The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1881-12-03

Washington Republican and Gorham and
that kind of people talked.

GETTING PERSONAL
| Portei-i'id AVu say Blaine was wicke
man?
PrisOner-Yes; Lcciuse he was usin
President Garfield, who was cd man an
KIND man, hu' a weak politician Garfiel
luSt sold himSel body and soul, to Blaine
tial was ma General Grant himself sal,
N his letter denouncing Garfield for sellin
himself o's' to Biaiue
i'orter-Did yDu say Yesterday YOU di,
! desire the removal Of Secretary Blaine
f.1soatr-i a,d not. aud "; can not fin,
It ii r,c"~d. I insist row mon your find
ing II on record. | va It 10 Iasten some
thing onto you. I'm good man as Vol
are.
Porter-I know you think so.
Prisoner (angrily) and the public
will think SO, too.
Porier--W Was your motive for demandir,
blaines resignation because he had said t.
| You on the saturday preceding never 1,
speak to him again on the Paris Consul
| ship?
Prisoner (excitedly)-I told YOU that had
nothing to do with the Paris Consulate.
want 10 ram that into you, and put il down
deep Laugh er | am talking now about
National politics and not about u miserable lie
oflice, and if you would try to get your
brains to take that in it would be bett.-r. |
am not disappointed office seeker.
WON CRAFTY THEIR THIRST
In the urse of further cross-examina-
tion The prisoner said, in relation 10 the
time of the murder, "The Deity seemed TO be
on my side and every one else agaist me.
but there Is great deal better feeling to
ward me row than there was some three or
tour weeks ago Some of these bitter
crank papers have been toning down won
derfnlly for the last three or four weeks.
What they want is a change of heart They
want conversion; they want new ideas about
the Presidents removal. Nothing but a
change of heart will satisfy their diabolical
thirst for blood. 1t is not likely the Deity
will crafty them in their thirst for blood.
They begin to see it too, and they will see it
more and more"
The prisoner having expressed belief
that The Diety projected him from the day
he shot the President to this day, Porter
SAID, 1T depends more on whether the jury
believes you"
The prisOner-That is exactly what the
Jury Is here to pass upon. Whether the
Deity and did the act, or whether | did it
on my own personal account. And | tel
you further. | expect there will be an act uf
God 10 protect me, if il is necessary, from
any kind OF violence, either hanging or
shooting The prisoner asserted his act
SsiNeu tIle from dnOIner war.
Pprter-There would have been war now
but for you?
The prisOner-I do not pretend the war
was immediate. but do say emphatcaly
(and here he began TO declaim in a dramatic
manner and in the style of as ump sDeaker)
that the bitterness in the Republican party
was deepening hour by hour, and that by
two or three years, at least the Nation
would have been in fl ,me OF war; In the
4. Il, -,
dis>enSions ceased. For weeks and weeks
heart and brain, SO National. centered on tie
sick man at the White House;
at least, (and here the speaker lowered his
voice 80 a. 10 he almost unintelligible) when
he went the way of all flesh and the Nation
was in mourning That is paragraph from
a speech wanted to make two weeks ago"
he continued. re-uming his natural tone,
and apparently we'll satisfied with his effort.
II mes in very pertinent'y here and am
glad had chance to deliver it,
A SACRED SUBJECT.
Counsel asked the prisoner the necessity
for requesting General Sherman to send
troops tO the Jail To protect him for having
obeyed the Deity. Al would have been
shot ard hung a hundred times if it had
not been for the troops at the Jail
z Any harm in that? A-That is a
matter Tor the law to pass upon. (lmpatient-
ly) viii not have any more conversation
upon this sacred subject. You are making
llght OF serious matter and will no talk
ab nut il.
Going back to the letters, Porter read that
in which the prisoner stated Garfeld's NOM
nation. election and ''iemuval' were the
acts OF God, and then asked: Who nomin-
ated him.? A.-The Chicago Convention.
Q-Was that inspired?
The prisoner hesItated and seemed about
to dodge the question, when Porter stopped
him with an impatient, Now, now, nowl"
A. mnckingly)-NOw, now. now,
thought Grant or Blaine would be nomin-
ated, and when Garfield was nominated on
the thirty-sixth ballot it was an act nf God.
The facts surrounding his election would
sustain the position it was an act of God.
and the facts surrounding his removal
would sustain the same position.
The prisoner complained of being IA
tigued saying he was not used to speaking
five hours at a time and the Court ad-
journed.