The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-01-11
The Yellow Contestant Black
ems the White Judge.
INSULTS THE GOVERNOR
In His Brief Against Woodland
He Seems Slanderous.
WHAT INDIANA JOHNSON SAYS
The Senate Officials Hope, if the Popu-
lists Hold off According to But
Ter, that They viii Hold
Their Jobs.

Tf was not in the District of Col
umbia limits of Uncle Sans arms, i
don't know that / should write what
am going to write: for / should be
afraid that Judge Ewart would put me
in that cold Asheville Jail for con-
temptwhere my thoughts would freeze.
On the other hand, it may be quite as
well in my absence, to lock up contest
ant Cheatham until Congress adjourns.
In his brief filed against Mr.. Wood
ard (page 357) Cheatham was cross
examining Mr.. Powell as n party to
the following colloquy:
Cheatham: do you not know that
Mr.. Ewart, the chairman, who came
down to investigate these wrongs ire
ferring to the Edgecombe investiga-
ton during the legislature), is the
same one who opposed the Federal
election law in the Fifty-frst Congress
and who said the elections in North
Carolina were fair and do you not
know that if Mr.. Ewart had allowed
a fair and square investigation and
then discovered fraud and had seated
these men that it would have been a
back-handed lick given HIMSELF"
Answer: ''Mr Ewart is Republi-
can like the contestant His one re-
deeming trait is that he voted against
the force bill. Whether so voting
would make him act wrong my limit
ed acquaintance with him does not
permit me to answer.
Cheatham: Have you not heard
that the Republican party in North
Carolina is very much upset ut the ac-
ton of Mr. Ewart and his committee
in taking Democratic witnesses and
relying solely upon their evidence
from whose evidence to make up their
report to the legislature, and do you
not know that it is generally believed
by both Democrats and Republicans
that he allowed these frauds to go by
unnoticed simply for the purpose of
gaining favor with the Democratic
governor of North Carolina; that when
his appointment by the Legislature
should be made that there would be no
antagonism on the part of the govern
or? In other words, that the governor
would commission him the appointee
of the legislature for the western
iudgeship instead of appointing a
Democrat. as he did. Don't you know
that this is the report in North Caro-
lima?
81 can't say what is reported all over
North Carolina. / can only say this,
that four out of five witnesses examin-
ed before the legislative committee
were introduced by the contestants,
who were Republicans. ] had the mis-
fortune to be one of these witnesses.
A majority of them, ] think, but am
not sure, were Republicans.
1t is almost unjust to Judge Ewart
even to quote this libellous stuff a
gainst him THAT saves mel and as to
the honorable governor everybody who
knows Elias Carr knows that this is a
dastardly SANDER.
/ was talking yesterday with Chair
man johnson of Elections Committee
No 9. He is keen thin-bodied blond
made up altogether with the trimness
of a narrow-back mule. He talks at
the rate of about 300 words a minute
making of himself holy terror to the
stenographers of the House. He talk
ed two different ways about his pro-
gramme saying to me at first that UNI
der no conditions would he allow the
order to be changed as laid down on
the list I asked him would the cases
that were in complete shape as are the
North Carolina cases be delayes by
those in which there preliminary
motions had been made. He
then said, the committee would
probably clear the table of the prelimi-
nary motion cases, and then start at
the beginning and go through with the
regular hearing of all. Then finally
he added: "But we shall be bound by
no rules or law: we will change the
places of cases in the event that there
he good grounds for same. / hear"
continued the Indianian, that in the
Cheatham case new evidence is to be
introduced, but the introduction of
new evidence at this stage of the game
is not the thing, since Judge Daniels,
of Committee No. /, and fine tourist,
decided few days ago against it in
his list of cases.
I believe il would interest North
Carolinians to have list of these
election cases, so that they may fol-
low them. The interest in them here
seems to supplant, in way, that of
anything else for the moment. / will
send list III another letter.
Judge Daniels, of New York, has the
first nine cases; johnson, of Indiana,
the next eleven, and Mccall, of Mas
sachusetts, the rest.
One of the Senate officials was tell
ing me yesterday that it was not so
all cock sure that there would be any
change in the personnel of the officers.
He argued this way: If Butler, of
North Carolina, and his Populists car
ry out their policy of neutrality as
announced by Butler, the Republicans
will have only AZ now, and with the
Utah Senators only A, which in either
case vii not be quorum. So that
the Democrats may retain the present
men if they hold off. And he strength
ened this argument by saying that at
the caucus held yesterday by the Re-
publicans for the purpose of making a
slate for officials, they broke up with
out doing anything. So that
it is not among the inn
possibilities that General Cox and
Mr. Peter Wilson will hold their places
for some time yet at least. But it does
seem as if the Republicans would find
some way TO put in their men.