Part 17

Michal Hahn State Registrar Superintendent Mint A. J. Dumont Chairman Republican State Com. Inspector Custom House J. P. McArdie Clerk to Republican State Com. Clerk Custom House W. P. Kellogg Governor United States Senate L. J. Souer Kellogg's Agent to Buy Mem. of Leg. Appraiser Custom House W. G. Lane Kellogg's Agent to Buy Mem. U. S. Commissioner of Leg. Circuit Court, La. S. B. Packard Candidate for Governor Consul to Liverpool Geo. L. Smith Candidate for Congress Collector New Orleans James Lewis Police Commissioner, N. O. Naval Officer Jack Wharton Adjutant-General of Louisiana United States Marshal A. S. Badger General of State Militia Postmaster, N. O., $3500; now Collec. H. S. Campbell Chief of Affidavit Factory United States Attorney, Wyoming H. Conquest Clark Kellogg's Secretary (knew of forgery of Electoral Certificates) Private Secretary to Commissioner Internal Revenue Wm. F. Loan Chief of Police and Supervisor of Fifteenth Ward, N. O. Inspector Tobacco Internal Revenue W. L. McMillan Canvassed State for Hayes Pension Agent New Orleans, now Postmaster

ELECTORS.

_Names._ _Political Employment _Office Held Now._ in 1876._

W. P. Kellogg Elector at Large United States Senator J. Henri Burch Elector at Large State Senator Peter Joseph Elector Clerk Custom House L. A. Sheldon Elector Counsel for John Sherman Morris Marks Elector Collector Internal Revenue A. B. Levisee Elector Special Agent Treasury Department O. H. Brewster Elector Surveyor-General

SUPERVISORS AND PERSONS CONNECTED WITH THE ELECTION

_Names._ _Political Employment in 1876._ _Office Held Now._

M. J. Grady Supervisor at Ouachita Deputy Collector Internal Revenue Jno. H. Dinkgrave Manager at Ouachita Legislature H. C. C. Astwood Manager at Ouachita Deputy United States Marshal (knew Garfield) W. R. Hardy District Attorney at Inspector Custom House Ouachita Henry Smith Sheriff of East Feliciana Laborer Custom House Samuel Chapman Sheriff of East Feliciana Laborer Custom House Jas. E. Anderson Supervisor of East Feliciana Declined Consulship to Funchal C. L. Ferguson Supervisor of De Soto Captain Night Watch Custom House J. E. Scott Supervisor of Claiborne Money Order Postoffice, N. O. B. W. Woodruff Supervisor of Rapides Box Clerk Postoffice, N. O. L. F. Baughnon Supervisor of East Baton Rouge Laborer Custom House W. H. McVey Supervisor of Franklin Inspector Custom House L. Williams Supervisor of 16th Ward, N. O. Watchman Custom House E. K. Russ Supervisor of Natchitoches Letter Carrier Postoffice F. A. Desionde Supervisor of Iberville Night Watchman Custom House W. H. Heistand Supervisor of Tangipahoa Clerk Custom House F. A. Clover Supervisor of East Baton Rouge Assistant Weigher Custom House L. C. Lesage Clerk to Supervisor of East Baton Rouge Inspector Custom House Wm. McKenna Supervisor of Caddo Postmaster Shreveport A. D. Cornog Supervisor of Red River Inspector Custom House M. A. Lenet Supervisor of Lafourche Laborer Custom House Victor Gerodias Republican Manager of St. Tammany Tax Collector, N. O. A. J. Brim Republican Manager of 2d Ward, N. O. Inspector Custom House Patrick Creagh Republican Manager 3d Ward, N. O. Chief Laborer R. C. Howard Republican Manager 4th Ward, N. O. Laborer Custom House J. C. Peuchler Republican Manager 5th Ward, N. O. Laborer Custom House W. J. Moore Republican Manager 7th Ward, N. O. Gauger Internal Revenue Thomas Leon Republican Manager 8th Ward, N. O. Gauger Custom House T. H. Rowan Republican Manager 10th Ward, N. O. Night Inspector Custom House A. W. Kempton Commissioner of the 11th Ward, N. O. Assistant Weigher Custom House L. Backus Manager of 11th Ward, N. O. Police Napoleon Underwood Supervisor of 12th Ward, N. O. Inspector Internal Revenue P. J. Maloney Supervisor of 14th Ward, N. O. Inspector Custom House L. E. Salles Republican Manager of Lafayette Weigher Custom House R. A. Herbert Republican Manager of Iberville Superintendent Warehouses Custom House W. B. Dickey Republican Manager and Tax Collector, Madison Inspector Custom House Thomas Jenk Husband to Mrs. Jenks, who swore for John Sherman. Clerk Mint

FLORIDA

VARIOUS DOMESTIC OFFICERS AND AGENTS.

