The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-10-11


candidate for Prosecuting Attorney.
With the letter are the affidavits of
Alonzo Carsey and John McCulloch,
President of the Bank of this place,
and 7. Stribling and c. G. Bowyer,
Cashiers of the Bank.
Mr.. Boilers letter and afidavits
are explanatory of themselves; and
they show what desperate efforts
are being resorted to defeat Mr..
Beller for the Office for which he is
running. The effort thus intended
to be made, is damnable and terribly
wrong. In political campaigns all
parties are justifiable in spreading
the truth, and in using whatever
means that are calculated to give
the people fair and just UNDER
standing of the issues involved in
the campaign, but when it comes
that an honest mans character is to
be blackened and called in question,
because that man is candidate for
office, it is time for the people, ire
spective of party, to place the seal
of condemnation upon the party or
people, who attempt such destable
purposes.
Mr.. Boiler is a young man 50
years af age, and has been a resi-
dent of Mason county for twenty
years, and during this time he has
been more or less a public charact-
er. He was raised upon the farm
and knows what tits to be poor and
to. work. Whom he was Is years of
age he became school teacher and
followed that honorable calling for
eight years, teaching during the
winter; and the balance of the year
he worked on his fathers farm
During his time as teacher, he
taught in the best schools in the
county, having taught in most of
graded schools of the county, and
finally closed his school work by
teaching two terms successfully in
the public schools of Point Pleas
ant. He was also for three years a
member of the Board of Examiners
for the county.
For the last ninc years Mr.. Beller
has been a member of the Mason
county Bar, and practiced also in
other counties. What he is, is due
to his own efforts. He gained
his education in the schools
of our county. He is now, and has
been for the last four years one of
the Justices of the Peace for Lewis
District, and has in that time tried
over two thousand cases. He was
elected to the Office by a large ma
Jority, without his solicitation. In
fact, he at first refused to qualify,
but as the people had elected him,
he gave his bond, and has made one
of the most satisfactory and capa-
Bile Justices of the Peace the county
has ever had; and by virtue of his
Office thousands of dollars has pass
ed through his hands, and every
cent accounted for.
He is now, and has been for sew
eral years, the Treasurer of the
Mason County Agricultural and Me-
chanical Association, and no wrong
doing has ever been limited at.
He is also now, and has been, for
several years, clerk of the Board of
Education of Lewis District, an inn
portant Office, and no wrong doing
has been charged against him.
We know that his reputation for
honesty and fair dealing is as high
as any mans in the county; and
those who have done business with
him and who know him can and
will, regardless of politics, give him
the name and character, of an
honest man, and one who, though
a candidate for public office would
not for. party advantage seek to in
jure the character of any man. We
in this issue of our paper show
the people the methods of some to
defeat MIR. Beller. We know Mr..
Bellcr TO be straightforward and
honest, and know that he is'capabie,
determined and positive, and should
he be elected, the people will never.
have cause TO regret their choice.
The law will be honestly, fairly and
impartially carried into effect.