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Show How Senator Spencer wits ileeletl. Montgomery, Ala., 5. J.G.Perriu, late republican member of the leu's-lature leu's-lature from Wilcox county, t'.sliiicd is follows before the commiitic now : inves'iiiaiir'g the means by which Spencer eecund his election to tho United S'aies senate: "Troops were retained in Alabama before tho elec-l tiou on the requisition of myself an 1 i it her?, it having been undertO"d that Spencer had arranged for troop-to troop-to be put at the d;s-posal of th revenue rev-enue officers. Wnerc intimidatioi was necessary, th se troops, nccom-panied nccom-panied by the Cuittd Slates marshal, who had fictitious warrants with citizens' citi-zens' names prominently displayed and shown to persons who wouU in-rorm in-rorm them, were paraded, and in virions counties. I shot a hole iu my hat and rejmrted that 1 had been attai ked by ku klux and I sent troops to arrest my mythical assailants. I kept the troops so long as I could use them as a political machine. Our purple was to secure the legislature at all hazirds and elect spencer." A number of witnesses testify to the same etlect. |