Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-10-09
Judge Lybr00k on Malone.

Judge A. NJ. Lybreol<, who has been ap-
pointed a Democratic canvasser for his
Senatorial District, has issued an address to
the people of Patrick county, in which he
handles Mahoneism in the following vigor.
GUS manner:
While, as your representative in Rich
mond, l saw what I never believed could
ever be in free country saw men who
had been elected and trusted by the people
to protect their interests deliberately make
deeds under seal of their manhood and their
right to act for you, to Malone !; l saw them
again in caucus pledge themselves to obey
and do everything he and his machine eau
Gus ordered them to do. l saw them bow
down and wear a collar that should degrade
a respectable dog. | saw this man and his
tools deliberately and openly attempt to
brand an honorable gentleman, Mr.. Mas
sey, with penitentiary crime because he
refused to wear the collar, when they knew
the charge was false as it was infamous a
committee who investigated the charge, a
majority of Uhich avere Malone men, so de-
clared it. l saw them unseat Judges in
violation of law and the constitution, to
make places for greedy Mahoneites. l saw
them turn out old and faithful officers at the
capitol and put in men totally incompetent
one of whom, the new auditor, was charg-
ed by an honorable man with offering to
sell to him his vote for $1,000, in connec-
ton with the contract to print the state
bonds, and this man is now stumping it
over the State making Malone speeches, or
rather dealing in common blackguardism
l saw them eject presidents, professors,
teachers, and boards of visitors of the pub
lie colleges to make places for political
henchmen, that our children might be
taught the Malone catechism. saw them
attempt to rob the State Of from $500. 900
to $500. 900 in a transaction with the Dan
vile Railroad and did succeed in part-as
this road boasts that it made by the trans
action $250,000. They did these things,
and many, many more before we stopped
them. These things done, they went to work
to change the congressional districts into
such forms as to secure the election Of eight
Republicans or Mahoneites out of the ten
we are entitled to. This was to be done by
adding negro counties to the white, so as
to give them the balance of power
They next attempted to change the old
judicial circuits, and throw out all of our
circuit judges and put in incompetent Ma
hone judges in their places. They next at
tempted to take charge of the Railroads OF
the State, by passing a law putting them
under the unlimited control of four men,
who were to be appointed by the Governor.
1t is estimated that these roads have 20, 900
men-voters-i their employment. This
bill was to collar these voters. Had it be-
come a law not man of them, from presi-
dent down to the keeper of water-tank
could have held his place twenty-four hours
if he refused to put on the collar and follow
Malone. You see that this law alone would
have handed the whole State over to the
negro-republican-M Malone party. The next
thing, and the most infamous of all, was to
give the Governor, or speaking more truth
fully, Malone, the power to appoint COM
missioner in each county to sell all the lands
to be sold by order of court and to take
charge of every mans affairs ifin litigation
he was to be the executor of every man s
estate if he got into court and the guardian
OF his children You and your neighbor
were forbidden to settle your own affairs, if
once i'll court, privately, without this Ma
honeite commissioners coneent. A Ma
honeite newspaper was to be set up in each
county to be run by this man and the peo-
Pile forced to support it, because no notice
or order of court would be valid unless pub
lished in this paper. This mans power in
the county would have been simply ab-
solute. 1t would have been worth from
So. 900 to S25 900 a year. 1t was estimated
to be worth the latter sum in Richmond, and
the fellow Wise, who ran against Massey,
was, heard, to have it in Richmond.
These measures, terrible and frightful as
they are, would have become laws had not
four Readjuster Senators, myself in the
number, rebelled and put stop to them.
But we have only stopped them. AS sure as
we are living men, if you allow them to
carry the State this fall, these measures
will become laws and be executed with all
the malignant power of q devil, and we will
be free men no longer. New, then, let us
be up and at them. Let our war cry be
''down with Malone, and his abject, office
seeking followers down with the Internal
Revenue gang, who are parading the State
in the interest of their master, and arrest
ing people and Furnishing them for what was
once legal business; down with every man
or party who favors turning the old State
over to Mahone-the negroes-Arthur, and
to Stalwart Republicanism." The debt
question is dead, and now there can be but
two parties-the Democratic and the Re
publican. You must be one or the other.
Malone has declared himself the follower
VI dIbHuT. ~ Ctil Ills party dIy OGu6r
name, is to deceive and defraud. His pur-
pose is to deceive and cheat. He expects
to unite the weakest and worst element of
the white race with the 128,000 negro vo-
ters and override and crush beneath his
foot all the intelligence. manhood and pro-
perty of the State. If he succeeds this fall,
we will have lost our only and last chance
from political and social ruin. Fellow-citi-
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believe, nay, I know I am telling the SIM
pie, naked truth. 1 beg of you'll plead
with you-l conjure you by all that is dear
to you, to heed this feeble warning. Look
around you; select your mani warn you
to make no blunder in this-and go to work,
every one of you, from now to the election,
and send him with me to help me to save
the State from the control of the most dan
gerous party, the most desperate, danger
GUS and reckless political demagogues that
ever cursed community.