Sunday morning globe., 1901-12-08

slauderers and assassins of character.
Behold, If your excelleucy please a man
who has shed his blood on more than one
battlefield ia defense Of the republic and
whose war record for a youth of sixteen is
the peer Of all and exceIed by few as the
documents laid before MI Koons and con.
temptuously returned 10 my attorney, will
establshl, doomed for life and denied
mercy because Of the slime deposited. not
in the mouth but in the mind Of MI Koons,
by the secret informers, not Of Venice, but
Of Columbus
The Bridge Of Signs" was most fpingly
named across which the unfortunate victims
Of secret ISLANDERS marched to their living
tombs in the dungeons OF Venice, for re-
I dress, vndication and open investigation,
| once they had crossed the fatal bridge, were
/ denied them. How often have my eyes
| been dimmed with tears at the hapless fate
| Of the noble, the brave, and the virtuous
! victims Of secret eabals and conspirators,
| Of political and personal enemies and
| thanked God ] lived in a free republic,
| where the fundamental principles of per
sonal liberty imperatively command that
| the acCuser and the accused stand face to
/ face 4 but like the other idols ] so fondly
/ cherished Of the saCreduess Of the Amer-
can home, the vindication of womau's
honor, and the manhood of glorious race,
have lived to see and to experience the
sad reality that every virtue falls like
house Of cards before the poisonous breath
of the secret and cowardly assassin of
character.
Mr.. Koons says in commenting on the
sentiment which exists that
There are some wrongs the law cannot
/ and honorable men must themselves re-
dress; generally speaking the law gives
ample redress for all grievances, but If In.
/ stances are found occasionally in which the
/ punishment meted out suot commensurate
] TO the Olense the remedy is found iu
/ change of the law and not defiance of its
] authority But III This sentiment can ever
] be INDUCED 1t can only be invoked on be.
/ hall of the innocent and not on behalf of
/ those who bring the provocauon upon
/ themselves"
] Observe well, your Excelleucy, the appi.
/ cacation Mr.. Koous makes of the foregoing
For many years Elliott had run paper
I 10 Columbus ard was noted for being
] wholly indifferent TO peoples seusibilities,
/ and regardless of their regulations. Ciu-
zens of an degrees were attacked through
his columns their private characters as
] sailed without mercy, and things, even
/ though true like the reiundiug of the state
/ debt ] suppose that were not matters Of
| public concern, were ventilated through
/ his columns regardless of how improper
they might be for the public eye or what
the consequences might be TO the person
/ assailcd.'
It is scarcely TO be believed, your Excel
lency. that not one word of testimony
touching the foregoing charge was offered
/ by the state. In fact 10 such charge was
made by the state nor am ] now under
] Fs.-
a newspaper on lines different TO those
usually adopted by men who never pub
/ lished and never will publish mars
| paper
Mr. Koous evidently regards conducting
| a newspaper containing all the news and
minus filthy advertisements, such as abor-
ton and private disease remedies lthe
stock I'm trade of the daily papers of Colum.
bus as worse than shooting on the public
] streets on a national holiday"
] 1t too preposterous, your Excelcncy.
/ 20 be called on 20 defend my course as pub
Usher of the SHHdap gabffaL Realize if
/ your ENcellency please that for ten years
previous TO my arrest pvblished iu Colum-
bus a Sunday newspaper and that during
that period had but one libel suit brought
ON me boy osborn and one case of assault.
During the same period my contemporaries
had more than a dozen, and ] have seen or
read Of more than one assault on their edi-
tor. and publishers. ! have seen Mr. w.
ID Br'ckel assaulted 800 the presence of the
magistrate Mr. Samuel j. Flickngcr
knocked down ON the public street Mr..
Allen o. Myers thumped into insensibiHty.
and have read of j. D. * Connolly, of the
.SNuaar Nfos beaten so badly that ne ran
against the iron fence of the State House
yard, while Mr.. Bonebrake, of the SuHaar
Hygid was pummeled until hc cried
enough
Suppose amy or all of these gentlemen
were tocome before MI Koous for clemencv
for the commission of some crime would
it be just TO refuse them mercy because
Hon Waldo Taylor of Newark, whipped
NIr BUckell, Gen &, C. Walcutt knocked
out Mr.. Elickingcr Mr. Edward Parr trim
med mp Mr.. Bonebrake, or Detective Bauer
seriously injured Mr Connolly And vet
this is the decision of MT Koous in NV
case. and ] understand IL meets the an.
proval of some of the gentlemsu named
who were assaulted for abusing honest
citizens"
So clean were the columns of the CabYal. .
your EXCellency, that ann willing TO exhibit .
the bound files for the inspection of any
person you may designate, and if he finds
apatent medicine advertisement of the ma.
ture before indicated and which were and .
still are the principle standing advertise.
menls of my contemporaries. will not only .
cease from asking, but decline a pardon.
But waving all this, If your Excelency .
please, ann emboldened to ask Mr. Koous .
where he got such information as is con- .
tanned In the paragraph quoted He was .
not @ subscriber 20 nor a reader of the
CabUaL There is no testimony concerning
this matter in the records of my case. no
person came forward when my application
for pardon was being heard to oppose or
expose me.
Who then are MI Koons' informants2
Who are the uameless citizens who
vouchcd' for these Charges2
They are not the seven OF eight thousand
veteran soldiers who signed petitions In my
behalf they are not the ex.Cabinet officers
of the United States. Hon Charles Foster
and Stephen D. Elkins They are not an
Ex-Governor of Ohio, h. NJ. Bishop, who
from death-bed dictated a most pathetic