Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1890-11-15

II
This plan for protecting Prohib
editors contemplatcs the putting
them in lunatic asylums, or in the
pcuitcutiary: the fact of editing
/, + ouID paper to be prima .tacic
evidence of insanity, or of libel,
rs Eay be preferred by the parties
to the "friendly suit"
The scheme strikes me most
fnvorably, and, especially if the
Blade blooms out into a daily SO
nat | can't go to the country
Friday and LET things cool OIL
some Ivy Monday before ] come
back. | hope stockholders in
the Blade will do anything they
honestly can to help the Con-
Con. to materialze the arrange
ment.
You see if they would put me
in the Lunatic Asylum here,
Superintendent Clark and / are
solid, and he would give me one
of the best rooms in the establish
ment, and / would get board and
lodging for nothing, and run the
Blade by telephone, and | would
not be afraid of these blasted fcl-
lows that are "coming around
with a shot gun
Or if it appeared that / would
not be safe in the Asylum ] could
get transferred to the peniten.
tiary for libel, and | could mighty
soon show the warden that he
could make more money out OF
me by buying up a controlling in
+ tcrcst of the stock of THE BLADE
and letting me run it, than he could
make by putting me to bottoming
chairs. could get to be a "trusty'
easy enough, but if | were fixed
there as | would like to be, ! am
satisfied that the things that
would tell from my personal expo
ricnce with Kentucky Democrats,
gained when l was a reporter on a
Democratic paper, would make il
healthier for me to stay pretty close
inside.
The public has made great
mistake in surprising that in that
first issue of The BLADE, that
stirred things so, l got all the
worst things | could find against
these fellows.
One of my stockholders, Will
hanson, the lumberman, gave me
fits about that first paper.
He came to me and said: " You
have made one of the biggest mis-
takes Of your life in firing all that
off in the first issue. If you had
taken three months to get up to
what you said, By degrees, there
would not have been a man in the
town that would have kicked, and
you would have said everything
that you have said"
But, bless your sweet life, that s
just what l thought l was doing.
| thought / was starting at the bot
tom and going up "by degrees !"
most beautifully. The things that
| mentioned l regarded as mere
peccadillocs compared with the
other things that l knew, that l
was going to tell about Lexington
politicians.
l was cutting burs at the time
| concluded to start the THE
BLADE again, and sat down on
Saturday, Sunday and part Of
Monday and | wrote enough to
fill THE BLADE chuck full for a
month, 80 that l would not have
to stop my urjob. | had these
articles divided off for the differ
ent weeks so as | would have Just
to send them to the printers.
All of these weeks allowances
had my nominations on Lexing-
ton politics; my natural genius
for expressing my views in Eng
lish being greatly stimulated by
my fresh recollections of the
August election in Dog Fennel.
These reflections commenced
very moderate, as it seemed to
me, compared width how every
body out there was talking about
Lexington politicians.
My idea was to let these articles
rise in sort of literary geomet-
rical progression, until at the end
of a month or two l could safely
begin to tell what l knew and
what | thought about it, rs Will
hanson suggested
But, Jerusalem. If these lit.
tie Sunday School facts that /
printed in the first issue had any
in them, some of those
that | had written for the end of
the first month would have laid it
over anything that Charley StolPs
factory, out North
Broadway, can do.
But, when | saw how the little
things | said in the first issue had
taken, you better bet / burned up
The balance of the months
supply.
want tO he WillinU m 1;o