The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-01-08
ANDERsON's vERACHrY.

East Feliciana parish, is now, and for
Eureka Sentinel. In an article pub
lished over his signature, relating to
the Louisiana election, he incurred the
displeasure of the Virginia Enterprise,
which, for lack OF proof to coutrovert
his assertions, declare that Anderson
is the champion liar OF America, and
that ''the reputation which he carried
10 Louisina was that of a social monster,
a blackmailer, and man who never
told the truth" Anderson replied to
these charges, in Tuesdays Sentinel.
He says he went to Louisiana at the
instigation of a Republican member OF
Congress, and was in the employ of the
Government almost continuously from
1867 to 1877, and says that it is but
little credit to the party of which the
Enterprise is shining light, that it
harbored social monster and black
mailer" during SO many years. Auder-
son quotes from the New Orleans Re-
publican OF August 10Th, 1876, which
alluded to him when he was appointed
Supervisor of East Feliciana, as San in
telligent, cultivated gentleman, whose
appointment will give satisfaction to
both parties Kellogg, now United
States Senator from Louisiana, wanted
John f. Leet, who held 5000 Office
under Kellogg's government, to send
Anderson to East Felicana, as it would
Lelp the party to have him killed, as
he had the most decent record of any
Republican in the State. This evil
dence, sworn to by Leet, is on page 90
OF the Potter Investigation. Anderson
further states that in 1877, when John
Sherman returned from Louisiana, he
declared in the United States Senate
that his (Anderson's) character had
never been impeached, and that Stan
ley Mathews and even Hayes himself
recommended him to Secretary Evarts
as worthy young man, who deserved
an Office.
To the charge of the Enterprise, that
Anderson is Democrat in disguise, he
replies that he never voted Demo
cratic ticket in his life, AMI if he had
been Democrat the Republicans would
not have given him absolute control of
election machinery of a strip of terrific
ny as large as the State of Delaware,
with important issues at stake, A1-
derson asserts that he can prove:
"First-That the East Feliciana bull
dosers were organized and commanded
by Frank Powers, the Republican Tax
Collector.
Second-That Powers led the parties
in 1874 and 1875 who burned the negro
cabins in East and West Feliciana.
Third-The only murder committed
in East Feliciana in 1876 was the shoot
ing of Democrat in Jackson, in July,
by P. G. Butler, who was afterwards
selected by the Republicans as their
clerk for the writer.
Fourth-That no votes were cast in
the parish, owing to the conspiracy
among the Republican leaders.
Fifth-That the writer himself re-
Trained from voting at the solicitation
of the men in question.
Sixth--That the majority against
Charles E. Nash, Republican candidate
for Congress, was over 5000, and that
IN order to keep the writer (who was
personally friendly to Nash) in harness,
the Returning Board threw out this
5000 majority, and returned Nash by
"a majority"
Anderson was instrumental in giving
the vote of Louisiana to Hayes, and
the fact that he kept secret the frauds
perpetated against the majority of the
voters of the State, while the Return
ing Board was fixing up the returns to
count in men who were not elected,
proves tolerably conclusive that he is,
or was, too much of partisan to be
intrusted with the office of Supervisor
of Election in Louisiana or elsewhere.
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