Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1882 — UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. [ARTICLE]

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

State of Indiana, ) County of Jasper, ( ss Frederick Hoover being duly sworn according to law. der oses and says that he is a candidate for the office of State Senator for the district composed of the counties of Jasper, Newton, and Benton, in said .State; that he has read a circular which purports to give the testimony of M, F. Chilcote in the ease of Michael Halloran, vs Samuel McCullough, George Kessler, and Frederick Hoover, which was tried in the Newton Circuit Court at the October term 1876, that jn said Chilcote’s testimony as reported, appears the following statement; “I had a conversation with Fred Hoover, one of the defendants, in which he said that Swett should have license, but as for Healy’s damned Catholic Irishman he never shall have license while I am commissioner,” affiaat further says thatChilcote’s testimony as reported, in speaking of affiant Hoover says as follows: “He then went on about Healy’s man Mr. Halloran, and said of him, that damned Irish Catholic would not get license. Defendant Kessler also said this,” affiant further swears that he was one of the defendants in the case wherein Chilcote’s reported testimony was taken; that on the trial of said cause, he the affiant, upon his solemn oath in open court, denied the use of such expressions as the witness M- F. Chilcote attributed to him, and he now affirms that the words attributed to him by the witness Chilcote, charging him with referring to Mi. Halloran as a Catholic Irishman, are absolutely and unqialifiedly false in substance and in fact, and further affiant says that at the time referred to by the witness M. F. Chilcote, nor at any other time, did he ever make any such statement either in form or substance, and that ha never used any language that could be construed in the manner indicated, affiant further says that he was a member of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County at the December term, 1875, ami well remembers that at that time Mr. Hallo ran was ap applicant for a license to sell Intoxicating liquors at retail, and that while eaid petition was pending, affiant and George Kessler, then one of the Board had freqnent consultations regarding the granting of license and that at no time djdheever hear George Kessler make any such statement as the witness M. F. Chiicote attributed to him: and further that affiant knows of his own personal knowledge, that Mr. Halloran received the same consideration by the Board of Commissioners, and by each

member of said Board, that any citizen of the State would be entitled to. FREDERICK HOOVER, . Subscribed and sworn x SEAL > to before me this second < ’ dav of November, a. d. 1882. CHARLES H. PRICE, Clerk Jasper Circuit Court.