Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-01-06
THE STATE REPUBLICAN.

The State Republican, at Harri-
sOnburg, some timo in November,
published an edit rial paragraph
containing an inta nous falsehood
personal to II. II. Riddleberger,
which we then so characterized,
aud also Photographed the real
character of the reputed editor and
proprietor of that paper.
The week following our reply
that paper, under the heading
"Riddleberger," came back with a
column, all OF which amounted to
saying you are another, except a
little charge of perjury in a case
pending in this court between Ma.
hone and Riddleberger. We would
not be disposed to answer this with
ink If our interests while the case is
still pending would permit it
There is no other way to answer it
except with a cowhide or to slit the
lying, cOwardly scoundrers ears
He testified his cowardlce anew by
Withholding his exchanges here,
and at EdinbuTg, where he had
six subscribers, where Riddleber-
ger was born aud raised, where peo-
pie knew how base bis lies were, he
did not send a paper, so that his
string of lies was in circulation for
nearly a month before we heard Of
it. One great American self-pa-
roller at that place got copy and
exhibited it to p small circle OF his
dark lantern Democratic associates
in dirty allies, where he and they
most do cOngregate, and 1t was
from this that we finally heard OF
the paper through some decent
Democrats, and by writing to the
Spirit office in Harrisonburg we
procured one, and had the pleas
ure OF reading it in holiday week.
AS a liar, he first appeared, SO
far as our knowledge of him goes,
when he was nominated for super
lntendent of schools for Rocking
ham, aad when his name was be-
fore the Senate for confirmation
He was then objected to on the
ground that he favored social
equality of the races, and a specifi-
cation was that he entertained a
named cOlOred man at his family
table during a certain meeting in
Bridgewater, or near there. This
he lied out of so plausibly, betray-
ed his convictions so INSCRIPTIONS
", that he was confirmed without
further opposition than that made
in all other cases. Subsequently it
was positively proved that this
specification was true, and then he
lied again by going into explana-
tions. BY such conduct he forfeit
ed the esteem of legislators of all
colors, but too late to reject him for
lying. Put these to what we said
of him IN reply to his first unprO-
voked attack, aud the reader will
see with what a dirty dog 1--WE beg
pardon of all the Dogs we should
have to deal we're we to notice him
hereafter.
His allegation about campaign
funds is also a gratuitous lie. Rid
dleberger has not received a dollar
of campaign funds from Genl. Ma
hone since the election of 1881, and
developments in regard to this will
be made at the proper time and in
the proper place. Some personal
friends sent some funds to Riddle
berger for his personal use in 1854,
which he can prove, and he did not
receive a cent of it. The last Rid
dleberger heard of campaign funds
was a letter requesting him to con-
tribute a months salary to such
fund, which he did not do.
This is all we intend to say in
our newspaper in answer to any
thing emanating from this misera-
BILE caricature of the pulpiteer and
the editor, in neither of which pro-
fessions is he recognized or re-
spected.