Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-04-08
HON. VIM. Nj. LOWE
Defended by His Friends, who DenOunee
as False the Charges Against Mar
shall SlOss, and Say
They Were Trumped up TO Defeat the
Independent Movement in Alabama,
OF which He is the Head.
From an Appeal Correspondent

NEw York, March 4-The following is
one of the Washington specials TO the TINS
OF to-day. As you published the other -t.-
OF the story, perhaps this will moi bs ani;S-:
The friends of the Hon. William NJ. Lowe,
who is carrying on contest for the seat in
the House now occupied by Joseph Wheeler,
OF the Eighth Alabama district, say that the
charges against Marshal Sloss, recently filed
by Ex-Deputy-Marshal Hewlett with the
department of justice, summary OF which
has been published IN the Times, are false, at
least so lar AS they refer TO Mr.. Lowe, and
that they were made out OF revenge Tor Hew-
let's dismissal from office by Sloss, after the
investigation made by Special Agent Lam
caster. They point to the statements made
in Lancaster's report, which has been sent to
the Senate. He reports that Hewlett charged
IN his accounts Tor transporting one Houston
King, as a guard in various cases, 2l3 miles,
and that he admitted in an affidavit that
King was brakeman ON the rail-
road, and had travelled only $50 miles.
He also reports that Hewlett charged
for Transporting prisoner and his guard 232
miles, and for the prisoners subsistence,
when in fact the prisoner had no guard and
paid his own expenses. Another case SINH
lar to this is reported, and also in which a
man who was on his way home and who paid
all his expenses was put down a guard,
with charges for the service. The facts are
also given in a case where defendants were
carried 247 miles by Hewlett, instead of
taking them before the nearest commissioner
mileage having been charged for them and
their guards on the way home, when they
had paid all their expenses each way. Mr..
Lancaster says: "From the testimony OF
Bone, the commissioner, and Hewlett, it will
be seen that they desire TO shirk the respon-
sibilIty Tor the extraordinary expenses in
CURED in these cases, but the TACT remains
that they responsible, and the unnecessary
fees were manufactured under the appear
aDce of law and complete swiEdle."
Some Importance is attached TO this contro-
versy because of its relation TO the independ-
ent movement in Alabama, of which Mr..
Lowe is the head. His friends predict that
the movement Will rev0lutioniZe the poll
tics OF the State, and look upon him the
only man VIII can organize and lead it. The
report Mr.. Lancaster shows that Marshal
Sloss's office was in very bad condition, and,
while be describes the Objectionable practices
of Hewlett and other deputies he does not
spare the marshal himself. 1t is said by
Mr.. loves fri nds that he has been op-
posed 10 the maladministr alton revealed by
this repori, AMI that his political sense would
have led him to oppose it, if he had no better
motive, for in his position he could not
afford to allow the Federal service in his
district to become disreputable if he could
prevent it.
The most important case mentioned in
Hewletts charges is the one relating to a
seizure of goods in Greenbrier. 1t appears
that after the sheriff had taken the goods
from Hewlett, and after the sheriff had been
arrested, Hewlett wrote to Attorney General
MacVesgh, intimating that District Attorney
Smith was intending to dismiss the case
against the sheriff, and expressing hope
that the district attorney would not ego back
on the deputies" Mr. MacVeagh asked
DistrictAttorney Smith for an explanation.
In his reply Mr.. Smith said: THAT there
was ever any agreement to dismiss the cases
on the 23th instant exists only in the imagin-
alton of Deputy Marshal Hewlett. There
is net the semblance of truth in the state
ment." He added that he intended vigor-
oHsly to prosecute the sheriff and his posse,
because they ought to be punished for the
assault upon the deputies, but also asserted
that the sheriff had already levied upon the
property and put it under lock and key, and
that Hewlett and his companions were tres
passers in the first place. After making what
seems to be very fair explanation of. the
case, the district attorney says: "The trouble ,,
with Hewlett seems to be that he desires TO
be protected in making arbitrary arrests
without warrant, whether right or wrong"
In this case Mr.. Lowe was opposed to the
punishment of the sheriff, taking about the
same ground as that held by the district
attorney, and his friends say that on this
account he gained the ennity of Hewlett. 1t
is also said that Marshal Sloss did not after
ward appoint one of the sberif17s posse a
deputy on Mr.. loves recommendation, but |
did appoint an Independent Democrat who |
had been a peacemaker in the affair. The |
assertion is made, on excellent authority, |
that, although Hewlett was the instigator of |
the prosecution of the sheriff. he could not |
be found when the cases came TO trial, and |
that because OF his ab-ence and the absence |
of the original papers,th defendants had |
to be discharged.
Other charges in which Hewlett attempts |
to implicate Mr.. Lowe, are Indignantly de- |
MED by that gentleman's friends. Although |
the whole controversy seems unimportsnt
outside of Alabama, it has greatly excited |
residents of that State who are in this city, |
and is regarded by many Republicans as an
attempt 10 injure Mr. Lowe and thereby in |
terfere with the success of the Independent |
movement in the State. Il is asserted that !
Mr.. Lowe is now the most formidable adver- |
sary of the Bourbon element in Alabama, |
and that it is expected he will become the |
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