The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1877-08-03


cholera is to . poultry yard, what .
boil il on the end Of ones nose, what
the summer complaint IL TO children,
that is Mr.. F. F. Bobbitt to our coun-
ty politician annually recurring
source Of petty irritation, annoyance
and worry. Let us be thankful
therefore, that on next Monday the
great Reformer will once more be dis.
posed of for this year. Not longer,
however. About the time the next
crop of catterpillap begin to drop
from the trees down our necks, We
may look for Mr.. Bobbitt again, for
by that time It will have again become
the patriots duty to do battle for the
sacred rights Of the poor man. and to
strike with the lightning Of righteous
indignation the man who wears clean
shirt. Let US not, however, be weak
enough to complain. The finger of
Providence Is somewhere in these
things. For some Christening. though
inscrutable purpose, God permits, il
he does not will them.
Last Wednesday night at the Court
House We had our first convenient OPP
portunity to hear the poor mans can.
didate define himself fully. We and
six gentlemen from Africa had il all
to ourselves. The orator did his work
conscientiously. He spoke his piece
clear through, pretty much % he learn
ed it twelve years ago from his scrap.
book, and didn't spare us . single nd.
jective. His position is quite simple,
although he Celebrates it at great
length. 1t is striking, original, inge-
NOUS and Bobbitonian. He is an ar.
dent Democrat with . tender yearning
as it were, for Republicans. He is a
proud and jealous Caucasian" but
smitten with . noble and touching af
lection for his colored fellow-citizen.
He is a poor man by choice, who
darkly suspects all men that live in
houses with ellis to them" and who
loves his brother poor man with q
love which passeth that of women.
As to the unsettled questions Of Fed.
eral and State powers, as to the ad-
justment of the relations between
Capital and Labor, as to the curren-
cy and financial problems which some
people are ill-informed enough as to
regard as of some little moment. Mr..
Bobbitt ignores them a. minor matters.
Perhaps. in the abstraction incident to
great thinkers. he has not even heard
of them. But upon the three great
practical questions which now face the
Kentucky people he certainly speaks
with no uncertain nor ALTERING tone.
Shall the future Legislator Of Ken.
lucky be permitted while at Frankfort
to read his home and metropolitan pa.
per at the expense of the State' Mr..
speaking in the name Of that
freedom for which Koskiusko fell,
says not. If any legislator wants to
know the spirit and the wishes OF his
people, let him find il out as best he
may. Let him evolve it from his in
ner consciousness, but let him not
even in the search for information,
iare to spend the Pour Mans heard
armed dollar.
Shall the Fish Law be repealed
Mr.. Bobbitt says, yes. We do not
want our streams stocked with salmon,
.rout, bass or other game fish. He
vas brought up on suckers and mud
ats, and he had found them an excel.
ent and nutritious brain food. HIS
brain had grown upon that diet. Any
,hange must needs be for the worse.
And besides it costs something to re-
took our riyers-not much il Is true
but still something. 1t Is another
,rsb at that sacred dollar Of the Poor
Han!
Shall the Legislature Of Kentucky
" allowed ever again TO appropriate
'S6 Is annually for ice for the use Of
he House and Senstes To this ques-
ion the indignant statesman respond
d in the negative with such emphasis,
nd such anguish Is 10 really startle
is faithful auditors. That ringing
MOI" fell among them like a thun-
er-clap. and will reverberste for ma
y q day in the ears of those astonish-
darkiss. What did they want with
g, with the blue waters Of the Ken.
lcky River lsving the walls Of the
spitol' What poor man got icss
10y. going further into this matter,
hat necessity was there for supplying
,s Capitol with cloak-room attend.
ut at higher salary than the Poor
Ian can earn in the feldf Why can't ,
10 members take care Of their own
oaks and hatsS Where Is the neces- /
ty for furnishing the two halls with
,ittoonsi Could not the lawmakers ,
Ipectorate from the windows, or in ,
! emergency, into their hstsf II 4,
y Q blow at the institutions of our
thsrs. Il Was foul conspiracy Of