Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-06

W ASHlNGTON, E6DEudEl O.-4u6 AAOuSc
committee investigating the Ohio ballot-box
forgery this morning continued the exam
ination OF Governor Campbell. In answer
to Governor Foraker, witness said he had
not predicated his assertion made in a
speech that Foraker was an infamous scoun-
drel upon the Luce letter, but it was an an
swer to FOraker's charge that be was a
party to a million-dollar steal. He (wit-
ness) had said that any man who charged
another with stealing a million dollars
when be didn't know what he was talking
about was an infamous seoundrel.
Witness said he never saw one of the
Wood ballot boxes except one in Colonel
7. C. Campbells Office, and one brought to
him in Washington, and he never travelled
with a ballot box in his life. He never
spoke to the President about the ballot-box
bill To Mr.. Struble, a member of the
committee, witness said that he introduced
the ballot-box bill altogether upon I. c.
Campbell's request. He thought that Mr..
Campbell should have a show for his box.
He (witness) was the only Democratic rep
resentative in Southern Ohio, and had been
and was still willing to father the bill.
his friend, and be was ready at all times to
help his friends.
AS TO MURAT HALsTEAD.
He knew Mr.. Halstead by sight and had
known his father. His paper had at times
assailed witness heartily, unctuously and
with great deal of zest and apparent pleas
ure to itself, whenever be (witness) ran for
Congress. In 1886 a Middletown CORES
pondent of the Commercial Gazette charged
witness with bOodling-a crime-and be
called upon Mr.. Halstead, who said he had
not seen the publication and would right it
editorially next morning. No other Repub-
lican paper had ever made any attack upon
his integrity. To Governor Foraker wit
ness said that if he spoke to Colonel Harper
about paper which would vindicate him
he probably referred to the Luce letter, but
hedid not remember any such conversation.
This concluded Governor Campells ex-
animation and Lewis G. Bernard was placed
on the stand. He said that in October last
he was member of the Democratic Cam
paign Committee. In the early part of
October, in the committee room, be was
handed copy Of the Luce letter by Frank
j. Kelley, Secretary of the committee
Witness Kept the letter for a day or two, and
then brought it to Washington, where he
came on business. He showed it to John
r. Mclean. In his return he met Mr..
Meeker, showed him the letter, and at his
request allowed him to make copv. Wit
ness then returned his copy to Mr.. Kelley.
FORAKER ASKS A QUESTION.
Governor Foraker wished to know why
witness had not shown the letter to Gov
ernor Campbell instead of Mr.. Mclean.
Witness replied that Mr.. Mclean was his
friend, his name had been connected with
the ballot box and he was interested in the |
matter. Mr.. Bernard said that as a mem |
Der of the Democratic committee OF Hamil-
ton county he put various people to work to
try and find Wood, but without avail. The
search was not begun until after the re-
traction was published.
Mrs. Elizabeth Wood, wife of K. G.
Woob, was next called. She said her first
knowledge of her husbands connection
with the ballot-box matter was when he
came home one day and told her that James
Foraker and Mr.. Hadden wanted him to try
for appointment as Smoke Inspector, and
that he could get it if be furnished certain
papers to Governor Foraker. She had ad- |
vised her husband to have nothing to do |
with the business. |
He had sent and received several tele-
grams to and from Governor Foraker. Dur
ing her husbands absence Mr.. Hadden |
called. That was on October 81 She had |
received letter from her husband telling |
her to call upon Hadden for money, apd |
she did so. He was not at home, SO she |
(Mrs, Wood left word for him to call at her |
house and be did SO.
A VALUABLE NOTE.
She presented the letter with an inclosed |
note to Hadden, who read it, and said It |
called for $50, which he paid her at once
He then advised her to put all such letters in |
the fire, and burned his note. She had saved |
the letter from her husband, however, and |
produced it. GrosveDor read it, as follows: |
WASHINGTON, October Is
want you to see Hadden at 8. S. Davis
Office and let me know by telegraph if he will |
do what 1 wrote him, and send by express l /
hope you understood my telegram to-day in an
swer to yours. DON'T want to see Campbell |
here, and don't know that want to see him at
all. He is in with Jim Campbell. will return
to Cincinnati If advised to do so by Hadden
after he has seen His Royal Highness up at
Columbus. But if he thinks best to stay here
until after election will do SO. 1 know that /
Tom Campbell wants an affidavit that will help
Jim Campbell in his fight against Foraker.
Mr.. GrosvernOr asked for full details of |
the payment of money to her husband by
Haddeu. Witness replied that she, about
October 16 or II, received $50 from Hadden
81 his Office, 500 of which was for her hus-
band and $50 for herself Then there was
the payment of $50 made at her husbands
house, and again she received $40 from him
the night of Woods arrest.
ONLY A POLITICAL AFFAIR.
Hadden told her they would see that
Wood was taken care of; that his arrest was
only political affair, and that he would be
given permanent employment. He hardly
thought he could get the smoke inspector-
ship, but still he would be taken care of.
whether Foraker was elected or not. She
had written TO Governor Foraker that
Woods letters and kilograms, which she
held, had been seen by no one, and that he
could have them for the asking.
Here Governor Foraker stated that he
had never received the letter. and the Wit
ness responded that Mr.. Hadden had told
her that he had never received it. The let
tiers and kilograms were placed in LAWYER
hands and he took them to Mr.. |
7. c. Campbell. The last named gentleman
called twice at her house and wanted n
know where her husband was, but she did
not tell him. Hadden desired her to saw
nothing about the conversations he had had
with her.
Governor Foraker said he knew nothing
except in the most general wav about the
payments made TO Mrs. Wood by Hadden,
and that Radden could tell his story when
be was recalled.
DECEIVED BY THE DOCUMENT.
John @. Brown, State Treasurer OF Ohio,
The next witness, said that at UrichsYille
Junction, September 13, Governor Foraker
had shown him the forged paper, after tell
ing of the ballot box bill. Witness said he
could not use the paper in the campaign,
and the Governor replied that that was the
trouble. He had gotten more than he
wanted. Witness took it for a genuine
paper. -
Alexander Caine, Of the Ohio State Au-
iitor's Office, testified to a conversation on
the train with Governor Foraker September