Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-10-25

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cold air from the music stand On the green
were S. S. Turner of Warren county, Elk
Senator H. H. Riddleberger, and MI. Foste
of Indiana. Mr.. Turner's speech was al
admirable one, and if it contained nothing
new, it was because in this campaign tn
ground has been gone over SO often thai
nothing new can be said. But his pfesenta
ton of the case was striking and effective
and won good deal of praise.
SENATOR RIDDLEBERGER.
Senator Riddlebergcr who had arrived
from Woodstock about 10 o'clock, was il
excellent trim for speaking, but under thu
circumstances might well have asked to bt
excused from the task. On arriving il
Harrisonburg this morning, he found very
near relative dead, of whose illness he and
his family had heard nothing. He sac
rifced his feelings, however, and having
been announced to speak made the promise
good though he considerably shortened his
remarks. He earnestly impressed on the
old Readjusters the Importance of defeating
Gen. Malone, who was now for unsettling
the debt settlement, while at that moment
advocating his claims in the court house
was an orator (Col. Lamb) who had, him.
self, been offered place on the State ticket
but had declined on the ground that he had
acted as counsel for the British bondhOlders.
1t was the more important to the tax payers
of Virginia that friend Of the Riddleberger
settlement of the debt should be elected now
because the q. s. Supreme Court is now
about to pass for the third time on the leg
islation involved in this bill, having already
pronounced the bill itself constitutional. 1t
was easy to hound man over the State as
he, the speaker had been, with the cry of
''traitor to the party" but the man who
says as Gen. Malone does, that the debt
settlement ought to be unsettled, is the real
traitor, for all his prominence was given
him by the old Readjusters who had accep-
ted the Riddleberger bill as final settle
ment. 1t was idle to tell the tax payers of
Virginia that new settlement can be made
satisfactory to the creditors, without rails
ing the taxes. You cannot raise the 1857 J
600 more of interest demanded by the bond
holders without increasing the tax on land
from 40 cents where it now is, to so cents. l
have two obligations to perform-the first
to the old Readjusters Of Virginia, and the
second to the Republican party. [ shall
discharge both by working with the Demo-
Gratis to keep off this threatened increased
taxation. Senator Riddleberger here COM
mented on the absurdity of the ''School and
Tariff Advocate" (Gen. Mahone's organ)
keeping standing in its columns a list of
the amounts Virginia counties would have
gotten under the Blair bill, when Gen. Ma
bill, notwithstanding he, the speaker, went
to the cloak room of the Senate and urged
him to do it. Nh. r. then examined the
school statistics in the journal referred to,
which claimed that to Malone was due the
improvement in the schools, when as mat
ter of fact all this was done under and by the
old Readiuster party of Virginia. The bill
to establish the Petersburg Normal Insti-
tute for colored teachers, on which Malone
lays so much stress with the colored voters
was drawn by himself, (Riddleberger,) and
Malone neither knew OF the bill nor saw it
till it was introduced in the legislature
MI. Riddleberger's speech received much
applause, and it may be remarked that
when Judge John I. Harris at the begin
ming of the meeting announced the pro-
gramme and came. to Riddleberger's name,
it was received with great cheering. And
just here [ may mention point that Judge
Harris in his Introductory remarks made
which should not be overlooked. He said
that if Malone should carry this legisla-
ture, and in the providence of God death
should carry off either of the two Virginia
Senators, Malone would certainly have him
self elected to the Senate.
The Democratic meeting was closed with
a brief speech by MI. Frank P. Foster a
member of the Indiana legislature
THE MALONE MEETING.
The Malone meeting in the courthouse
was large one. 1t was first addressed by
the brass band which had been secured by
the Malone men, so [ am told, as long as
six weeks ago. Then followed Col. Lamb
of Norfolk, who made the same speech that
he made in Staunton and Woodstock The
amusing feature Of the meeting was MI.
Barbriere of Pennsylvania, who, believe,
has spoken in Staunton. When I went
into the meeting the last time, for [ made
frequent visits to it, Col Lamb had finished
his speech and gone, and there were % per-
| 10 ~, II
whom 9 were colored and were small
boys. 1t was quite pathetic to hear The
speaker say to this gathering, Gas, since
General Lamb closed his speech, l see a
will he brief" What 1 heard of his speech
was very amusing. 1t carried the idea that
in Pennsylvania there were banks upon
banks with millions of dollars in their
vaults that they didn't know what to do
with, just waiting for Mahone's election.
to tumble it all down into Virginia-his
own village having several barrels of it in
that condition. His modest estimate was
that if Malone carried Virginia one thou
sand million dollars would be semitic the
Southern States! He said, and kept on saying
II love Malone. He is one of the grandest
men in the country" He prophesied thai
he would be elected by eight thousand o.
eight hundred thousand, or something Xix,
that-for it all amounted to the sam,
thing, coming from a Pennsylvania MAJ
who knows as much about an election re
suit in Virginia as he does of one in New
Zealand.
THE OUTLOOK.