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

and the debt lett. Anu
now | say let those who brought on
the war nay that debt-we will not.
! have often served you. Your coup'
~ court recently employed me to
bring suit against the 'Rayenswood
bridge contractors, and got ludg-
ment against them in favor OF the
county for $4,000. They appealed.
il is true; but | will be at Wheeling
next winter, and if | don't get the
money, III pay the debt.
When Hassler thought he was beat
at Winfield he went to John II. Ri
lev and asked him to run indepen-
dent, and can prove it. And just
before the election he or others will
raise that old cry about the county
seat. Don't let him do it. l shall
never touch your county seat, and i
if would. The constitution
can't do it. l never agitated that
question.
CAPTAIN HAssLER's REMARKS.
Mr.. Hassler stated that he was not
in the habit Of making speeches, but
he could try to reply to some of the
gentleman's remarks; and he would
in the first place inform his audience
that he was not standing on Browns
platform. Brown had no platform
now, and never had had any princi'
ples. The plank which they all
signed at Ravenswood, himself and
other Democrats, was stolen .frpmtbe
Winfield platform. Thereiwas moth:
ing in what 1hey had signed but
what any Democrat could heartily
endorse, and on that stolen plank
Judge Brown expected to float into
Office.
Mr.. Hasslcr said he stobdhere upon
tho Winfield platform and he then
read that platform as his declaration
of principles, and as set forth BY the
representatives, Of the party that had
nominated him. No one had nom
mated Brown. He was a self-solici'
ted candidate on stolen platform; a
man who had been n secessionist, a
Radical, a Democrat, n Republican,
and the Lord knows what else, and
who had now selected himself as the
great whang doodle of the National
Naturalization l-Republican
Democratic and.Shark- Labor Bond
holder. Greenback.Independent can.
didatc for the State Senate.
He cuts off the coupons Of his
bonds and puts them up for the mon
ey with which to conduct his can.
vass on the Greenback platform
That is our platform and always was.
1t was on that platform that Thur
man made his canvass in Ohio in
1867, and George II. Pendleton in
1865. And when he talks about
Bayard and Herman and Conkling,
he don't mention the Democratic
Greenback Senators Thurman, Mer-
rimon, Gordon, Hereford and Davis.
The Democratic party remonetized
silver that the Republican party had
domonetize,l; and the gentleman had
acted with the republicans after that
act OF infamy, the Resumption Act,
was passed., and only comes out for
Greenbucks when he finds Greenbacks
are popular in this region. The
country got into its present deplor.
able condition under Republican
rule, and Brown was with the Repub-
lican party all the time while the
mischief is being done. His object
in coming out of it now is too trans
parent. He is the humble follower
in this section of Henry S. Walker,
on the Kanawha, Brick Pomeroy, in
Chicago, Kearney in California, and
Ben Butler, in Massachusetts, and
they all say that both the old parties
are $50 corrupt that arc can't stay
with them any longer" A nice
crowd, truly, to condemn other peO-
plel
Brown and his henchmen had
attacked his military record TO
prove that he had been u Radical
At Cottageville last Saturday night,
j. II. Riley had said that Hassler
was Radical, and had attempted to
prove that by showing that he had q
bill passed by a Radical Congress for
his relief in order to enable him
[Hassler1 to settle with the govern
ment, hiE accounts being 81, 900 short.
Riley has charged that he must have
been a good Radical or he could not
have gotten that bill passed, aud he
GRiley had vouched to Senator Bore
man for his beinga good Radical
Brown had reiterated those charges
here to-day, and he would prove them
both to be liars by his army record
and the papers, and would show how
much these gentlemen missed it
when they cast slurs upon his char.
acter as u soldier. But this SANDER
upon his army record could be easily
refuted, and he would proceed to do
that by producing the papers. He
assisted in organizing the first com.
pany raised in the North for the war:
A memorial addressed to Congress by
him and his associates in that com.
pany claiming recognition as the
pioneer organization Of the war show.