_Names._ _Political Employment in 1876._ Office Held Now.

M. L. Stearns Governor Commissioner Hot Springs F. C. Humphries Elector Collector Pensacola S. B. McLin Member of Returning Board Associate Justice of New Mexico (not confirmed) Moses J. Taylor Clerk Circuit Court Jefferson County Clerk United States Land Office Joseph Bowes Inspector Leon County Clerk Treasury Department W. K. Cessna Judge Alachua County Postmaster R. H. Black Inspector Elections Alachua County Philadelphia Custom House Geo. H. DeLeon Secretary to Gov. Stearns Clerk in Treasury Department John Varnum Adjutant General Receiver Land Office Chas. H. Pearce Elector James Bell Changed tickets, Jefferson County Timber Agent Manuel Govin Republican Manager of Monroe Consul to Spezia ---- Phelps Political Manager Secretary to McCormick at Paris Exposition E. W. Maxwell Detective in employ of Republican Visiting Statesmen Lieutenant in Regular Army P. G. Mills Telegrapher who gave news about Democratic dispatches Treasury Department W. G. Purman Republican Member of Congress Sister in Treasury, dismissed when he said he considered Tilden elected Dennis Eagan Chairman Republican State Com. Timber Agent L. G. Denni Republican Manager of Alachua Treasury Department. Removed and published affidavit J. W. Howell Manager false return from Baker Collector Fernandino

VISITING STATESMEN.

John Sherman Visiting Statesman, La. Secretary Treasury John M. Harlan Visiting Statesman, La. Justice Supreme Court Stanley Matthews Visiting Statesman, La. Senator from Ohio James A. Garfield Visiting Statesman, La. Administration candidate for Speaker Eugene Hale Visiting Statesman, La. Offered Postmaster-Generalship E. W. Stoughton Visiting Statesman, La. Minister to Russia John A. Kasson Visiting Statesman, La. Minister to Austria Samuel Shellabarger Visiting Statesman, La. Messrs. Hayes and Sherman's Private Counsel John Coburn Visiting Statesman, La. Commissioner Hot Springs E. F. Noyes Visiting Statesman, La. Minister to France Lew Wallace Visiting Statesman, La. Governor of New Mexico John Little Visiting Statesman, La. Attorney-General, Ohio

The following officers of the Government were in Florida during the Presidential canvass, drawing their regular salaries, looking after the canvass:

Thomas J. Brady Second Assistant Postmaster-General ---- Peyton Assistant in Attorney-General's Office H. Clay Hopkins Special Agent Postoffice Department Wm. Henderson Special Agent Postoffice Department Z. L. Tidball Special Agent Postoffice Department B. H. Camp Special Agent Postoffice Department

SPECIAL AGENT

Wm. M. Evarts Secretary of State

The sum total per annum which these men who counted Hayes in receive is $254,115, which will amount in the four years that Hayes must remain _de facto_ President to $1,022,460.

STEPHEN J. FIELD TO TILDEN

"WASHINGTON, _Dec. 11, 1877_.

"DEAR SIR,--I did not forget, on my return to Washington, the promise I made in New York to send you the copy I have of Judge Bradley's letter explaining his action on the electoral commission, but for some days I could not find it. Having now found it, I enclose it to you, and also an extract from an article which appeared in the Newark _Daily Advertiser_ about the same time, and to which the judge evidently refers in his letter.

"The language of the letter[21] justifies some of the comments of the press upon the change of views which the judge experienced shortly before the vote was taken in the Florida case.

I am, very sincerely yours, "STEPHEN J. FIELD."

[21] Judge Bradley's peculiar if not exclusive responsibility for counting Mr. Hayes instead of the candidate chosen by the people into the Presidency is more clearly set forth in a communication of the writer entitled, "The Supreme Court and the Electoral Commission: An Open Letter to the Hon. Joseph H. Choate," first published in the New York _Sun_, on the 19th July, 1903, and later in a pamphlet by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York.

DOCUMENTS REFERRED TO IN JUDGE FIELD'S LETTER

[_Justice Bradley to the Newark "Daily Advertiser" and the Electoral Commission._]

The _Sun_ gives Bradley's letter in full as follows:

"'STOWE, VT., _September 6_.

"'EDITOR "ADVERTISER."

