Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1880-08-03

Q.-Did you make memorandum at the
timer M
A.-.Yes.
Q.--And knew the parties PERFECTLY
Ayes.
Q.-How do you lind that written nows
A.-"Henry q. Walker" 1t would be
called, / should say. -
Q.-Has or has not the "a been changed
to &c" by adding line to its -
At has. tse - ~
Q.-Whether or not you find the original
"C." still upon the paper, so IL can be
clearly seen and Identified without the aid
of glassl
Alt looks so to me.
Q.AHow was 1t changed?
Al should suppose 1t was changed by
making an additional pen mark down.
Q.-Does It or not appear upon lbs face
clearly
Ayes, sir.
Q.-The top of the pen mark commenc-
inc with the bottom. of the &C." and ex-
tending down through the loop, making a
Sc" OF It?
Ayes, sir; | called the attention OF
the Council 10 the fact at the time.
Q.-You called the attention OF the Coun-
as IL appeared before them, was for Henry
q. WdIterP
Al called the attention OF Councillor
Foster to 1t, and he examined II with me
Q.-whe,her or not IL appears on the
face OF this paper that IL was written with
different ink from what the original Henry
c. Walker was written with?
A.-YeS, should say so.
Q-nas or not that return been changed
since you saw It here on the eighth day OF
December, by changing the &c" into a
&C.?
Ayes, il has.
BIZ NJ. Cook;
Q.-would that have affected the result
in any way;
Al am not certain whether, alone, II
would have affected the result Of that
office.
BIZ Mr.. Strom:
of the vote for Henry G. Walker, as
il now appears, had been thrown out upon
the ground that it appeared upon the re-
turu for "Heary Q. Walker" what differ
ence wouldst have made in the aggregate
vote which he received:
A.-Seventy votes.
u-whether or not Won communicated
this fact 10 any person or To the oxford
Denoerdi'
Al sent II To the oxford D,Iioeraf
Q.-Rcad 10 the committee the article in
that paper which refers to the name OF
Henry {, HdlkeS!
A.-"The town OF Hebron gives Henry
c. Walker. candidate FOR Commissioner
Scycuty.two votes. Instead of Henry Il.
Walker
OF understand YOU To say yuu called
the attention OF john Is. Foster, one Of the
Council. To- the condition Of that return Al
thai time?
Al did.
Q-Dld he make any remark abodt 4,
that YOU remember.
A. lie asked me whether 1t MAS the
Republican or Fusion candidate, saying
tina; he had not examined the returns and
did not know the parties.
Odd you tell him!
Al told him that IL was for the Fusion
candidate, that he was the Fusion candi-
date.
$50 that fact was understood after
that by him:
Al told him..
Q.-Is there ans other fact You know In
relation To tina, Identical matter, on either
side, affecting 1t in any way? II so, state
il 10 the committee,
Al do not know of anything now.
Q-Iou have no personal knowledge by
whom the change was made:
Al have not.
BIZ Wr Iagdiis
ODD you call the attention of any
other member OF the Council 10 the "C"
in that name:
Al do not think did.
Q-Where was this!
An the Council Room.
Any others OF the Council present:
A-Therc were two or three; l think
that Mr.. Brown was present and ] think
Mr.. Monroe was present. They were not
doing any business, II was not a session
OF the Council; but there were two or
three Councillors aside from Mr.. Foster;
I do not know but Mr.. Chase was In the
Council Room part of the time.
Q.-were they within hearing, and lis
teniug TO your conversation!
Al do not know that they were; Ar.
Foster and sat down at the Council table,
and he cot these returns and sat dowsl. by
me anu We tAiitucu tuch toectHtii uS
passing them 70 me.
Q-Do the same remarks apply 10 the
return from Brownheld? did you call any
body's attention 10 that return except Mr..
Fosters?
. A-No, do not think did.
Q.-To any person outside Of the Coun-
Gil:
Al mentioned the fact outside.
OF mean there was no other person
to whom you showed IL!
Al think not.
BY Mr.. HI:
Q.-what time in the season was il you
were there!
A.-The eighth of December, Monday
evening.
By VI. Ingalls,
U.-Was the Governor present:
A.-No; ] should say not.
No honest man can vote to sustain a
party or the men who countenanced or
assisted in such fraudulent action. Yet
every man who votes the Fusion ticket
does Just that thing.
Since writing the above, we have re-
ceiyed the following additional testimony
to prove the falsity of the ''defense."
1t is letter from the Town Clerk Of
Hebron, who made out the return, and
who, it viii be seen, declares positively
that the return was altered after it left
his hands.
EAST HEBRON, July 2s, 1880.
GEO. ID. BIsBEE, esq,
Dsar Sir :-Ifeceived by mail copy Of
Report OF the Joint Select Committee to
inquire into the condition of the Election
Returns of Sept. s, 1879, &c.-for which
nlaase accent my thanks | WAS much