The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1882-08-30

Committee organized last Wednesday
by electing Col. F, W. sisson, Chair
man, ]. NJ. Polsley, Secretary, Vim.
stribling, Assistant Secretary, and
Isaiah Curry, Treasurer.
Capt. Gibson ut Parkcrsburg.
On Wednesday night last Capt.
Eustice Gibson, Democratic candi,
date for Congress in this District,
addressed the citizens of Parkersburg.
His speech is said to be the grand
est effort of his life, and won for him
many friends and admirers. From
the report of his speech published in
the Sentinel, we make the following
extracts:
"He said he desired to make per-
sonal explanation, and did so by re.
ferring to speech made by o. G.
Scofeld few days beforein this city,
who charged the speaker with drunk.
enness. Captain Gibson could not
leave personal SANDER go unrcbuked,
and therefore took up Scofeld for
vigorous dissection. He denounced
him as a whiskey gauger who drank
all the whisky he could steal; II com.
mon slanderer,a hypocrite, and finally
a man whose lust had startled the
midnight air with the screams of a
chaste maiden of the opposition par
ty.
"Mr. Gibson then stated that in
this matter he was acting on the de.
fcnsive. He had hoped 10 make this
campaign one Of fairness and frank
hess, discussing public and political
affairs, and not private characters,
but ifthe opposition forced the fight
ing he would be found ready and will
ing. He did not purpose TO shirk
any responsibility and would consid-
er he alone was responsible for any
OF MS ubteTanceS.
"Mr. Gibson then referred to his
own life and stated how be was or.
phaned in early life, and fought his
way through the world uuaided and
unencouraged. Through poverty he
was never able to attend school after
he was Y years of age. Thrown up
on his own resources he performed
such manual labor as he could get to
do. He worked in the harvest field,
on the highways, in the forests,
wherever he could get work he did it,
in the meantime struggling to secure
a knowledge of the law. At last he
was admitted to the Bar and was
elected to the Constitutional Conyen-
ton of Virginia. When the war
crisis came on he voted and spoke
against secession, but after the pass
age of the Ordinance he cast his lot
with his people and became Confed-
crate soldier. AS to his war record
his wounds would testify. After the
war, wounded, distressed, overcome
by poverty, homeless and almost
without Il coantry, he returned to his
native county and took up the prac-
tice of law. He was elected as Dem
ocrat a member Of the Reconstruct,
ion Legislature of Virginia, and in
that body was chosen by the caucus
to be the leader of the Democratic
hosts on the floor Of the House. He
then removed to Cabell county, where
he still resides. In the famous Jacob
Camden campaigned he took the
side of Camden and stumped that
part OF the State fer him. Since then
he has been a Presidential Elcctor
and Speaker of the House of Dele
gates.
Speaking Of the nomination he
said that he had not spent one cent
10 secure the nomination. He paid
no delegates expenses to or from, or
at, the Convention. He did not use
u single glass of beer or whisky to
interest a delegate His nomination
was the act of his friends TO whom
his gratitude was unbounded.
."He then viewed the address issued
by the Republican Executive Com
mlttee and showed how utterly
bare faced and unreliable its state
ments were, and by comparison Of
facts and figures showed that charges
Of extravaganza against the Demo-
cratic party were false from begin
ming to end.
Recurring to the prohibition
question he referred to W. p. Hub
bard, who was the Republican leader
in the last legislature, and showed
conclusively that to his efforts in a
large degree the people are indebted
for the failure to submit the Amend.
ment. lie also showed how the Re-
publican Congressional Convention
lodged the issue and failed to make
an utterance for or against the ques-
ton.
"Hc referred also to the question of
tariff and said he was in favor Of Il
tariff for revenue, and for a just and
equitable system of protection to the
manufacturer, the laborer and the
consumer. He was, however, oppos.
ed to a system that protected and en-