Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1878 — Sherman on the Griddle. [ARTICLE]

Sherman on the Griddle.

Secretary Sherman, says a Washington dispatch, is very much disturbed at the way the Louisiana end of the investigation is going. The testimony doesn’t appear to suit him. He expresses dissatisfaction with the way his case is being managed, and has requested Shellabarger to go down to New Orleans and take charge of his defense. Chairman Potter has forwarded to Sherman a reply to the latter’s request that several hundred witnesses, whom he names, may be summoned to prove that there was intimidation and fraud in Louisiana. Potter remin is Sherman that the principal witne i3es whom he asks for have already been summoned, including Weber, woose testimony has beea taken, and that every other request of the Secretary has been granted, but the committee have not yet decided to go into the question of intimidation, and he (Potter) does not think it germane or necessary. The allusion to Weber’s testimony is a little rough in view of the facts. .Weber wi s summoned at Sherman’s instance as his witness. On his arrival Sherman and Shellabarger interviewed him, and undertook to “ coach” him. Finding that Weber didn’t “ coach” worth a cent, and wasn’t likely to give the kind of testimony wanted, they dropped him and told him he might go home, but some of the committee thought he might as well testify as long as he was here; so he stayed. It is|a singular fact that every witness so far lyis been a Republican.