The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1883-10-04
IOI TIE III
Madison Ct. Ho.

Fowler met and scalped Barton to-day Sent
for Years. asSaad u t; maj mas
hours the packed assemblage stood unbroken
during the discussion. AS usual the FundeIs
declined to open and make good their Lynch
burg charge against the Liberal movement
which has replaced Virginia on the track OF
progress. But unawed by this assumption our
speaker for the day opened in speech of one
hour, in which he spiked the coming guns of
Barton and SO covered the field of argument
that when Rarton'S time came he reeled, stag
gered and founded until his connections SEEM
ed gone. He fled from the great issues of the
campaign, and dwelt on minute and unimpor-
tant details. Fowler displayed in condensed
style 1.-THE ruin of Virginia. while under Funder
misrule, and briefly but graphically con-
trasted that ruin with the present proud and
prosperous situation.
Hin his rejoinder of 80 minutes he set the audi
ence on fire, as have rarely seen done before
over the monstrous utterance of Barton, who
had said that eff this thing of mixed school
boards is not stopped you will live to see the
day when your sons and your daughters will
have muattO children. -
When Fowler denounced this monstrous ut
terance-that the daughters of the cultured
white people of Madison would have mulatto
children, even though and simply because any
enee To- the sh9%ld in obsdi
kemper, who had been carried in blanket from
the bloody field of Gettysburg, l thought that
audience, man, in its unity WOnld 90
wild
Certainly any people would have heard, said
he, with surprise and establishment, Barton's
declaration CATER spending large share of his
speech in pouring molasses over the colored
men) that they chad the mark of the halter on
their necks, and would of course bow their
heads and take the Malone collar; but that he
had lived to see the day when Virginia orator
numbered among "the best people of Va );
should say this thing of the white sons and
daughters of Madison to their fathers and BROTH
hers. could only be accounted for by the SUPPOSE
ton that much funderism had made him mad
and reason had abdieated her imperial throne
Barton exhibited about the only life there was
thought Of RiddebergeTr and MI MahoSe e' AZ NJ
spoke IN contemptuous terms of Riddleberger
as the "huckleberry from some place, and the
turkey hen from Stony Creek" Malone, he said
had ditched his road. Fowler retorted that
Mahone's road was dltched by the panic of 1873
but that Mahone's chief reputation as a Citcher
had been won by his having ditched Barton and
his funder party. This brought down the house,
and it was followed by the assertion that Boss
year of splendid financial prosperity.
Barton's allegation that Railroads could now
fearfully turned upon him. for this inequality
had been for fifteen years defended and fought
for by the whole funder party. His wings were
before he reached those humbugs and it was
shown that the Henkle bill was a tub thrown
to the whale while the Funders were so closely
run by the Readjusters that they merely aimed
at it toget away with their McCulloch boat.
Mr. Conrad's motion to reduce taxation to 40
cents, after he had voted against and opposed
he and all the other funders-every measure
which made reduced taxation possible. was
shown to be legislative impertinence which
the Readjusters rebuked, and particular
ly as to have passed it would have reduced the
free school fund 20 per cent. In good time, the
Reimbursement their own motion, reduced taxa
ton TO 40 CENTS but did it so that the school fund
lost nothing by it. Mr.. Conrad had the distinc-
ton, in this, OF blazing the way for the Lynch
burg funder convention to adopt Read5us tnent
after lighting it to the death, and to endorse it
after denoqnoing 1t as highway robbery.
The people OF Madison understand the ruse,
and that they win sit down ON it, don't you for
one moment doubt. q
Fowler's gallant rebuke of Barton's attack on
the sons and daughters of Madison, will make a
hundred votes for us, at least
In response to invitations of citizens of Greene
who were present, Mr.. Fowler has consented to
make two speeches, instead of one, in Greene
e5ounty,-to wit on the 10th and 18th of Octo-
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