Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1876 — Hon. Geo Major vs. Hon. D. D. Pratt. [ARTICLE]

Hon. Geo Major vs. Hon. D. D. Pratt.

In hit speech at Exchange Hall Monday evening, Hon. Geo. Miyor told of a private conversation between himself and senator Pra't, on the train, after the Hon. Daniel had labored bo bard at this place. Mr. Major was speaking of the present hard times, and oontraotiun. Mr. Pratt said that during the war he had $50,000 in gold on interest, and when greenbacks were issued he was oliged to take them in exchange for his gold. ‘‘Now,*’ said he “by a reversion of affairs the money power is on top.” Mr Major also truthfully told them that Hon. Daniel D. Pratt had not a single interest in common with the laboring man; that he was a bondholder and an aristocrat; *h>t for years a poor man’s foot had never trod the Brussels carpets in his parion nor a laboring man’s sh-dow crossed the threshold of his palatial home. And yet he was telling the laboring man how bo should oast his ballot.— Remington Record. Logawsport, Sept. 25, 1876. Mr. W. H. Shaw:—ileur Sir; I thank you for sending me a copy of the Remington Record of the 22d inst., containing the editor’s abstract of the speech at Exchange Hall on Monday evening by Geo. M; jor, state senator. I hope the editor misunderstood Mr. Major’s remarks. I would not willingly believe that one holding his social and political position could so far forget the proprieties of a gentleman as to report private conversations to a public audience. This I could overlook if he bad told the truth. I never said to him, or to any man, that I had $50,000 In gold at interest before the war; I never had such a sum at internet before the war-—or any sum approaching to it. It seems that he also reported me as having no interest in common with the laboring man; that I waa a bond holder and aristocrat; that in years no poor man’s toot bad touched the Brussels carpet on my parlors, or crossed my threshold. lam a laboring man myself, and always have been. I own one bond on the United States calling for $2,500, and no more. My door is open to any decent man. Let my neighbors who know my mode of lite answer whether I am an aristo crat. I find it bard to believe that a man who took special pains to converse with me on the cars, to whom I waa in trod need by an esteemed minister of the gospel as a worthy man, should be guilty of such extraordinary performances as the editor reports on Mr. Major. I hope he will hasten to repudiate the report. The only foundation in the world for what be save is a remark I made ot the effect the greenback law bad upon existing orodJlnrs who Lad loaned money before the day of greenbacks, and who were compelled to receive greenbacks in payment, although : wot wtn-tb, I believe, in gold emo-

half the amount loaned. I did apeak of my own cbm, bnt gave no auch ruin aa 850.000, a sum which far sxesded all I waa worth ar that time in houses, land*, notes, mortgagee, etc. D. D. Pbatt.