The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-08-26
LIBERTY.

ApJusrgR ORATOR ARRAiGSs THE CoNsER'A-
TIVE PARrY--READJUsTER HYPOCRISY Ex-
POSED By CAPTAIN xKrssEY-NAHoNE CAN.
yAssgRs AS GARFIELD MEN-A MEETING
THAT WAS ADVANTAGEOUS TO OUR CAUSE
PERSONAL, &C., &C
rcondeused from Lynchburs NewsI
Yesterday was big day for Liberty. Be-
sides the usual routine OF the County Court,
which was soon disposed Of, and the street
medicine-yenders, which were not disposed
Of at all, the political discussion IN ware
house was the absorbing event OF the gay.
Although the meeting was cal'ed oy tne
Conservatives, Captain RiddleDerger wouId
hear TO no programme that ola not give
him the advantage. Finally captain I. w.
Mckinney agreed to lead on In one hour
and fifteen minutes, Captain h'oo'eperger
to follow In one hour anu Iorty,nVe lnih-
utes; Mckinney then to have thirty MN
utes, and Riddleberger TO close In nileeh
minutes.
A large and eager crowd gathered In the
warehouse. all on tiptoe OF expectation.
Cnntain Mckinney said he came 70 reason
with tbe people. without mAice to any and
with charity to all. II, upon taking coun-
sci with them, he were persuaded
THE MALONE TICKET
was the proper bona fde Democratic ticket
that would elect Hancock and Eng'sh, ne
would strike his col0rs and give his support
TO that ticket. IL he could persuade any DEM
ocratic Readjuster that the Conservative
was the true.blue ticket, he would expect
them to support 1t. The Readlusters don I
claim but 65. 900 votes, and yet in 1876,
when there was no hope OF carrying the
State for HAYES and hardly any canvass
made, the Republicans polled $4,000 votes,
which beats the highest claim OF the Re
adjnster party by 10000 majority, In
spite OF all your winning ways and
YOUR equitable division OF spoils prom
ised the negroes by Captain Blair Captain
Frank Blair was present on the stand).
! Are we to risk all the hopes OF the Demo
cracy upon the party boast OF majority ?
Rut the claim is not well founded, and they
know IL. They are weaker than the regular
marty. and their leaders know IL. They have
proved it by their actions. Every Read
ipster who expected to vote for the Demo-
cratic nominees was invited to participate
in the primaries and send delegates to the
Democratic Convention OF the 10Th May, and
| il their leaders were conscious OF MAORI
ty they would have taken part in the prima-
ries, sent Readjuster majority to the Con-
yention il they so desired. and could thus
haze captured and controlled that ConUen'
ton.
We invited them to
OUR CONVENTION.
We couldn't 90 to theirs, because not eX-
pected, not invited, and not wanted. Cap
tain Mckinney here gave a very eloquent
and stirring picture OF Ex-Governor Gene
raj Kemper, whose voice was heard plead
isy for the old fashioned Democracy upon
every hilltop in Virginia long before Rid
deberger was born, applying for admission
TO the Malone 7th.of-July Convention, and
secuted from its doors, while WOLF,
deep.dyed Republican, was welcomed, and
negroes, who have never yet renounced
their allegiance to the Republican party,
were embraced and taken into counsel.
IL we 90 to you, your platform ties our
hands for all time TO readiustment princi.
piles, while If you come TO us, after this great
| fight with our ancient enemy is over, you
are perfectly free to support any State policy
you think proper.
Captain II. II. Riddleberger claimed to
represent the Conservative party, and that
Mckinney and all bis party bOted in 1878,
and are boilers still. They are Democrats
only in name. The Democratic platform
declares for home rule, yet your party gave
THREE FUNDERs
| in Richmond power to bind the state and
nut an end to representative government by
| issuing loan certificates. The Cincinnati
platform declares for free suffrage. The Re-
adjusters are for free suffrage and the Con-
| >eryatlyes are against it. They exempted
the State bonds from taxation forever, and
that's not Democratic.
Here the Captain launched out into vio-
| lent arraignment Of the Conservative party
for Its many iniquities and manifold corrup-
tons, all brought to light and punishment
by the patriotic Readiusters. They found
s(olen coupons, or coupons twice redeemed,
| in the CAPITOL, and therefore Kemper ought
to have been turned out. They found that,
notwithstanding expensive machinery in
the penitentiary, that institution, under
Funder rule, was losing thirty-fve cents
on every pair OF shoes manufactured, and
- cents on every barrel-an aggre-
gate expense to the State OF $4,000 per
month, while under Readiuster rule 1t
Yields the State that much. They found a
defacaIion in the Storekeeper OF 100000.
Massey caught Funder sergeant cheat
ing the State OF clothes for cOnyicts. Many
other startling discoveries the piOus Massey
had made, all for the good of the people,
Garfield is to be turned out for corruption
and the Funders TO be smashed for the same
reason.
In reply to Captain McKinney's question,
why he didn't send delegates to the Cincin-
natl Convention, Riddleberger said they
had two
GOOD REASONS.
First. 1t wasn't necessary, for Hancock
w
giuia-sbe had no voice in 1t {; and secondly,
fund to 20 upon.
The Captain discussed many things
deliberately and ingeniousv.
He spoke Of John w. Daniels currency
speech in Lynchburg in 1873, and OF Me-
Culloch being q public liar by the records
OF Democratic Congress OF his riddle
berger's) having Hancock's name in his pa
per before the Convention met; that he saw
| General Echols in the Staunton COnven-
ton; that he watched both Conventions !;
| that the Conservative party fell into line be-
| hind Ross Hamilton that Yankee Allan
tried to capture Dungee for the Funders (;
| that Hill Carter voted for Wickham; that
Holiday had nullited the will OF the peO-
pie; that Mof1ett was mad, and james Bar
bour had lost his senses, when they de-
serted the Readiusters; that Malone was
fighting when your Ran. fuckers, your
Goodies, &C., were at home; that the yeo-
manry was fighting the aristocracy. &c, &c.
The Captain made visible impression
| on
THE CROWD,
and he held them together well. He is a
fine stump-speaker-bo in his positions,
cunning in his arguments, and ready and