appear.
lApplause month nearly ago made
speech at Marion, in this state and in the
course OF that speech 1 spoke of the very
questionable connection that James 4. Gar
held, the candidate of the Republican party,
mad with the great Presidential fraud OF
!S16-1. spoke OF his connection as one double
In its character, and worse than that OF
any other man now living. spoke of him in
connection with the preparation of the case at
New Orleans for his party, and in connection
WITH the irauuulent examination OF 1t :it
Washington; and in that double respect
considered him more responsible for the great
Outrage upon the American ballot than any
other living man. lAppiause.I May call your
attention very briefly to the article as it APP
peared in the Journal
g Mr.. Hendricks in his opening speech of
the campaign at Marion, used the following
language referring to his nomination." Then
follows an abstract of my speech that made:
This is specific charge OF corruption
against Gen. Garfield. Assuming, to begin
with, that the election of Hayes was fraudu-
tny1f xsaI, f.,u
Hendricks must know is not only unwarrant-
able but false, he asserts that Gen. Garfield
had more to do with it than any other man.
Proceeding to specify, Mr.. Hendricks asserts
that Gen. Garfield went to New Orleans as a
partisan, without authority of law, as if any
law was necessary to authorize a man to go to
New Orleans. and that while there he took
charge of the returns from West Feliciana
Parish, and in one of the inner rooms of
Packard's Custom house. manipulated the
returns, and prepared affidavit5 and interrog-
snbstantiated, Gen. Garfield would be dis
graced. Unless Mr. Hendricks substan
tiate the charge he is disgraeed. He offered
no proof OF the charge in his Marion speech,
and has offered none since. He can not pro-
duce any. The charge 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 of White Oaks,
N. NJ
If don't this evening substantiate every
material charge l will ask no man to vote
against James A. Garfield. Applause Ev-
cry single charge, the substance of every
Charge will make good to the intelligence
be the jury, and if do, then the Journal has
said in advance that
GARFIELD IS DIsGRACED.
[App1ause.l What did say, gentlemen? I
said that Garfield went to New Orleans imme
diately after the election four years ago; that
he participated in manipulating the evidence
and preparing the case for the Returning
Board and that upon the evidence which he
and others thus prepared the Returning
Board made a return against the men that
elected for the that not elect
ed-that is the charge. L wish to dispose of
witness that the Journal introduces first
and | Will not occupy much of your time in
that task. His name is D. J. NJ. A. Jewett. He
writes a letter from New Mexico. My 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
OF Jewett's, written from some place in New
Mexico. Isn't it remarkable that Jewett in
New Mexico is the only man that can throw
light upon this transaction, which took place
in the presence of the Nation of 4 900 900 of the
people: Where are the other visitors of the
Republican party that Went down and helped
Garfield to do that terrible work of iniquity
at New Orleans? A dozen of them went down,
and they We're closely united in all their bust
ness. The Journal says that produced no
evidence to support the charge. Oh! you had
better read the speech again. In thar speech
l gave the document and the page of the
document where
GARFIELD's OWN OATH CONVICTED HIM
of every charge [ made against him. APP
plause.l First little while about this wit
for the first time. He was down in New Or
leans, and it seems that that was the place
where Republicans of his sort did congregate
This witness says that 50 Gen. Garfield and his
associates conducted themselves in Louisiana
with rare discretion. For example, Gen. Car
field and myself never met in Louisiana. 1t is
manifest that had he desired to exert any in
fluence in the preparation of the Republican
case he would have sought, necessarily, first
of all, my own private office" L don't know
about that. don't know whether he would
have sought him or not; but that letter you
will obs thnf. tu To il,
sentiment and substance that Garfield did not
call upon him while down there; therefore,
he observed great discretion while down
there. That would not question, but l will
read you, gentlemen, from this mans own
This same man that the Journal cites as au-
thority in this case gave his evidence before
the committee composed of Democrats and
Republicans. and in that testimony he gives
the reason why he did not Garfield and
the other visiting statesmen. will read you.
Question-About that time the visit
"Q.-Did you have any thing to do with
them? A.-No, sir; nothing whatever.
"Q.-Why not? Al did not care to.
go. They were members high in the Repub
ncan party, and in the councils of the Nation,
Election Committee, and were cognizant of
all the facts-what was there in the character
of this or any other circumstances which
made repulsion and kept you and these Wis
iting statesmen apart? \. Nothing that 1
know Of but my duties did not bring me into
contact with these gentlemen, we always
had a Coroner's inquest held over US after ev
cry election. care to know as little as posi-
Bile.
80. Mr.. Butler. You purposely avoided
meeting with the visiting statesmen lest you
might know too much of what is going on.
Is that it? A. Without casting any reflections
upon them, yes.''
This witness swears that he avoided know
ing anything that those visiting statesmen
were doing, because he did not want to know
what was going on there, as he would proba-
bly, have to answer under investigation after
ward. So will spend no more time upon that
witness. Now for Mr. GARFIELD himself, and he
gave his testimony before this same commit
tee under oath:
90. Did you visit New Orleans in the month
of November, 1876? A. did.
40. What time in the month did YOU go2 a.
Think it was about the I4th day of November
that arrived at New Orleans
The I4th day of November immediately
after the Presidential election of 1876, and he
was there with John sherman, he was there
with Kelly, of Pennsylvania, and mauy
others whose names I will not delay
you to repeat, and in his testimony he says
that they left New Orleans to return to WASH
ington City the 1st day of December. So
you will observe that James a. garfield was
at New Orleans, reaching there about week
after the Presidential election, and staying
there eighteen days. What did he do while
there? 1 charge, and the journal says if it is