The Indiana State sentinel., 1879-12-03

fendant And now, when his perjury has
accomplished all thatit is possible TO accom-
plish, and be is asked to face trial for per
jury before the citizens of his county and his
nsighbors- he takes refuge in fight. However
we do not pen this com m munication as much
to htly characterize McGovern as to inquire
OF the people of the State, through your pa
per. what opinion but that OF the gravest cul.
pability can Sc entertained OF Harrison, Mel
SOD, Trussler and the horde of small fry who
abeitsd the prosecution of the Jennings
county citiz sns. They were 8 great expense
in making their defense, being required to
attend court 60 miles from their home, in a
strange city. and for month, their families
unaccustomed to scenes OF arrest. were
thrown iDto distress and grief over the seiz-
ure of their husbands brothers and fathers
by the United States authorities, and all
through the perjured ,tory of this McGov-
ern, nursed and petted by the Republican
leaders of Indiana
McGovern is now q fleeing felon, and the
blood of Wilkerson and the tears of l3 Jen-
plDgs county homes are upon Ben Harrison
a. d his assistants. The great Government
oil the United States paid Harrison 81 ,OO0 to
persecuts honest citizens upon the perjured
statement of well known scou1drel
Tue only palliation for Harrison that can
be suggested Is that he was imposed upon
by the representations of ceItBn Radical
leaders of Jennings and Jackson counties
that McGovern was worthy of be'lef Bot
should have warned him against credence in
the sffidsvit OF so-called detective, who
confessed uOon the witness stand that he
was paid $500 by Platter and Overms yer to
plav the part he did in the conspiracy cases.
rhis portion of the State does not ask judg
meut against Platter AMI Overmeyer, the
associates OF the peIjured McGoyerp, for
they wilt take care OF them, but against
Harrison, Trussler & Co, and the Govern
ment itself, we do ask the people to pro
nouUce judgment.
The night after Judge Carr had overruled
the motion OF McGovern's attorney to quasi
the Indictment, conclave of Icul oirds
seems to have been held az North Vernon
to consider the state of affairs and the out
look for McGovern. Fried sy, a Madison
patriot, whose party in Jefferson county
had furnished 500 of the $iO0 paid
had written MeGoverns affidavit for
him in Seymour garret and had paid
him the $40O; John Overmeyer, who in 1868
was member of a lodge of the Knights of
the Golden Circle, aud 10 1877 COOS d patriot
ism Ms the Republican leader of the House
of Representatives, were present. While to
the discredit of the bench be it said. that a
judge, who holds the seat. but not the
character of judge, lent the light o, his
luficial advice to the conclave.
Phe next day when called 10 court Nc
Govern and his boDcsmen answered not but
we're defsulted, and thus has ended, for the
present, the case of the State of Indiana vs.
Thomas MoGovern for perjury.
On the midnight train OF the same day,
VIM X Marshall, the attorney of Mccoy
ern. and the leading Republican of Jackson
county, went to indianapolis Tde purpose
Tor which he went is not known ID your Cor
RESPONDENT. any more than the purp, Sc
of McGovern, on the night be went to Iod
anspol TO make the affidavit before Ho!-
stem, was known to the sleeping citiz.ns of