"'SIR,--I perceive the New York _Sun_ has reiterated its charge that after preparing a written opinion in favor of the Tilden electors in the Florida case and submitting it to the electoral commission, I changed my views during the night preceding the vote in consequence of the pressure brought to bear upon me by Republican politicians and the Pacific Railroad men, whose carriages, it is said, surrounded my house during the evening. This, I believe, is the important point of the charge. Whether I wrote one opinion or twenty in my private examination of the subject, is of little consequence and of no concern to anybody. The opinion which I finally gave was the result of my deliberations without influence from outside parties. The above slander was published some time since, but I never saw it until recently, and deemed it too absurd to need refutation. But as it is categorically repeated, perhaps I ought to notice it. The same story about the carriages of leading Republicans and others congregating about my house was circulated in Washington at one time, and came to the ears of my family only to raise a smile of contempt. The whole thing is a falsehood. Not one visitor called at my house that evening, and during the whole sitting of the commission I had no private discussion whatever of the subjects at issue with any person interested on the Republican side, and but few words with any persons. Indeed, I zealously sought to avoid all discussion outside the commission itself. The allegation that I read my opinion to Judges Clifford and Field is entirely untrue. I read no opinion to either of them, and have no recollection of expressing one; if I did, it could only have been suggestively, or in a hypothetical manner, and not for committal of my final judgment or action. The question was one of great importance to me, of much difficulty and embarrassment. I earnestly endeavored to come to a right decision, free from all political or extraneous considerations. In my private examination of the principal question, about going behind the returns, I wrote and rewrote the arguments and considerations on both sides as they occurred to me, sometimes being inclined to one view of the subject and sometimes to the other, but finally I threw aside these lucubrations, and as you have rightly stated, wrote out a short opinion, which I read in the Florida case during the sitting of the commission. This decision expresses the conviction to which I had arrived, and which after a full consideration of the whole subject seemed to me a satisfactory solution of the questions; and I may say that the more I have reflected since, the more satisfied have I become that it was right. At all events, it was the result of my own reflections and consideration, without any suggestions from any quarter, except the arguments adduced by counsel in the public discussion and by members of the commission in private consultation. As for the insinuation contained in a recent article published in a prominent periodical by a noted politician, implying that the case was decided in consequence of political conspiracy, I can only say that from the peculiar position I occupied on the commission I am able positively to say that it is utterly devoid of truth, at least, so far as the action of the commission itself was concerned. In that article the writer couples my name with the names of those whom he supposes are obnoxious to the public odium. The decencies of public expression, if nothing more, might well have deterred so able a writer from making personal imputations which he did not know to be well founded.

"'Yours respectfully, "'JOSEPH P. BRADLEY.'

"NEW YORK, _September 6th_.

"The _Sun_ regards Bradley's letter as a confession, and calls for his impeachment.

"JUDGE BRADLEY HEARD FROM

"An explanation has at last been offered in behalf of Judge Bradley respecting his alleged misconduct as a member of the electoral commission. It is found in the columns of the Newark _Daily Advertiser_, a journal with which he is known to maintain relations of unusual intimacy, and is in the following language:

"'It is just as well that the full fact should be known as a matter of history. Judge Bradley had already decided, in the Florida case, that he could not go behind the returns of the State officials. In the Louisiana case, he finally, and, after anxious thought, held to the same opinion, but of two sets of returns he chose the one he thought most authentic and legal. That elected Hayes. As to the doubt whether Judge Bradley could have prepared a written opinion on one side while he was expressing different opinions orally on the other, the facts are worth telling, and we dare to assert them without any other authorization than our challenge that they cannot be contradicted. The morning before the opinion was given, Senator Edmunds had guessed out Judge Bradley's decision, but he did not know it. Up to that time, as we understand, the opinions delivered had been oral. There may have been one or two exceptions. At the session next day, Senator Edmunds whispered to Judge Bradley that as the opinion he was to give was to be decisive, it ought to be in writing. The argument had not then closed. Bradley accepted the suggestion, and, sitting at his place, dashed down the decision on paper within an hour, in the presence and during the debate of his colleagues. He was subsequently urged to enlarge the argument, but it stands in the printed report just as it was then written. And therefore Judge Field is very correct in saying that Judge Bradley did not, at any time before, "read" to him an opinion.'"

H. F. TYLDEN TO TILDEN

"CUMBERLAND HOUSE, CHILHAM, N. CANTERBURY, _26th March_ (_1878?_).

