The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1876-08-03
THAT FOUR HUNDRED DOL
LARS HAYES GOT.

THAT FOUR HUNDRED DO7-7
LARS HAYES GOT.
Chaplain W.. W. Harper Speaks
and teiIs how Hayes Gathered
in Il Dead Soldiers MOney--S0i-
diers Rcad!s-Let Hayes EXpInin
How lie Disposed Of the Honey,
III he Gam.
Some three weeks ago we called
upon Rev. w. W. Harper, late Chap
lain of the Thirteenth West Virginia
Volunteers, to explain what Gen.
Hayes (now the Republican candi-
date for President,) did with the $500
and watches belonging to soldier
who was court-martialed and shot at
Monocacy junction, Maryland, in
1864, and which the soldier had en-
trusted to Mr.. Harper, to forward to
his poor widowed mother, if she was
to be found, and which Hayes in his
greed for gain, took from Harper, and
robbed the soldiers widowed mother
Of the money, by deciding that it be-
longcd to the government. If the
money belonged to the government,
did not the watches also2 It is be-
lieved in this part Of country,
Swhef6. the fact is lSndwnt9 many OF
the soldiers, that Hayes never paid
the money over to the government,
but that he divided it between him
sclfand one of his pet Colonies; and
is further intimated that the editor
of the Ohio State Journal, Columbus,
knows something Of the history of
this S4O0 speculation, We await
now the answer of Gen. Hayes. No
Republican paper has as yet attemp-
ted to deny this charge or this letter,
although two Of them are published
within three miles of where Mr.,
Harper lives. We want to say in
addition, that Rev. w, W, Harper is
u staunch Republican, and one who
has never been known to deyiate in
the least from his political princi-
pies, and is man of truth, honor
and integrity, and stands rs high in
the estimation of the people Of the
county, as any gentleman in it. Be
low is the letter, the original copy
of which can be seen at this Office
1t will explain itself. Now it is for
General Hayes to explain little;
"HARTFoRD CITY, West VA,
June 26, 1876.
an the last issue of the Point
Pleasant Weekly Register, the editor
asks of us an explanation in relation
to some money with which Governor
Hayes had to do. am glad an OPP
portunity has been afforded me Of
giving u statement Of this war Incl
dent, from the fact that both myself
and also General Hayes have been
maligued and misrepresented in the
matter. The following are the facts;
In the summer of 1864 our brigade,
commanded by General Hayes, was
ordered to Monooaoy junction, in
Maryland, and while lying there a
soldier belonging to the Twenty-third
Ohio was tried for desertion and con.
demned to be shot was then the
Chaplain of the Thirteenth West
Virginia Regiment, and the only one
in the brigade. This unfortunate
man wanted to see a Chaplain before
he was executed, was sent for, and
had some conversation with him in
relation to the condition of his mind,
&c. He then told me he had some
$500 in money and two watches,
which he wanted to leave with me,
He said he had no friends in the
world that he knew of, except 4 moth
err, and that she was somewhere in
Virginia, but did not know where,
and if | could find her out to send the
money and watches to her, and il not
to keep it myself. The man was
shot, and Immediately after the thing
was over, General Hayes sent for me
to come to his headquarters | re-
ported. He inquired of me what the
MAJ, p,vn ma I told him He nv-