The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1892-09-16
WEAVERS RECORD.
A LITTLE HISTORY RECALLED BY
HIS NOMINATION.
Graf PAYS ITS RESPECTS TO THE
PEOPLES PARTY CANDIDATE.


PEOPLES PARTY CANDIDATE.
KEoKUK, Iowa, September 30
A very interesting and significant let.
ter has been received by citizen OF
Keokuk from an old gentleman living
in Pulaski, Tenn, where Gen. Weaver,
the Peoples Party candidate for Presi-
dent, had command in the latter part
Of the war. The sentiments contained
in the letter will doubtless be spread
abroad throughout the South and
put the Peoples Party candidate on
the defensive when he enters upon
the canvass in that section where his
friends claim he is so strong. A por-
ton of the letter reads as follows !:
I" He (Weaver) will eclipse Bull Nelson
or Ben Butler so far as the double
dyed william reaches. | send you o.
piece cut from the Giles County Demo
crat of the Goth, and vouch for tho
truth of every word. All three of the
men were old friends of mine. He
(Weaver) had Baker Shepard, George
Petway and S. W. McGrew arrested,
and would have arrested me if it had
not been for McGrew. When they
passed my house McGrew told him |
was deaf Weaver sent Shepard and
Petway out of the lines. Messrs. New
bill, Rhodes and Alternately paid him
the money. These are the facts and
can be proved. He was perfect ter
ror to both men and women. The
refugees never received one cent of
the money. All of the old citizens are
dead now. Most of them were very
old at the time. Weaver will get very
few votes south of Mason and Dixon's
line." The following is the clipping
referred to above, headed Something
About Weaver:r
HIGHWAY ROBBERY.
General Weaver, while in command
at Pulaski, in January in 1864, issued
an order to Charles C. Alternately,
John H. Newbill, Robert Rhodes and
others that they pay into his hands
81 900 for the maintenance of refugees
(meaning negroes and renegades from
Alabama)' This order was accompa-
MED by a threat that, if the money was
not paid, they and their families would
be sent South and their property given
to said refugees. All of these parties
are dead now and were over sixty
years old when that order was issued.
Can any Southern man vote for such
a heartless wretch9
THE COTTON TWIST ROBBERY.
A man by the name of G. w. Witt
sold Mr.. Jasper Cox-a very poor man
two thousand pounds of bacon, for
which he received the cash. Mr. Cox
took the bacon to the cotton mills in
Lawrence county and traded it for
cotton twist. This he carefully slowed
away in the loft of his little cabin,
thinking that it would assist him in
purchasing little home after the war
as he was very poor, with a large fami
ly and had no home. Weaver learned
through some source that this gentle.
man had the cotton twist and sent a
detachment of soldiers to his house and
took possession of it, and shipped it tc
Iowa for his own use.
This cotton twist was worth at tn,
time it was stolen, $4,000.
Jasper Cox is living in Giles county
ROBBERY OF HOGS AND TURKEYS.
John P. Williams, poor but highl,
esteemed farmer in Giles county, hat
twenty-five fat hogs, which at tina
time were worth ten dollars per hun
dred, gross, and lot of turkeys
Weaver, in person, took file of sol
diers out to Williams place and mad,
the soldiers shoot every hog on tn,
place, and had them brought to camp
When Williams asked for a voucher
Weaver said: 81 don't give rebels il
the South vouchers. l would rathe
furnish rope to hang every d--n on
of them" Mr.. Williams is still living
and will SWEAR to tho q hova ~ oaoac
sary.
The hogs were valued at $3.50.
The turkeys belonged to Mrs. vii
liams, and she begged to have ther
spared, but the heartless wretch ha
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