"MY DEAR GOVERNOR,--I sent you the fly-leaf of an old Bible, in my possession, the year after you left England. It was scribbled over with the word 'Catts' in different places, and had the names of several Tyldens--John, Richard, and Henry and a Mary. The Bible was published in 1559. I was sent the accompanying rude verse, which is supposed, in the last line, to refer to the change in the spelling of the name Tylden, and Catts is again mentioned, as if it were the home from which the Tyldens said 'Good-by' when they were going across the water. I have painted the writing over, as it was so indistinct. A man living in Ashford had it in an old receipt-book. I wonder if that house we went to see near Tenterden could have been Catts? There is a farm called Cat's Farm quite close here, but I don't think it can be the one alluded to, though Sir John Fagge, whose palace adjoins Chilham Park originally spelt the name Fogge (or rather his ancestors did), and evidently the book of receipts originally belonged to some one of that name. We hope your party arrived quite safely in New York. Some day I shall ask you to send me all their photographs, as we wish to get all the Tildens and Tyldens in a book together.

"Katie was thought like one of your nieces by some of the people here who saw them walk up the village. I don't know which it was. Dick is still quartered at Woolwich; he was at home for three weeks lately, and Katie much enjoyed riding about with him. We are now having a little winter, snow falling. I am suffering from inflammation of the eyes. The state of Ireland is a great worry to me for many reasons. I can't tell you how we always think of you, and wonder if we shall meet again.

"I should very much like to send you the Bible of which I sent you the fly-leaf. I think it might be interesting to you. Messrs. Morgan were your agents when you were here. I might find out from them how to send it. Katie joins me in love and kind remembrances to your nieces.

"Believe me to be, dear Governor.

"Very sincerely yours, "H. F. TYLDEN."

(Enclosure.)

"Kentish Tyldens like to ratts Have crossed water fleeing Catts Lo, every ratt that said Good-bye Has turned a tail into an eye.

"J. FOGGE, "_Halden_. 1713."

General William Preston to S. J. Tilden

"LEXINGTON, KY., _30 March, 1878_.

"MY DEAR GOVERNOR,--The kindness and interest you have shown towards my son in New York are very deeply felt by me, apart from the great aid you gave him in commencing his life in an untried field. Through your influence he has commenced his career under excellent auspices, but I can readily discern from our correspondence that the social and fashionable attractions of the city can have left him but little time for reading and work. This he tells me very frankly in his letters, but I have indulged in no long admonitions or remonstrances, because you must give a young horse head sometimes to keep him to the course. As I know you have equestrian tastes, you must pardon my illustration. But whilst I observe this plan, I do not wish my son to run with a loose rein nor swerve from the course. I know he has honor, truth, and courage, and I hope he will be a true gentleman and useful citizen in after life. Although wealth and distinction in the intellectual world are desirable, they are not, to my mind, paramount objects. I was brought up with old-fashioned ideas that honest military renown and oratorical distinction were first, and rather inclined to the thought '_Ratio ab oratio sunt arma hominis acutiora ferro_,' but it seems that taste is not hereditary; or, at least, I fear it is not. The course he is pursuing is rather in obedience to my own advice than his inclinations.

"But I sat down to write only a few lines of thanks to you, and I am trespassing on your time. Wickliffe writes me that he will be with you, or at your house, on Monday, and if you can write me a few lines so that I may know how he is getting along in New York, you would confer upon me a great personal favor.

"I pray you to present my kind remembrances to your sister Mrs. Pelton and to the ladies, and to believe me.

"Very truly and sincerely, "Your friend, "W. PRESTON."

Whitelaw Reid to S. J. Tilden

"23 PARK AVE., _April 4, 1878_.

"DEAR GOVERNOR,--I want you to advise me in a matter which interests you, since you have promised to come to my dinner to Bayard Taylor at the Union League Club on the evening of the 10th inst. I invited Mr. O'Conor, and am sure, from the tone of his reply, that he would like to come. He declines, however, basing the refusal on the belief that I cannot, and ought not, keep the entertainment private, and that he is anxious for the remainder of his days to avoid any agency in public displays.

"You know him so well that you can tell me in a word whether it would be discreet for me to write again endeavoring to remove his objection. The dinner is to be limited to about twenty (the table will only seat twenty-five), and I am not going, under any circumstances, to admit any reporter. It will be absolutely as private as it is ever possible to have anything of this sort.

"Mr. O'Conor's letter is so evidently sincere in tone, and I have been so desirous, anyway, to have him present, that I venture to ask your advice as to whether I should try again.

"Forgive the bother, and believe me

"Very truly yours, "WHITELAW REID."

TILDEN TO HON. CHARLES CAREY

"NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY MORNING, _June 5th, 1878_.

"DEAR MR. CAREY,--I received your telegram late last evening, and answer by mail because the telegraph is leaky.

"My appreciation of Mr. Henderson has been so manifest that I need not say how competent I deem him, or that he may fairly be classed among those from whom a choice is to be made.