Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-08-15
sUB-EDIToRs ARRESTED.
Editor Heacock,s Assistants Take

Editor Heacock's Assistants Take n
Cue From Hts Teachings-Arrest
Follows.
Washington, Aug. ia warrant has
been issued for the arrest of A. B. En-
dicott. brother in-law of G. G. Heacock,
and the son of c. c. Endicott, and Guy
Heacock, who have been running the
Brighton Enterprise during the time
C. C. Heacock Is serving term in jail
for libel. Messrs. Endicott and Guy
Heacock are charged with libel. Last
Saturdays copy of the Brighton Enter
prise contains an account of the Hea-
cock case at the request of the United
Christian party, on whose ticket C. c.
Heacock Is running for governor of
Iowa. The article contains a reitera-
ton Of libelous matter for which Hea-
cock was convicted.
The Brighton Enterprise article con-
tains full review of the case, OF which
the following is part:
While serving a six months Jail sem
tence in Washington county for ex-
pressing his just opinions. c. G. Hea-
cock was, on July 4, 1889, nominated for
governor of Iowa by the state conven-
ton of the United Christian party, In
session at Des Moines.
I'm asking public support, 1t Is proper
| to publish some of the principal facts
which led up to his imprisonment, in
volving, as they Go, the fundamental
principles of the new party
'Mr. Heacock is, and for more than
seventeen years has been, editor Of the
Brighton Enterprise, and as such has
advocated bible Christianity from the
standard. what would Jesus do?" He
accepts Jesus as the guide to follow in
4 all the relations of life, business, social
and political, as we'll as religious. This
practical teaching, and rebuke OF sin,
raised up host of vindictive enemies
/ against him, "Scribes, Pharisees, hypo-
critics." but he turned not back, but
took up his cross and followed Jesus
&c. C. Heacock is in jail for charging
certain witness with perjury. This
/ charge Of perjury was based upon the
4 testimony given by this witness before
/ a grand jury In 1893. as shown by the
official records. On this evidence that
slgrand jury found an Indictment, but at
the trial Of the case the testimony of
4 this witness was found to be grossly
false and the defendant was acquitted.
4 After the trial, in 1894, Washington
lpaper said it was evident that enemies
had used the machinery Of justice in an
! effort to vent their spite" Mr.. Hea-
cock, who had personal knowledge of
4 the facts, afterwards published the
4 particular manner in which 1.-The ma
i chinery of justice" had been prostitut-
led to spite, as the people had right to
i know. For this publication, the truth
of which has never been disputed. Mr..
Heacock was fined 5000, and when IT
q was found that punishment had not
changed his opinion (and no one elses)
d this machinery of Justice, so-called.
again ground him through its mill and
Z sent him to Jail for six months, with
. strict orders to be suppressed and not
to tell it on them.
His Imprisonment Is the culminat-
ing act of conspiracy in which those
} engaged have, during series of years
used the machinery of justice" to ac-
complish their avowed purpose, which
was to down Heacock" and ruin him
socially, politically and financially. to
rob his wife and children of their own
property as we'll and then send the hus-
band and father to prison and silence
his pen. Their original motives Gas in
the Dreyfus CASEY were envy and spite
and the libel suits were the efforts
they made to suppress any publication
, lof the facts, being but a frantic effort
. to save themselves from exposure, as
lZola was convicted of criminal libel In
/. an effort to save the conspirators of the
French army"