Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-10

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peal to the record now to prove that the
Democracy have not been fair and emf
nently liberal with the Union soldiers.
We challenge them to dispute the fore
going.
His Hide Hung on the Fence.
An incident has just occurred in the
Indiana campaign which has greatly dis
concerted the Republicans, and over
which the Democrats are very much ami
mated and encouraged. In speech the
other night Mr.. Hendricks-whose good
opinion of Garfield the Republicans have
been gleefully republishing- bitterly ar
raigned the DeGolyer statesman for his
part in the electoral fraud. Mr.. Hen
bricks said it was peculiarly disreputa-
ble because Garfield, alone of the
visiting statesmen" dared to sit as
juryman on the case which he
had prejudged and the evidence in which
he had helped to doctor. He further
charged that Garfield while in New Or
leans 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 aflidavits and interrogatories to
make out a case. The Indianapolis
Journal, the organ of its party, edited by
the chairman of the state central COM
mittee, a neighbor of Mr.. Hendricks,
assailed his declaration as unwarrantable
and untrue, and said if it could he sub
stantiated Garfield "would be dis
graced."
Thus challenged in an issue of veracity,
Mr.. Hendricks warmed to his work.
Though not booked to speak in
Indianapolis that night, he sought and
was cheerfully accorded the opportunity,
and such flaying as he gave Garfield no
Christian statesman has received in this
year of grace. He cited the testimony
given before the committee inves-
tigating the electoral fraud, page by
page, and he demonstrated from
Garield's own admission the truth
of the accusation which he had
made against him. First Garfield
swore that, in the distribution of the tes-
timony relating to the contested parishes,
1 took West Feliciana." Then, 1 oc-
cupied room in the custom house in the
corner Of the building;;" " this room had
no door into the hall, it communicated
with another rOom;" "there was no.
body in the inner room but myself"
there he swOre that he examined the evil
dence in the case, rs if he were a lawyer,
and then he says-not finding their evil
dence strong enough
l draughted some interrogatOrics to
draw out moro fully from some of the wit
nesses the testimony which they had given
rather in brief, and some of the interrOga-
tories which subsequently were appended
to the testimony of these witnesses.
lie admitted that he talked with Geo.
Swayzee and fixed up interrogatories to
draw out his evidence, and SO he did in
the case of Amy Mitchell, and she an
swered these interrogatories to suit, but
in her testimony before the same COM
mittee she afterwards herself suore that
there ,oas 40 truth in the statement girc, in
response to Gdrfeld's intcrrogatorics. In
answer to question propounded by ex
Gov. Cox, of Ohio, who is a Republican,
Amy Mitchell said that every statement
contained in the affidavit was false
that she did not say anything because
she knew it, but said ,chat they told her to
say. Her testimony also showed that
she had been trained in the custom house
to testify before the ecommittee. On his way
home Garfield prepared brief in behalf
of the Republican side of the case, based
on the perjured testimony he had helped
to fix up; all the time knowing, rs he
testified, that eff nothing but the face
of the returns was to be considered, and
if every vote sent up was to be treated
as legal vote, Mr.. Tilden was ahead ;"
g and if every vote sent up was legal
vote, and some moro Republican votes
were not found, it was very clear that
the state had gone for Nichols and Til
den."
And yet this man who had prejudged
the case, who had been lawyer in it,
who had helped to fabricate it, had the
effrontery to take seat in the
jury box and swear that he would try it
fairly. And after he had argued that the
commission, if appointed, must
90 behind the face of the returns, he
voted not to 80 behind these which he
knew would be found to he rotten and
1t is no wonder that the indianapolis |
paper which had challenged Hendricks
to his proof failed next morning to pub
lish a word of It or a line of editorial
OH his speech, which proved
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