The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1880-08-29
Gnrneld's Fart In .tho Electoral
Fraud.

Ali the world knows. for there is not
An intelligent man in the United States
Of any party who does not know that
the rilden electors in Louisiana re-
oeived Of the votes cast from 5000 to
5000 majority. Mr.. Garfield who was
ono OF those who went to New Orleans
in November. 1876, knew this to be tho
fact. 1 quote what Senator TrumbuIl
said upon this point as to facts stated
upon his personal knowledge:
Il was present when the returns from
every parish in that State was brought
70 New Orleans, and according to those
returns. before they were doctored and
altered, made by the Instruments of the
Republican party themselves. the Til
den electors had a majority ranging
from 5000 to 1000 votes. General
Garfield was In New Orleans. He knew
these returns fairly elected Mr.. Tilden
President. He. stood by when that in
famous Returning Board. without law
and by fraud, rejected the votes Of the
people. He went TO Washington and
sat upon the Commission of Fifteen.
After these returns had been fraudu-
lenty made, aud when the question
came up before the Commission whether
the returns being fraudulent they could
go behind them, I appeared before
that Commission. We were required to
state in writing the reason why the vote
Of Louisiana should not be given to Mr..
Hayes, and We put down in writing that
We were prepared to prove that q ma
iority Of the free votes OF Louisiana
were given to the Tilden electors. We
offered to Prove that by n conspiracy
entered into by tho Governor OF that
State, William Pitt Kellogg, who ap-
pointed every officer that controlled the
elections in tie State. that by "A conspir-
acy entered into by him and the Return
ing Board it was agreed that whatever
the vote might be they would give the
certificate of election to the Hayes cleo
tors. Garfield sat on that Commission.
He said: We won't let you ProYs it.
You are concluded by the returns Asa
member Of the Electoral Cc.ar.ission,
sworn to try ~judfcially ard determine
the right of the case. whether Tilden
and Hendricks or Hayes aud Wheeler
had the rightful majority. he refused to
try aud examine the very question and
the only question they were appointed
by law to try and determine, viz:
Whether a majority Of the votes OF
Louisiana were cast for the Tilden cleo
tors or for tho Hayes electors. Cor
tainly there was not so big q fool in
either House Of Congress. as not to
know that Wells Returning Board Ger.
tifcate had been given to the Hayes
electors. The only question tho Com
mission was to try was whether that
certificate was true or false. Garfield
knew il was false, and BIO refused to try
the question. II he believed 1t was
true, be would have heard evidence TO
prove IL truo. For in his speech in
the House upon the Electoral Commits.
sion bill he asserted again and again
that II the bill passed, the Commission
would 60 behind the returns to try the
question Of fact upon the merits. Gar
field. knowing the returns we're false, in
violation Of bis public speech, before
the bill passed, voted to sustain the
false and fraudulent returns.
tor Doolittle's speech at Indianapolis.