Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-02-10
A BOLD, BAD FORGERY.
That's What Senator Mcpherson Calls
the Ballot Box Paper.

the Ballot Box Paper.
SENATOR sroCKBRIDGE AND REPRESENTATIVE
MOREY ALSO BEFORE THE HOUSE INvEsrIaAr-
ING CoMMIrTEE-wooD SAID IT WAS INTENDED
TO ''CATCH" FORAKER.
The House committee on the Ohio ballot box
forgery resumed its sessions this morning and
called Senator Stockbridge of Michigan to the
stand. He was shown exhibit A (the forged
paper) and denied having signed it or knowing
anything about ballot box bill or contract
He added that the forged signature of his
name was not good imitation of his true
signature.
BOLD. BAD FORGERY.
Senator Mcpherson of New Jersey, the next
witness, said he had number of occupations,
but had no ballot box industry among them.
He also knew nothing of the forged paper and
declared his signature a bold forgery and bad
one at that The witness having referred to
the ballot box matter as a conspiracy, Mr..
Turner asked if he knew anything of con-
sPiracy IN that connection He replied that
when gentleman had abundant opportunity
to ascertain the falsity of such charge but
fastened instead to give it to the world it
might be regarded as a conspiracy.
Gov. Foraker inquired if it would not depend
on the circumstances under which the paper
support its character.
SENATOR M'PHERsoN's FIRST INTENTION.
Senator Mcpherson replied that as the paper,
if genuine, would degrade and ruin public men
and properly so, they should have been consult
ed, to do sowhen it was possible. by travelling four
or i've miles, His first impulse on reading the
publication had been to have every man con-
nected with it arrested within forty-eight
hours
Gov. Foraker-Hadu't you better do that yet,
Senator! The courts are still open.
Senator McPherson-I don't know; Halstead
got down In the dirt and rolled over in his
humiliation and attempted to remedy the
wrong, which changed the situation somewhat
A TALK WITH MIR. HALsTEAD
James W. O'Neil of Lebanon. Ohio, testified
as to conversation he had with Mr. Halstead
respecting the forgery when the latter said he
was not the man between the mill stones; that
he was disposed to hang the paper up in the
window 30 that everybody might see it. Wit
ness was convinced that Mr.. Halstead believed
the paper to be genuine. When witness called
attention to Senator Shermans denial Mr.. Hal
stead replied that he would not mention any
republican names, but he hoped, for reasons
that went beyond state lines and we're AS broad
as the nation itself. that the gentlemen would
not deny the genuineness of their signatures.
REPRESENTATIVE MoREY OF OHIO
testified that he had told Mr.. Halstead tina. he
doubted the commences of James E. Camp
bells signature. Mr.. Halstead had insisted
the signatures were all right and had shown
him the Photographic copy of the paper to
convince him, besides referring to contract
1000" as an ably drawn document The col
lateral facts, Mr.. Halstead argued, established
the genuineness of Campbells signature. How
ever, if it appeared otherwise. his plain duty
would be to make the truth known. In the
end he convinced witness that the paper was
genuine.
INTENDED TO CATCH FORAKER BUT NOT HAL
STEAD.
John L. Pau of Cincinnati told of a CONVEX
sation he had with Wood after his release from
prison. Wood had remarked that nobody
whose name was on the paper had had HIM ar
rested and that he had to stand the brunt of
the whole business In answer to witness Wood
had said that Gov. Foraker and Mr.. Halstead
believed the paper to be genuine. Witness
told this to Mr.. Halstead. who said of course
he believed so. Wood had further
said to witness that they were contented
with Gov. Foraker and never expected to
trap any more; that they never expected to
trap Halstead. Wood said that he Wood had
been made the innocent tool to trap Foraker
He didn't say who had used him as a tool. but
when witness suggested John Mclean and T.
c. Campbell he acknowledged that he wasn't
far off.
To Mr.. Turner witness said he believed that
Woods exact words were: ITO catch Foraker"
Wood had outlined the plan to be to have For
aker publish the paper; then come out and
prove it to be forgery and crush Foraker.
Wood said he didn't see that until the thing
was over, and he was the innocent tool. for he
had no intention of helping to annihilate For
aker.
In answer to further questioning on the point
by Mr.. Turner and Mr.. Wilson the witness said
that his understanding of the matter was that
Wood had failed to get an original paper for
MIR. Mclean and then had drawn up forged
copy FROM memory, which he had supplied to
Gov. Foraker. Mr. Mclean knew this $50
witness gathered from what Wood said) and
was just waiting for Gov. Foraker to use 1t to
expose the forgery.
MADDEN CRoss-ExAMINED.
Lewis NJ. MADDEN was recalled for cross
examination. To Mr.. Grosvenor he said that
on June 90 he had told Gov Foraker that he
believed there was written evidence that Camp
bell Butterworth and Mckinley were inan-
cially interested in the ballot box bill. Had
not testified before as to his visit to Mrs Wood
because he had not been asked. There
were gentlemen at the table who knew
he had paid Mrs. Wood money and
he expected to be examined about it.
The witness was about to explain that he had
no notice to conceal payments of money to Mrs.
Wood but Mr.. Grosvenor cut him off on the
ground that his statement was not responsive
to the question. This led to
LITTLE sPAT
between Mr.. GrosvenOr and the chairman who
insisted that the witness had a right to make
his statement. The committee was appealed
to and finally Mr.. Grosvenor was allowed to
proceed with the cross-examlnaton. He asked
If the statement by responsible man, while
the republican party was demoralized by the
publication Of the retraction, that he had seen
TN original paper year before would not have
stopped the stampede.
The witness replied that in his judgment it
would not for after MIR. Halstead had manfuly
admitted that the paper was a forgery, no
matter how many genuine articles he pub
lished he could not make people believe them.
HADDENs INTERVIEW WITH HALsrEAD.
Mr.. Grosvenor referred to Mr. Halstead's
statement that MADDEN had told him he knew
nothing about the paper. Witness told his
Yersinn of the intarYieM Mr. Hnlsfead hah