He is asked. "To whom did you first make that remark?" He answers. "The first man I talked about it was Colonel Robinson. of Fort Wayne. a few days after the election. I said to him. I see that they are raising the question that Captain White has not been naturalized. that can not be possible. I was present when he was naturalized. and Colonel Robinson spoke up and said. That is just what Jim White says about it." Here are these two persons. a hundred miles apart. who. without opportunity to consult with each other. agree thus in their statements. Now. I want to put it to the majority of the committee. Do you believe that if Captain White were trying to show a naturalization which did not take place. he would. when confronted with the question. have referred to a hightoned. honorable gentleman like Mr. Jenkinson. and said that that gentleman was present at the time of the naturalization? Would he have selected a man a hundred miles away and said he was there. basing his whole case upon this statement without knowing how that other man would testify? This fact alone does away with the idea that James B. White was stating anything but what he really and absolutely believed. If he had been undertaking to prove that he was naturalized when he knew that he was not. he would have selected two of his followers in the city of Fort Wayne and said that they were present as his witnesses. But instead of this he names a man whom he has not seen for years. a man 100 miles away. and a man who. as all agree. is an honorable. hightoned gentleman. Now.
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