Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-09-30
zen on the cars on my way to Washing.

ten on the cars on my way to Washing.
ton.'
"Q. Written aften you left New Or
leans? A. A considerable portion of it
had written summary of the evidence
before that, but considerable portion OF
the brief was written in pencil on the cars
after I left New Orleans on my way
home
"You see he completes the evidence. He
is the only man that prepares it for West
Feliciana after the evidence had been
turned over to him, and when he had done
that work on his way from New Orleans to
Washington he prepares an argument in
the case. wish to connect directly this
transaction with the duties of the man who
takes the solemn oath to deal fairly. 1t is
your duty as member OF the commission
to deal fairly. The next question is, what
did Garfield know in regard to Louisiana
That we find on page SO3. I say he knew
that Louisiana was Democratic by 5000
majority when he sat in that inner room
and had private conversation with wit
nesses and prepared interrogatories to guide
and control their testimony, when he was
at that work, and when he was writing a
brief to make it appear the other way he
knew that Louisiana had cast Demo
cratic majority OF 5000, and here is his
sworn testimony on that subject:
"'Q. Did you get any idea Of how the
vote OF Louisiana stood from the face of
the returns? A. had all those ideas that
could be got from the newspapers and the
leaders of the different parties. We had,
of course, very full information of that
sort
$50. Presuming that there were not
some parishes to be thrown out by the re-
turning board, it was very clear that the
State had gone for Nichols and Tilden,
was it not? A. 1t was very well under
stood by the time got there, and, indeed,
before I got there, that if 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.
(Applause)
$50. And if every vote sent up was a
legal vote, and some more Republican
votes were not found, it was very clear that
the State had gone for Nichols and Til
den? A. Yes.'
"There is your man, Republicans, that
you propose to place in the chair thai
Washington occupied. "a voice, mo,
never."O 1t will never be done. No man
with record like that did ever take the
chair, and in the kind providence of an
eternal God it will never occur. He knew
by the returns that Tilden for President and
Nichols for governor were elected in the
State of Louisiana, and yet when he knew
that he says when he got to New Orleans
he staid there eighteen days, and all that
he did was to sit in that inner room where
nobody could find him except they passed
from the public hall through another room,
and there alone with poor ignorant wit
nesses heprepared interrogatories, and talked
with them, and that lose interrogatories
and that talk went to the returning board
and furnished the scoundrels of that board
the pretext TO return against the truth that
Tilden was eaten in Louisiana.
"Now, gentleman, this man that thus
came and conducted himself at the city Of
New Orleans, and helped to prepare the
case, and helped to get false return from
false and perjured returning board; and
he came on his way North as far as Bell.
aire and was overtaken by the Lightning
informing him and his co-conspirators as
he sat In the palace car of the decision
that they had procured in the city of New
Orleans. / know how a lawyer feels when
his case has been submitted. l know the
anxiety which drives sleep and quiet away
WI a life or property may depend upon
the result made by the jury. But surely l
never expressed myself in regard to that
anxiety, as Garfield did when he said they
eft New Orleans, very anxious about the
result, and when the result came all anxiety
disappeared. His work was completed
and an honest return was defeated. He
came on to Washington, and then what dc
you think he did when there was a bill
proposed in Congress-the bill that did
finally pass-to appoint commission,
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and five members of the Senate and five
members of the supreme court to hold a
conference upon this great issue? When
that bill was pending Garfield got up and
said, no, it must not be; and here are the
reasons that he gave. Let me give you, in
his own words-if can, it is in very fine
print and difficult to read. Speaking OF
the bill then pending in Congress he says
this was on the twenty fifth of January
he got back to Washington by the second
of December, and the bill came up for con-
sideration in the House whether this COM
mission should be appointed to pass upon
the right of President and Vice-President,
and Garfield opposing this bill uses this
language: 1t assumes the right of Con-
gress to 60 down into the colleges and in
quire into all the acts and facts connected
with their work. 1t assumes the right ol
Congress to go down into the States to re-
view the act of every officer, to open every
ballot-box and to examine every ballot
cast by 100000 of Americans That was
Garfeld's objection to the bill-that if il
did mass and that these fifteen men an.