Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1890-11-22
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ton OF it, new-fangl-d Bill of Rights,
not only attempts legislation, but array $
against its work the stock raising inter
csts OF Kentucky. The section reads:
Lotteries and gift enterprises are for.
hidden, and no privileges shall be grant
ed for such purposes, and none shall BE-
exercised, and no schemes for simia,
purposes shall be allowed. nor any othe,
species of gaming The General Assem-
bly, shall enforce this section Ivy proper
penalties. All lottery privileges hereto
fore granted are revoked
There is such a thing as virtue run
mad.-Coringion Commonwealth.
The above from the CofingtN,
Commonwealth is quoted in the
Lexington Transcript.
The COMMUNICABLE complains
that there is danger that the CON-
Con will damage the great horse
interest of this State by making
laws against gambling.
The Transcript publishes this
extract without note or comment,
like Baxter bibles.
In journalism, this tactics of the
Transcript is known as the "two
horse act, in allusion to the facil-
ity with which the performer in
the saw dust arena steps from one
horse to the other as occasion
serves.
The Transcript sings bass in the
choir of the Presbyterian Church.
If a Presbyterian preacher walks
into the sanctum of the Transcript
it can show this extract from the
Cotington Commonwealth and NOR
alize upon the religious degcncm
cy of the day. If gambler
comes in, the Transcript can, with
smile of approval, show how it
is helping the Commonwealth to
get it in for the COn.-Con.
OF all the papers in the State of
Kentucky outside of the city OF
Lexington, this Coringion Com
monceaM is the only one that has
tried to blast the efforts of the
BLADE against the liquor iniquity.
1t joined with the Transcript in
its effort to cruelty Prohibition,
and ever since then there has en-
listed between these two sheets a
Herod and Plate congruviality.
There is in this city what they
call a pool room, of which mum .
Der Of good citizens said to me
that it did more harm than any
saloon in the city, and have been
especially asked to call the atten-
ton of the proper officers to it.
1t seems like an absurdity to do
50 as the establishment is as well
known as almost any business
house in the city; the Mayor,
Chief of Police, Commonwealth
Attorney and Grand Jury foremcn
all knowing that it is in regular
and daily business operation.
! have been told by a gentleman
in a clothing house in this city,
that that pool room takes so much
money from the young men of thi.
city, that it seriously affects the
clothing business.
Not only has no newspaper in
this city, SO far as know, failed
to make an insinuation against the
propriety of this establishment, but
the Transcript goes just as far as il
will dare 60, in furnishing aid and
comfort to this establishment, by
publishing what the Commonwealth
says against the Con- Cons propo-
sition to suppress gambling.
The biggest stockholders in the
Bluegrass Blade are race horse
men, and there is not one of them
that does not respect my denOun-
cling the pool-room, and feel a
contempt for the transcripts un-
demanded way of encouraging it..
If l am not telling the truth let
the Transcript get the statement,
of any or all of the following gem
tlemcn that / am disappearing
them.
These gentlemen have all paid
their stock in the kindest and most
yentlemanlv manner, They are
Major b. G. Thomas, Milton
Young, Louis and Gus Straus, w,
c. France and W. L. Withers.
Messrs. France and Withcrs are
trotting horse men, and Mr.France
is a Prohibitionist. One other
horseman not so prominent as these
has paid his stock, and two Others
have not as yet done SO, but ] am
not at all uneasy about their sub
scriptions.
This Lexington pool-room is Just
the kind of a place the Covington
Comm, onueahh wants to foster,
and concerning which the Trans
cript is playing the non-committal.
Their argument for the support of
an institution of this kind is that
its destruction by the Vaccinations
of the Con-Con, would ruin the
horse interest of the State.
The Bluegrass region is the
yre,,test horse region of the world,