Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-05-19
Senator NewberrY on the Secrets of the
Prison House.

WytheuiUe Dispatch (Readjuster) May 11th.
A large number of people assembled in
the courthouse last Monday to hear Capt.
Newberry. At 70 CLOCK he took the stand
without preliminaries, and said:
Fellow citizens OF Wythe County, l
come to-day to render to you an account
of my stewardship. [ am not ia the habit
of coming back and telling what [ have
done, but have been SO bitterly pursued
and bounded by the Malone press that
feel it my duty to myself as well as a right
of my constituents that | should stand
here to-day and answer for myself. Such
opprobious eplthets as TRAITOR" Urea
son, - etc. have been cast at me from every
section of the State, and [ come to de-
nounce and point out the real traitor.
II was elected Readjuster, [ have aided
| in carr, ing out every principle laid down
| in the last platform of the party; The Rid
| dleberger Bill, the abolition of whipping,
| posts, the $1.00 prerequisite to voting, and
| felt myself at liberty to protest against
ANYTHING objected to beyond these three
| principal measures. First came the judi
| cial bill l thank Ged did not vote for
| it =! Then the Commissioner of Sales bill, y
which destroyed the Readjuster claim to
| be party Of the people, when it made the
| OOVtIHOI LllC vi tIlE IhIlu
appointees who would have the soil and
| the people alike at command; although
| with this exception, a good bill, The
Notary Public's bill,' which proposed to
vacate the offices of the five hundred no
had already paid five dollars for their com
| missions and allowed the Governor to ap-
| point five hundred more, and the bill pro-
posing TO vacate the offices of every school
commissioner-those who serve for moth
| ing-were alike revolutionary and wrong.
| But had they succeeded they would have
all been pledged to Malone and his party.
| Following the crash of these Legislative
| failures came the eapportionment bill, y
| prepared in Snelling'S restaurant, under
| the supervision of that Boss who controls
every department of the goverment-from
the Governor down: Boss of the Legisla-
ture. Boss of railroads; the dictator who
left Washington and took headquarters in
gambling bell in Richmond instead Of q
decent hotel. This bill was legislative
monstrosity in violation OF the conStitu-
tion-not made up in the interest of the
Democratic or the Republican party, but
in the interest of Malone. With this bill
he sold Virginia, but protested against
the delivery [applause] Arnold sold his
army !; Judas Iscarlot sold his maker for
thirty pieces of silver. ard Guiteau, on
whose bloody hands rests the blood of a
martyred President. had something in view.
When turned TRAITOR did not get
thirty pieces of silver, but | could have
cotton 5000, perhaps $4,000 [Laughter]
Malone is the Arnold, the Judas Iscariot,
the traitor, that forces bis brother Virgin
ian 10 bow the knee before him before he
can hold place or honor. He is like the
owl whose eyes are panied with the light
of day, and goes croaking and hooting a.
round through the night.
! "Now; what did you send me there for
I did not 90 there to wear brass dog col
lar. but as free and Independent senator.
Malone wants eight congressman, and
with his vote in the Senate, the balance of
power in the halls of national legislation.
"Treason ~ want to make it odious in
Virginia but want to make the name of
Malone stink in the nostrils of every hon
est white man in Southwestern Virginia,
and and i viii do it OF wear out my lungs in
the attempt. He has dictated all things