The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1892-10-13
ment in the penitentiary LIE came

came to stand up N the pres 'fiee
these people and deny the charges
made against him. The witnesses aie
men of such characters that their lesli-
mony would be enough t, send
Weaver to the penitentiary if tried be-
fore any honest jury. There is not a
public official, not a minister Ct the
gospel, not man of known repute for
truth and probily in Giles county who
will not bear testimony to the high |
character OF these witnesses. They are
themselves men OF the very highest
standing. Think of an issue OF yerac-
ity between these men and Scoundrel
Weaver, kissing out his dirty lies from
behind the edge of the Lease woman's
garment against men who could not
kick him from their back doors with
out an act OF condescenscionl
Weaver denied that he had ever re-
ceived one dollar OF the money levied
upon the citizens of Pulaski. Liar and
fool! The receipts were given in his
own hand and signed with his own
name in those cases where he gave re.
ceipts at all.
He denies that he robbed a citizen of
$4,000 worth of cotton thread.
| Liar and fool
His own letter, written alter the war,
acknowledged the taking Of this pri-
vate property, and declared that he
had turned it over to Federal official
whom he named. Investigation show
ed that this statement was falsehood,
and there was never any record Of
what became OF it.
He solemnly declared that he had
never uttered one word against the
Southern people, aud that the pub
lished extracts from his speeches cir
culated throughout the State we're
campaign lies.
Liar and fool!
These very extracts were read upon
the floor of Congress by Mr.. Hender-
son, Of Iowa, and Weaver, upon the
floor OF Congress, admitted that they
we're correct, and declared that he had
no apologies to offer. His open and
public confession that he uttered these
foul ISLANDERS against the South appears
in the Congressional Record.
James B. Weaver is thus proven by
his own mouth, by the witness OF hi;
own hand, to be a scouudrel and o
liar. His own testimony proves many
of the charges made against him. The
rest OF the charges are supported by
the testimony of honest witnesses, and
opposed by nothing but the bare asser.
ton of self-convicted thief and liar
While Weaver was yet in Pulaski
with only the width of the street be
tween them and the place where The
white.faced and trembling cowar,
crouched behind the skirts OF his fe
male protectors, the citizens of Gile
county in mass meeting assembled, /
mass meeting comprising the best an(
bravest men OF the county, reitera
ted the charges made against this un
hung bandit. While this was goinj
on some of Viewers companions wer
pleading with citizens to save then
from bodily harm Weaver crept GU
OF town, and after he had got half wa,
to Nashville his white lips found cour
age to pronounce the men who adopt
ed these resolutions towards aud de
? famersl" This poor, miserable fugi
tive from boy and an egg
But wesuppese even Weaver under
: stands by this time what the people c
T Giles county think OF him After hay
J. ing received more ad vertisine tina
l. had been given to any other meetin
! in the State after it had been publish
u ed in every newspaper in the Union
9 after every effort had been made t
q attract crowd from adjoining cour
y ties and from Alabama, Weaver wa
met at the depot by detected ban
L OF forty b0rsemen, who never raise
r cheer, and he had by actual coun
a at the gate 325 men, women and Chi
4 dren in his audience, OF which numbe
n ninety-seyen were negros, with abor
o fifty Democrats and a lot of white RI
e publicans A more emphatic express
q ion of the supreme loathing and col
n tempt which honest men have for tn
g foul wretch could not be written Wit
" the pen or spoken with the tongue. Th
men who stayed at home did so fc