The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1877-08-09

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.THuRsDAY. AUGUST 9, 1877
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Gibbons of the Jl9raor makes a
.great'sds sbodt the Register prtiting.
ticketsfor slstfnsburg;. says "
had the same otIer1ss but defined to
print them. Theyoasor he. did. not
dose was bscauselhe was, afraid he
would not gethis money. TWAS from
no conscientious scruples" we as:
sure our readers, that he refused the
work. So far as we are concerned,
we printed them because it was l'esi,
mess, and no crime was committed in
doing so; and besides, honesty and
fair dealing depanded that all pla-
ces to be votedfor under the Jaw for
Capital location, should have tickets
in the county, that every voter would
be provided with the means to enable
him to vote for such place as his con-
science dictated. We compromised
none of the interests of this County
or the Third District, in printing
tickets for Martinsburg upon an or
der from their Executive Committee.
We printed the tickets for Charles.
ton, and no one made any fuss about
it, nor did either Of the candidates
for County Superintendent object to
having their names printed upon
them,
Mr.. Gibbons article is evidence
that he would permit no man to vote
for any other point than Charleston,
and would resort to every means
known to "disroputable politician"
to intimidate voters and prevent a
fair expression of the people upon
the Capital question.
We made no attempt to smugglo
these Martinsburg tickets through
the county, but on the contrary sta
ted in our paper last week that we
had printed some 1000 of them, and
warned the voter against them.
The printing of these tickets he
cared nothing about, his real object
was to array the people of this county
against us; and taking advantage of
the feeling manifested against us for
the course this paper pursued in re-
gard to strikers, and its advocacy of a
new school building, he makes an
ungentlemanly attempt to throw
more fuel to the flame, in the hope
that it would burn so intensely that
patronage would be driven from the
Register into the Monitor that it
might be lifted from its half starved
condition.
He may be very conscientious in
his views of fright" upon this quos-
ton, but he is not so in treating his
business obligations at home. He
says he "necded the money" No
doubt of it. He ought to have filled
that order for Martinsburg and taken
in that ten or fifteen dollars; it would
have helped to pay his hands and
his paper bill, or he might have ap'
piled it to the payment of paper
obtained from this office on which tc
print some three Or four issues of the
Monitor. In procuring this large
amount of paper from us he "com
promised" his rord, if not his honor
We had hoped that our association
with Mr.. Gibbons in publishing pa
pcrs in this place, would be both plea
SAINT and agreeable. We now regret
that we are compelled to resort to an
article of this nature, but when We
find him resorting to such dastardly
and selfish means to array people
against us and our business, we are
compelled, in selfdctence, to notice
him in severe but not pleasant lang
mage,
This is probably the last time We
shall notice in these columns, a man
who has proven himsellso unworthy
Of our respect
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Neither 4 city nor a State is liable
at common law for property destroy
cd by a mob, though Il Legislature