The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-10-29

Eicdieberger the worst Oi All
when we quoted the other day from inc
soeesofoyss report o. Mr.. RDpLHnERcERs
sneech at stanton last Monday we could
hardly credit the statement therein MADE az
tells declarations in regard to the binding
na,pre Of an unconstitutional set OF Con-
oress. But it was even so. lie did commit
himself 20 the most odlons doctrine OF con-
solidation and centrslism that has ever been
proclaimed in Virginia. In Confederation
Of tho Spectators report cnowrcproduce
what The Valley Virginian reports him to
have said on that point. II is as follows;
"lIe said that when he subscribed TO the
Conctitution Of the United States and 10 the
conditions upon which Virginia was read
,nitted 10 representation in the national
conncjls. he there and then, in common
with every voter in the State, solemniy
svore that tho Constitution OF the state, as
n tbeu stood, should never be so altered
and amended as TO disfranclise any class OF
citizens then entitled to exercise the right
NJ sunraee. This imposition OF The capita
tion-tax restriction was in direct violation
III ttqt solemn oath, and perjury was
added 70 the crime OF restricting free bal
10. when that amendment to the State Con-
stilulion was adopted"
Here Mr. RmDIEnEROER mreseryedly
commits himself 70 the doctrine that the
people Of Virginia can NEVER change
their Constitution so a. to disfrancbise any
body that the Radical Congress OF 1870 dc
clsred should not be DISTINGUISHED. The
outrage upon the people Of Virginia which
would be involved in thus binding her for
ever 20 the car OF Radical Republication Is
urspeakablc. There is no ground what
ever for Mr.. RIDDLEBERGER's charge OF
~perjury" against all the best men in Viz
ginia. Congress had no more right 10
imposc the terms he speaks OF upon
the people Of Virginia than the Parliament
o; Great Britain had. The declaration in
an act OF Congress that Virginia should
never disiranchise her paupcrs and pet
ty-larceny thieves they were voters in
1869. nor any other class OF voters enti-
tied 10 a vote under the UNDERWOOD Con-
stitution. was a gratuitous insult to the
people Of tins State. II meant nothing and
could mean nothing. Congress has no
more right to prescribe the qualifications OF
voters in Virginia than in any other State
tina: is, has no right ut all to do So, il Mr..
RIDDLEBERGER really holds, as he so sol
EMMY declared that he did, that Virginia
is bound up in iron bands which she can
never sander, and must forever allow
paupers and persons convicted OF petty
larceny to vote because they could vote
under The UNDERWOOD Constitution, then
he IS unfit 70 hold any Office OF trust or
profit in this honored old Commonwealth.
The campaign has brought out no such
"damning rccord' IN the case Of any
other man. RIDDLEBEgGER stands alone in
the glory or the disgrace Of proposing to
allow a Radical Congress TO bind his
mother State in chains forever and for
eyer-to bind her, too, by means Of an I'M
constitutional act OF COngrcss-an act
which is totally destitute OF force-an act
which was null and void irem the very
first minute OF its presence upon the
statute-book-an act to which the people Of
Virginia never gave their assent, and
which was passed long after the election OF
1901 Mr.. RIDDLEBERGER is the only man
in Virginia whom we have ever heard Of
that swore in 1859 or at any other time to
support an act of Congress, which was
passed in 1870. And yet he solemny de-
clared, says his faithful ally the Valley Vir-
girian, that the imposition Of the capita
tion-tax restriction "lcdS in direct viola
ton Of that solemn oaihl"
But comment upon such a speech is USE
less. Neither CAMERON nor BLAIR will dare
TO endorse Mr.. RIDDLEBERGER's PROPOSE
ton. Nor win General MALONE. Nor
would Judge HUGHES.
People Of Virginia, vote for DANIEL,
BARBOUR, and MCKINNEY il you condemn
the outrageous doctrines advocated by Mr..
RlDDLEBERGER.
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