Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1890-11-15
I Want Ia Get In "a Iuuattt
Asylum. Or u I'cnitcu,tary.
Or Something.

lism far enough to DO its own
thinking, instead of letting some.
body else think for it.
1t says what it thinks, and
thinks what it plcases. And
when it comes to reli giou. Great
Caesar . and Holy Moses.
II they would get few copies
OF that paper scattered around
among the pious brethcrn of this
city, would look so sanctiiicd
in comparison with that fellow
and his sheet, that they would
want to make a Sunday Sehoo
Superintendent OF me right away
You may know he is bad medi.
cine when / had to call a halt on
him about that piece he wrote
against letting the preachers be
legislators. You rccollcct, two
or three issues ago.
l play the same racket with
Pilcher-l am afraid to call him
"Brother," in print-that these
Lexington editors do when they
sympathized with the bereaved
family whose son they have got
into an inebriate asylum, or a
lunatic asylum. or the peniten-
tiary, or his grave, or in hell-it
there is any such place-and
privately pat the saloon keeper
on the back, and iell him to do it
again, that it's a good joke ETC.,
etc, and makes papers sell.
| write old Pitcher private let
tiers and tell him to do it again /:
but you better bet your bottom
sinner that l am not going to
back him in my newspaper.
No, / am not quite solid enough
with the preaching brethren for
that racket yet. l may get them
educated mp to it yet.
It's a little noticeable that, be-
ing a Democrat, these sanity
Lexington editors don't call a
halt on Pitchers theological
views.
l dare him to turn Prohibi-
ZIONIST, and talk that kind of
preaching. He gives me lots of
taffy in his paper--by the col
umn at time-poetry and prose,
and of course my vanity would
make me want to print it; !
give you a little sample else
where. Tut who in The thunder
can do any good with blasted
old weekly paper? Raise me
$4,000 aud I will clean the state
of Democracy in two years. !
am a farmer, and the Farmers
Alliance and / are as thick as
any other thieves, and ! can work
a combine between them and
Prohibition that will knock the
in two years. They
will be double team. working
with Prohibish in the
lead, and Ilibler would give
thousand dollars if he hadn't a
flew the track and gone back to
the Democrats and the Deml-
Johns.
Old Brother Goddard writes
that he is afraid l soaked it to
Hibler rather rough; but | have
not heard of a Lexington Pro-
nibitionist that has shed a tear
over it, and some of the rascals !
like the dickens. | feel
sorry tor Hibler, now that ! have
gone and done it. He's between
hawk and buzzard. Judge Null
Iigan would not touch him poll
tically with a ten foot pole, and
the BLADE is going to see that he
don't get back among the Pro-
hibs: and if he wants to join
he will have to go in
the Shakers, or the Republicans,
or the Mormons, or some of those
outside institutions.
No, Brother Goddard, bless your
sweet life; you are one of these
beautiful characters that "believeth
all things, hopeth all Things, en-
lureth all things" and old 'rolstor
and | have a model born oyer
yonder in Syria, a couple of thou
,and years or so ago, that we going
o try to work up to, and get
where you are to.
III bet buttermilk that if dog
we're to bite you, you would
'ather give him Il bone to gnaw on
o keep him from doing it again,
han to kick him.
Hibler would look mighty nice /
o man who was looking ut him
rom Harrodsburg to Lexington;
,ut he's one of these eases where
distance lend. enchantmcnt to the
'iew." The further of YOU gel
i'm the better he looks.
Think if he were on the other
ide of the ocean, and had no
hancc to get back but to swim
cross on rail, ] would like him
DO.
| think the sentiment among
he Prohibs here is that got
way with Hibler just in time TO