The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1872-10-10
For CoSdnEss,
FRANK HER EFORD.
THE MEETING AT THE COURT
HOUSE,

! AL MCL2 AMI - Ill COUN
HOUSE.
According to previous announcement, a
fair proportion of the voters Of Lewis
township assembled a, the Court. House on
Thursday last to listen TO the address of
Hon. Frank Hereford, he being the regu.
ular Democratic and Conservative nominee
for Congress in the Third District.
Mr.. Hereford was introduced by Hon.
Edmund Sehon, Democratic aud CoDserva,
tive Presidential Elector for this District.
who in a short speech, gave his reasons
why he supported Greeley and Brown. :
Ills reasoning was full of good sense
aud sound argument, which showed him
to DO we'll posted in our national at.
fairs, pure patriot, ready and fluent
speaker, and that his whole heart was in
the great cause Of reconciliation aud good
feeling in all sections Of our now distracted
and divided country, caused by the tyran-
ny, oppression, aud vindic'ive persecution
Of the Southern people by the dc,es,ed ty.
rant who now dissraccs the Presidential
chair.
Major Hereford began BY few apol-
getic remarks, and then gave an account Of
bis stewardship Congress- and in mos,
happy manner defended himself. and re-
futed the vile, foul, sucakiug and rontemp.
tible ISLANDERS published in the Grant
"spiuuiug-Jeuny Of this county from
time to time, in relation to bis votes and
course in the last Congress lie showed
couclusively that he had been misrepro-
SeDted-w lfully and INTENTIONAL misrep.
resented in Mason county That he had
been charged with voting to remove the
tariff of salt. To disprove this charge
and to show how utterly false it was,
he cited the fact that when the Committee
on Ways and Means, which was composed
Of nine Republicans and two Democrats,
with Dawes Of Massachusetts, Chairman.
reported 10 favor Of a reduction on salt that
he (Hereford) and the other members, both
Democrats and Republicans, from the salt
districts got together, and there agreed to
offer an amendment to the report of the
Committee. The amendment was offered
fixing the duty on salt at twelve cents per
uue hundred pounds. and Mr. Hereford
voted for that amendment tu, it was de-
feated and voted down by Republicans -
Previous 10 this report of the Committee,
the duty on salt was eighteen cents on the
one hundred pounds; this report reduced it
to eight cents, and as compromise between
eight and eighteen, the amendment fix
ing the duty on salt at twelve cents on the
one hundred pounds, was offered and sup.
ported By all the members Of Congress from
the salt districts. Mr.. Hereford not
only voted for this amendment, but advo-
Gated its passage in an able speech; bu,
q Republican Congress said mol How uu.
fair, bow malicious aud utterly false
have been these charges which emens.ed
from aud bad their origin in the weak and
pampered brain Of the gentleman who ed.
its The Grant "spinning-Jenny" of this
county? What is his otjects 1t is two.
fold. First, to cripple Mr.. Hereford with
the manufacturers Of the Third District.
Second, to secure the election, by auy
means, no matter bow dirty, low, disrepu
table and untrue, ofC. W (Chcesehead
Smith, whose command plundered the
whole Of that part of the District bordering
on the Ohio river. The same commander
whose company pluudcred the merch-
ants of Point Pleasant in 1868, to the am.
cunt OF many thousands of dollars; the
company tha, shot aud killed, Lieutenant