The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-06-02
WISE AND NEwpERRY AT BLAND
Another Account OF the Ciasn OIL "rou"-
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Row-Great Excitement.
IT, ,bs Editor of the Dispatch:

nubjjsbed and bruited abroad that on the
BAD of Nav Captain John s. Wise, OF Ricli-
mond. was TO meet and dcmolish Captain
Newberry, the distinguished leader OF the
Rio -Four. at his own county town, and, as
tbe Vh1 had IL, Ncwberry to be then and
there
" SKINNED TO FURNISH A READJUsTER H0LI-
DAY."
This report had brought together con-
siderable crowd. At about i. NJ. the
court-house bell was rung and proclama-
tion made that there would be public
speaking, and Captain Wise. Captain Nc
Caul, and J. $. Browning, Governor Cam
cron's private secretary, walked briskly
down the street and entered the court
house. Your correspondent followed and
found but few persons there. After wait
ing for some time with empty seats, the
deputy sheriff again made proclamation to
the pcople on the street to come into the
courthouse and hear public speaking; and
il was now ascertained that Captain New
berry. with a large crowd, was at the hotel
still engaged at dinner. At length
CAPTAIN WISE WAS INTRODUCED
by JUDGE Wylie, and commenced by say
inc to the people that he was here as Re-
adjuster, TO discuss and defend its princi-
piles and measures, and not to appeal 10
their passions or their bad blood, but to
their reason and their judgment; and the
speakers voice soon rose and began to echo
i'm loud and emphatic cadences through the
hall. He had uttered but few sentences
when Captain Newberry entered and as
cended the rostrum, and the seats then
began rapidly TO till up. Turning to Cap
tain Newberry, the speaker said: elf In
the course OF my remarks | should refer to
YOU aS dirty or drunken Newberry, ~ you
in your speech at Wytheyillc did to certain
other parties. what will you do about 1T"
''Tll call YOU TO account for it," said New
berry; "and I'll render it." said Wise.
But Captain Wise never used either OF
those epithets rs applied to Captain New
berry. but proceeded in a clear, forcible,
and able speech TO defend and vindicate
the
LEADING MEASURES OF REIMBURSEMENT
PASSED at the recent session OF the Legis-
lature, the debt and coupon bills, the ap-
preparation TO the school fund, the ample
and humane provisions for our insane
and deaf and dumb asylums, and also the
defeated mcasurcs-thc land-cOmmiSsion-
er's bill and the judiciary and congress
sional bils-and in ringing tones warned
the people that ii the Funders regain the
power at the next election the reddiust-
ment Of the public debt will yet be de-
feated, and thirty-thrce instead Of twenty
millions will be collected from them by the
bondholdors. He defended Arthur's adj
ministratiOn: denied that there is any dif-
ference in principle between the two M
liona parties: alluded TO the diversity OF
opinion on the tariff; defended Malone :
vote i'm the Tcbbs case, and denounced
Massey rs the tTaitorous author and coE-
coctcr OF the entire schi,m OF the Big
Four: said Captain Ncwbcrry should be
ashamed Of himself for following his lead
ership. and thereby betraying the party that
elected him. and charged 4 bargain on Mas
sev and the Biz -Four with the Funders to
let each OF them run for Congress without
Fundcr opposition. Captain Wise sus-
tanned his high reputation rs a speaker, and
was accorded 4 courteous and uninter-
ruptcd hearing by Captain Newberry and
his friends (only one question being asked
Of him while spcaking).
CAPTAIN NEwBERRY's REPLY
vas from the beginning cool and collected,
and from his manner. not unconscious OF
the taunt heretofore flung out that he was
now to lie squclchcd by this champion OF
the Boss" but with a determined pur-
pOSc-as sans peuy It sans reprOdche-to
turn the tables on his assailant at whatever
cost. Many OF his RoadiuStcr friends and
Others. irrespective OF party, all Of whom
concedc to him the highest integrity OF
purpose and conScicnciOusnCSs in action,
now bent forward attcntiyely TO hear him.
From the very first sentence he was warmly
and pointcdly aggressive, and poured out
on his antagonist present and his ASSISTANTS
generally a torrent OF whitening rebuke and
scathing denuncialion such as the writer
has rarely if ever heard. Whether il is the
peculiar manner Of Captain Wise, or wle-
Their goaded, stung. and maddened by the
incessant stream of hOt-shOt prccipitated
upon him, he seemed 20 show the effect
thereof by much perturbation, and tried
by frequent impairment Interruptions TO
divert the steady aim Of his powerful and
fearless assailant. Captain Ncwberry told
HIM at the outset, "lOu are here
UNDER ORDERS FROM YOUR BOSS,
and as his political bulldog to hunt and
hound me down here in my own county,
Dctdllst 1 tllO>t 10 lNibN ulN wv II 'NllN "
tons OF duty rather than his corrupt die
tates." "You are here a. his bulldog 10
do his bidding" eyes, you wear his col
lar now around your neck, and ! am here
TO tell YOU of it," Captain Wise replied,
"'Thc collar has made the hair grow on your
neck" "Thank God" rejOined Mr.. New
berry, "my neck has never yet worn col
lar or owned Boss" Mr.. Newbcrry
charged upon Wise that lie had only join
ed the Readiusters for the sake OF the spoils
after Massey and FulkcrSon had planned
the campaign and organized victory, and
that Wise has never yet given but one Re-
adjustcr vote. To which Captain Wise re-
piled Gnterrupting hm) that his vote last
fall was rejected because he had moved
across the street into a different ward.
'Then." says Mr. Ncwberry. "you are a
pretty leader to lecture me about my votes,
when YOU don't know what ward 10 vote
in yourself"
NEwBERRY'S RECORD.
Captain Newbcrry said the charges OF
boiling, conspiracy, and treason heaped
upon him in the columns Of the Wing are
are all disproyen and falsilied by the Jour
nal Of the Senate, which shows that he
voted for every measure in the Readiuster
platiorm-even to the packing OF the SUI
preme Court: that he was not to blame for
the defeat OF the land-commissioner's bill
the Readiustcr party killed it rather than
allow the SAID commissioners to be elected
by the people; that he could not conscien-
tiously support the gerrymander OF the
congressional bill, and opposed the judi
ciary bill because the Fundcrs, if ut any
time in power, could adopt the precedent
and again remove the judges at will. He
Indignantly repealed every insinuation OF
bargain on his part for office, saying he eX-
pected merely TO be in his place in the
Legislature two years hence.
THE ROW BETWEEN CAPTAIN NEwBERRY AND
MIR. BROWNING.