Year: 1878

He Denies That He is Fugitive From


South Carolina, and That lie Has Of


tered to Resign.


Harrisburg Special aug. 26) to CINCINNATI


Enquirer.


The following is the substance of an inter-
view had with Senator Patterson, which will
appear in the Patriot tomorrow. The Senator,
who had been paying frequent visits to this
city, not at all disturbed by the reports
that he was wanted in South Carolina to-
morrow on the charge of bribery preferred
against him. He was emphatic in his denial
that he had been seeking to avoid arrest, ard
did not believe that Hampton had issued
requisition for him, but that if he had he was
in blissful ignorance of it. 1t had been circu-
lated several weeks since, and out of curiosity
one of his friends had communicated with the
authorities at Columbia with Il view of ascer-
tanning the truthfulness of the statements pub
lished. To this reply received that
! nothing was known of such action.


slip shown the senator from the Wash
ington Post, stating that an officer having the
alleged requisition in his possession, had board
ed train at Baltimore on which the Senator
was travelling, but failed to apprehend him
| through ruse of friend of the senator. The
| same item alleged that Senator Patterson
fully aware of the existence of the requisition
and keeping dark in consequence The



| gin in purely imaginative mind, as he remem-
| bers nothing of the circumstances. He further
| said that he had been accustomed to these
| alleged acquisitions, and that they were becom-
| ing monotonous. When he crossed from one
State to another he awoke next morning to find
out that he had fled because of requisition
| from the governor of South Carolina. This was
his experience in Pennsylvania, Maryland and
New Jersey; and, as he intended going to New
| York soon, he would not be surprised to hear
that he had left this State because of another
requisition. He had been to Atlantic City, he
| said, for two weeks and after his departure
| learned that detective, who had been on his
track for many days, had suddenly discovered
his habitation, in consequence of which he
sought more secure quarters.


| Patterson ridiculed the statement in the
| Washington Post that he had made a PROPOSE
tion to resign his seat in the United States Sen
| ate provided he were granted immunity from
arrest on the charge of bribery preferred
against him. He strongly denied that if he
| made this sacrifice he would have abdicated in
favor of a Democrat when it would have been
advantageous to the party. He referred to the
| struggle over the admission of Senator Butler,
| of South Carolina, and Kellogg of Louisiana.
The reason he gave for remaining in the North
| was that his health, which had been much i'm
paired, did not justify him in going to a hot
climate such prevails in South Carolina.
He explained that he did not remain in Wash
lnguOn long at a ulune because OIL the lHlpOrtu-
mites of oftice-hunters, whom he could not
serve, however much he might be inclined to
do them favors, owing to his unpleasant rela-
tions with the occupant of the White House.


AS to the political situation in South Caroli-
na he predicted that the Democrats would
make clean sweep-elect the State ticket
carry the legislature and triumph in all the
Congressional districts. Revolutions like this
were to be expected, but there would be a more
equal division in the South in the future.