Sunday morning globe., 1901-12-15

accept lle once OF supervisor OF INDlN
Printing; you will find his estimate of me
in the appendix.
Governor Foster loaned me, without note
or security, the money to purchase and
equip the SUNDAY CabiilL Caught If
your Excellency please, without dollar at
the expiration Of my term of Office, with
half completed residence on my
hands, but for the financial assistance Of
Governor Foster ! would have been peuni-
less.
Governor Hoadley honored me by selec-
ton to sit by his side In open procession to
receive the remains OF the distinguished
dead and TO deliver the eulogy from the
steps OF the Capitol Governor Foraker
houored me with the unsolicited appoint
ment of manager Of the Mansfield peni-
tentiary, and Governor Campbell refused to
accept my resignation until my subsequent
departure for Europe.
Mr. Michael Davtt, the leader Of the
Irish race, has offered me, as did his
predecessor, Charles Stewart Parnell, a seat
In the British Parliament for which honor
! would not sacrifice my American citizen
ship. though deeply interested In the cause
of Ireland
viii your EXcellency ACCEPT these facts
as the evidence of depraved character
who lived by running the regulations Of
the innocent, and levying blackmail
My last act as citizen ] performed n
the county Jail by deprivng my wife and
children of the last thousand dollars they
possessed TO pay a note in the Brooks But
Ter * Co.'S. bank, upon which Judge Charles
Satin was the sole and only iudorser
DO the degraded meet honorable engage
meuts even at the sacrifice of those they
love- Are blackmailers accustomed To-
inset honorable obligations though fnan-
cially irresponsible when under sentence
of life imprisonment
If your eNcelleucy please one word more
and ! have done
Did I possess the viciousness heredi-
tary or acquired, to qualify ME as a domes-
tic brute drunkard or liberiine, ] would
not be a prisoner for life, as the woman
and the children whose honor vindicated
would not for a single day adectiouately
call ME Observation-Disclosures consequently ]
would not have been involved iu any diff
Guilty In their behalf
never raised my hand in anger TO wife
/ or child, as my servants for the past ten
/ years will testify. ] was never drunk in
/ their presence nor was ] known in the
saloons of Columbus The disreputable
men and women Of the city knew me not
TO their habits and abodes ] was stranger
and foe.
Finally, your Excellency, in the appen.
dix Of this pamphlet you will find the COZ
| roborative testimony supporting my asser-
tions; If my official calumuiator will be
equally truthful and specific. ! challenge
| him to produce his reliable citizens" and
| here make this declaration, your Excel
| lency, that If Mr.. Koons can produce one
/ OF one hundred such reliable citizens
will demonstrate and establish that all their
| misinformation of and concerning me can
| be traced by as broad a trail as the ancient
roadways from the Roman forum 10 that
empires distant frontiers, to two OF three
malignant and personal enemies of mine
the principal one Of whom and his active
| lieutenant have already referred to-
Since the world commenced, and / sup
pose until the last trumpet assemblies us for
Judgment man will 6ght his fellow and
malign his enemy. Hence If your Excel
! lency please, ] who have experienced all
the vicissitudes of fortune and have
sounded the depths Of misery as well as
/ basked in the sunshine of happiness and
/ prosperity know how TO salute with tie
/ fortitude of experience whatever destiny
/ has in store for me, but ] would u these
/ last words appeal TO the judgment of the
unprejudiced If the matter here set forth
/ bears not the impress of truth in the con-
/ spicuous fact deducible from my defense.
that ] am more concerned for reputation
no man dared attack with impunity. while
/ had the power to defend IL, than ] am for
that liberty the bare thoughts of which
sends the blood coursing through my
arteries until the swelling veins throb re-
sponsivc 10 the beatings of my heart
Il is the intention of the law to punish
/ its violators, and it is the theory of society
to accompany such expiation with reform
/ Penalties are attached to the grades of the
various crimes, and the legislator, the Judge
and society design the equality of punish
ment
He who revels in the beauty Of the lily
and whose soul is transported by the
charms Of uature-whose refined spirtu-
ality may even drink IN the harmony OF
the spheres falls in a moment Of human
weakness, and the EQUAL penalty is meted
out 20 him provided for the vulgar the
brutal or the vicious whose animal nature
finds no debasement in restraint, no loss of
happiness in seclusion but the deprivation
Of the grosser desires, aud no ignominy in
4 the routine of a prisoner
If, your ENCellency, there was equality
in punishment, Rave already paid the pen
atty of an eternity Of exquisite torture
and the mentality which has been sub
jected to such a frightiul strain for almost
six long years, would long ere this have
snapped its tension but for the immortal
hope Of vindicating my name from the
mountain Of calumuy now overwhelming
not myself alone, but the innocent children
and the devoted wife whose undeserved
suierngs wiring my heart
The laws of the Nledes and Persians were
not more Interchangeable than is the pertinent
epigram by their fruits shall ye know
them" II Osborn, as Mr Koons charges.
owed his depravity to my training, ] set
over against this slanderous deduction the
martyred brother whom ] raised my oldest
boy and girl graduates of the ADleylcdH
. bHbiil Sth00t my whole family, whom my
neighbors friends and former servants in
this city and Cincinnati are familiar with
The teachers of my children, the associates
of my brother and the friends and acquaint.
ances of my family unite in indignant pro.