The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1880-09-15
Reply o gTr. D. II. willard.

lctaAiut tiiS OpSn bcttSi vi ~ II.
Willard in last weeks Tribune Moni.
Or was only equalled BY their
reluctance to believe him the auth
or. They are SLOW to believe that he
would accuse any one Of them Of Of
fering any indignity to a lady, or
melting any other one to SO base an
action. Nor can they for amoment
discern ihenscessily of using them
as a medium through whom his ac-
acknowledgements should betendered.
They would much prefer applying
the mantle Of charity and believing
that ehasheeshn or some other intox-
icating element had waited his pen
intothe realms Of hate and bitter
ness, and that the "Open Letter" was
the otfshoOt Of some distempered
dream, that he was driven to such
extremeties to manufacture political
Icapitalas to accuse the gentlemen
who compose this Committee of in
citing ainob to insult his family and
Eliminating that they would in any
lmapnrl pRroyeo Of such conduct.
That Democrats are not alone Civ
en- toprofanity and obscenity while
passing dwelling-houses, portions Of
the Committee addressed have had
frequent opportunities of fully reali-
sing, but never yet did it occur to
them that they were sent on their
noisy and indecent GRAND, from the
Republican Headquarters and the
fact that such a thing so readily oc,
ours to the Chairman Of the Repub.
|lican Central Committee, leads them
to the conclusion that it is barely
possible that they may have receiv.
led their instructions from that
source. 8,o
The fact that a majority Of the
noisy andtindecentgentleme refer.
red to in the "0pen Letter" have
been ascertained to belong to the
same party that D. II. Willard does,
leads to the conclusion that the eyi.
dences Of Southern chiyalry, 1indica,
ted by him, do not exist alone among
the Democrats, and to that Eportion
at least Of the noisy party who be.
long to the party Of "Great moral
ideas"
We would suggest with great def.
erence, that the writer of the aOpen
Letter. might from his lofty perch
of self-imposed exclusivcness at least
bend low enough to assume the con.
genial task of expressing his admi.
ration Of their chiyalric conduct
without invoking the mediation Of
the democratic Central Commit
tee
Asto he.election Of Hancock de.
istroying the last barrier to the pro.
lection offree speech and free politi.
cal action in the South, we have but
to say that when he is elected, the
bayonet will be Withdrawn, and there
will be no need Of the shotgun poll,
cy to enable men of any color, to get
to the polls, but all men, Of every
color, will have their rights under
the civil law, which will be held su-
perior to the military. The much
derided order No. 40, will be enforc-
ed and free speech and free political
action will assuredly find as much IA
yor under the administration Of the
author Of that order as it would I'M
der the dominion of Garfield who
has demonstrated his eternal fiji,
ness"by his association with Eliza
Pinkston and other kindred cattle
in doctofing election returns at the
Custom House in New Orleans, by
the fairness evinced in the s to Z
Commission, aud the honesty shown
in the Credit Mobilier and DeGoyler
frauds.
Awaiting with some curiosity the
next distempered hallucination
which may eminate from the author
of the "open Letter." We are
Respectfully,
| c. SEHON,
]. J. BRIGHT,
j. A. McCULL0CH,
j. b. McGUFFIN,
H. R. HOWARD,
Mason County Democratic Executive
Committee.
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