The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-09-04

as IN everybody who docs not do
lsg M wants them To, especially when
z a., interfcres with our business
. ,ga 'rill not allow Brown or any 9TH
We ,o,n 70 attuck our business with
- 81, striking back, and our business
o y 1nblisllinga newspaper, and II any
y WI interieres with us that way, he
Wv .a".t take the consequences. So
pu sb for Brown. He has praised
,bs Jackson Herald in Jackson coun-
wv has attempted TO use it for his
W 'n,I.yes, and because he could not
P,baL las gone of into another
~ oo,nty and abused it and slandered
!, as he has everybody aud every.
\, hing that came in his way.
Our regular renders will know
..Sother VIC speak the truth or not
!" what We say, and those who have
nv, been our readers willlknow that
W" W. would not dare to publish q lie
!" ,bp flco Of our subscribers, who
,.oold know better aud scorn us for
,%c feeble attempt to deceive them.
Ne have aimed 70 be honest in our
oouduct Of this paper, and our read.
s,s know whether we lrave been so
or not, and We were never moro sin.
Sstcly honest than We wefesin max
IN 4 roIort of those speeclidi. Our
affect was to lay before our readers q
Correct report Of the speeches, and
no cared not whether such a report
hurt Judge Brown or Captain Hass-
isr-lhat was none Of our business.
nj. none Of our business now whom
I, has hurt, aud we do not care; but
since We have seen the above infam-
ms attack, We feel a soothing con-
s.iou,ucss that the truth so published
did hurt Brown, elsehe would not have
soucnlcd so loudly. He could not
make one kind Of a speech here, and
% over into the next county and
make one on the other side. He is
mt accustomed, tohaving his speeches
rcporlcd, and they do look bad in
mint, tllat.iS Il fact. But were all
iho different kind Of speeches that
Brown ever made, published togeth-
Or what II choice collection of con-
iradictions and absurdities they
would he.
We denohnce the inuendos the
charge made in the Monitor, at the
instigation Of Brown, us a base and
Infamous lie. The "half.sheet" was
issued in the regular course of publ
cation, and it was II half.sheet be-
cause our regular edition of whole
sheets were exhausted before any pa
ters were sent to our subscribers in
Mason county, aud we could have
sold thousands Of copies if we had
printed more. The report ,cas fair
and correct report, gotten up as a
matter Of business, for benefit Of our
readers; and the only complaint we
heard from any one here concerning
it was that the speeches read better
thqn hrysouaid.
The editor .CSthe Monitor dill not
Nc several gentlemen of both the
and Republican parties,
WIN were present and heard the dis,
.usSion referred to in the Herald,
Sho say the report is garbled and I'M
imc,' and he can not give the names
Df those men, The most Of the men
who heard those speeches are sub
.cribers for the Herald, and doubtless
Ill Of them are in the habit of read
ing il. They are intelligent men
md could remember what was said
,ud what was not; and, knowing this,
is it probable that We would attempt
10 palm oiI on them n false and spuri.
ius rcImrt2 In whose interest would
we do thiR No one paid us to do it.
1t would not have paid candidate
to have had a false report published.
Dur object was to increase the de-
mand for our paper, and to better its
subscription. We could not have
lone that BY publishing here what
every one at that meeting could have
said was u lie. The discussion was
not "rgfcrrel 10" in the Herald-it
wat published us fully as VIC could do
il. We took down the words as they
fell from the speakers lips, as our
notes'Eill show. Brown may get up
in a crowd at Leon, where hisspeech
here was not heard, and denounce
that ruport as dirty, low, election
eering trick, 7 but he cannot do it here
among the people who heard the
speech. We are informed that Cap
tain lIasslcrda deny BOwn'scharge
at Leon. Our readers here know that
there was nothing in the report that
was not in the speech. The language
is in n great measure the same,
though not always, but if there was
II sentiment or opinion published in
our report that was not warranted by
the speech as delivered, and if that
fact isshown, we. will, even now, do
Brown the justice 10 make public the
wrong done and make itfight.
But the trouble is not that the
report was not honest, but that 1t
was too honest. Brown is not in
The habit, as we have said, Of hav-
ing fearless newspaper men, as sin