Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-01-06
THE GREAT STEAL.
The Enterprise and Chronicle on
Louisiana Matters.
JOURNALISTIC IGNORANCE OF CURRENT po-
LITlCM HISTORY.
Jim AndersOn's Version of the
whole Business.

Jim ANDERSON seHsAOn ~
whole Business.
Mr.. Anderson having been severely as
saulted by our Virginia City contsmpora-
| ries, he is accorded space to reply, as
| follows:
The Virginia Chronicle copied our article
| on East Feliciana, and took occasion to
sheer at the ignorance of the Enterprise
on Louisiana matters. The editor Of the
latter apparently lost his temper, and in
| stead Of endeavoring to controvert the
| statement, resorted to the old device Of the
| Administration organs by declaring the
writer to be unworthy IT belief, and that
he is the champion liar OF America, o
| sobriquet we obtained, by the way, because
| we were one Of half o dozen Republican
| witnesses before the Potter Committee who
made an effort to tell the truth. The En-
| terprise evidently knows little about Louis
lana matters, and endeavors to conceal its
| ignorance by resorting to tactics better
| calculated for the columns OF a police
journal. The article was undoubtedly
written by q man in his cups, and one who
can lay no claim to the title Of gentleman
or a decent journalist.
THE ASSERTIONS OF THE ENTERPRISE.
The Enterprise says: 1.-THE reputation
| which he carried to Louisiana was that Of
a social monster, a Matchmaker, and q man
who never told the truth"
The writer entered the employ of the
Government in 1867, when but 81 years of
age, and remained almost continuously
until 1877, and it is little credit to q party,
~ uhfah fba Enfarprico olaipac 10 ho q
shining light, that it harbored "a social
monster and blackmailer" during so many
years. We went to Louisiana at the insti.
cation OF a Republican member of Con-
gress, who evidently took little stock in
our Democracy.
We first took an active part in Louisiana
politics in 1874, and in August Of that year
the New Orleans Democrat, the organ OF
the Democratic party, said
1.-The fight against Pinchback in the
Fourth Ward is engineered by James E.
Anderson. He is a respectable carpet
bagger.' Il n 4
About August 10, 1876, the New Orleans
Republican, the organ Of the party in
Louisiana, in announcing our appointment
as Supervisor oyEast Feliciana, said:
"Mr. Anderson is an intelligent, cult
waited gentleman, whose appointment will
give satisfaction to both parties in East
Feliciana."
In December, 1877, John Sherman, after
his return from Louisiana, declared in
the United States Senate Chamber that
the character of the writer had never been
impeached. We commend his speech to
the careful attention of the editor of the
Enterprise.
One Of Kellogg's staunchest henchmen
and trusted advisers was John E. Leet,
who held 3 s., 1000 position under Kellogg's
government. If the Enterprise editor will
turn to page 922 of the Potter investiga-
ton, he will find this passage.
Question (by the Chairman)-"Who was
it that said that if Anderson was killed he
would be a irst-class martyr? 2"
Answer-"Mr. Kellogg. He first told
me that Anderson would help the party by
going up there and getting killed, as he
had the decentest record of any Republi-
can in the State, and the decenter the
record the better the martyr, and the more
capital could be made cut of it on the
Northern stump"
On March 6, 1877, P. B. Conn, editor of
the Steubenville (O.) Herald, and a per-
sonal friend Of Hayes, wrote him as toll
lows
"We have known for a series Of years
the bearer Of this letter, Mr.. James E. |
Anderson, as a Journalist, and so far as
our personal knowledge extends can in
dorse him as a worthy young man and a
staunch Republican. \ \ He was
in a great measure instrumental in saving
US the State"
In March, just after the inauguration,
Hayes wrote Evarts /:
give this gentleman a consulship in q
warm climate. This i q special case"
was the especial case" owing to our be-
ing an unmitigated ssoundrel, or a desire
on the part Of Mr.. HAYES to furnish a
square meal for cannihals !?
John NJ. Harlan came to New Orleans
with the McVeigh Commission, and Stan
ley Mathews, United States Senator from
ONO, forwarded us the following letter of
CINCINNATI, March 20, 1877.
General John NJ. Harlan - Dear Sir
This Will be presented 70 you by Mr. James
T.. Anderson, who may desire to commune
cate with you conidentially.
The confidential interviews between Har-
and the writer related to the manner in
which Louisiana was stolen. The result
was that the State Government was turned
TO the Democrats, and Harlan made a
Of the Supreme Bench of the
United States.
On May IA, 1877, Stanley Mathews wrote
/:
THE circumstance in which Mr.. Ander-
son has been placed, and in which he has
been compelled to act a very difficult part,
are such as to give him avery strong claim
upon the administration"
II we simply did our duty in Louisiana,
What strong claim did we have on the adj
Illustration
The Enterprise continues:
was then openly, and has always
ince secretly been a Democrat. The repu-
alton ne brought from Louisiana was such
Is the attributes noted above would cul-
inmate in after a course of Lonisiana
raining"
Openly a Democrat is good, 1t ia
possible the Louisiana Republi-
ANS would have given the writer absolute
'ontrol OF the election machinery Of a strip
territory as large as the State of Delaware.
WITH such important issues at stake, had
ne been openly a Democrat" The truth
8, we never voted for a Democratin our life.
he charge is silly, and is in keeping with
he balderdash contained in the whole ar
icle.
Admitting, for arguments sake, that the
Of the Enterprise be true, and
the writer is a ''social monster and a
'lackmailer.' II the charge be true, what
1as 'ames Casey, ex-Collector of the port
! New Orleans, and a brother-in-law of
irant, under whom we held a position for
ears What were the Republican leaders
Louisiana, who sent us to East Felici- :
mar What were the Republican mem
ers OF the Louisiana delegation in Con- ,
ress' VINO backed the writer and urged his
to q consulate in the spring Of
SITf What is John NJ. Harlan, now a ,
lember Of the Supreme Bench of the
lnltea States, and one of Mcveagh's Com
iission, who, after w had shown him that f,
ne State was stolen for Hayes, urged l
warts to send us to South America? What :
Stanley Mathews, ex-United States SEN :
tor and brother-in-law OF Hayes, who. /
ter getting possession Of the proofs OF I
he conspiracy, demanded that we should c