Blue-grass blade., 1890-11-15

ucClIne 10 suppUT' your paper u
the manner you Tx
: Very Respee fully Yours,
j. u. IiuST,
Judge Hunt IL The third gentle
man who has ri. '~cd to pay hi
stock subscriptita to the Blue
Grass Blade. ~
The first one banker, Mr.
William Sayrc, declined to- do il or
the ground that'h., had signed hi.
name, and written the iigurc | the
latter under the heading Number
of shares," not rowing what he
was doing.
The second, DR. Ocford declined
to pay because h, said that in my
plan his stocksco id not be repre-
scntcd. 90,
Judge Hunts, he declines to
pay because he .tscs not "considcr
himself in anywa bound"
OF course I would not now have
Judge Hunts money, but must
show why / con der that he has
treated me with great injustice, in
order that those whom it may con-
Germ may under .and the radical
change in my estimate of him.
So far as any personal kindness
to him is concern Il, | shall be as
ready to extend t,at, should an oc-
casion offer, as ] ever have been,
but an indiscri innate exhibition
of regard for those who do right
and for those who do wrong is
neither good morals nor justice to
my friends; whotl I claim IA my
friends because they are just and
generous.
/ do not think that the case of
Judge Hunt is either of these.
He plainly says that the ground
upon which he declines to pay his
subscription to the stock Of the
Blade is that he. disapproves Of
the conduct of the paper.
AS the plainly printed contract
that he signed did not commit the
paper to any Enc of conduct, he
has no ground to claim release
from his obligation to pay hi.
stock subscription because Of any
line of conduct thai the paper may
have adopted.
Common busirS Sss Intelligence
should have ugkested to Judge
Hunt that hes had no right to set
up such aspleh. As DR.. Chinn sug-
gested, IN. bis fe ter to the Gazette,
here were over d hundred gentle
men who represented interests a,
antlpodal As preaching the gospel
and conducting a State univers tv
on the one hand, and running race
horses and selling whisky on the
other.
These gentlemen We're white and
black, were Prohibitloni-ts. Demo
crat, ana Il Rrpubican- They were
most enthusiastic Christians, and
enthusiastic intideIs of different
shades.
Why Judge Hunt nndcr these
circumstances should havr picked
himself out of all these gentlemen
any of whom are. his peers, Is be-
ing pre-eminently the man whose
views OF proprety were to be
consulted in the editing of the
paper, can only be accounted for
on the supposition that he has
made Il mistake, or that he attaches
to himself an Importance entirely
inconsistent with hi, conceded
modesty.
Before the issuance of the first
number of the BLADE, aS Il bust
ness transaction | would not have
discounted Judge Hunts financial
obligation to me at one per cent.
without recourse.
After the issuance of the first
number and the meeting of the
stockholders in the Court House,
Judge Hunts obligation to pay
his stock was, if possible inten-i-
fled by the ratification of that
meeting. The animus of the meet
ing was, that they felt the mora
and business obligation to pay me
as per agreement, but that they hat
Il right to release themselves from
any moral responsibility for the ton,
of the paper. The evident justice
of this position | publicly recog-
nized, and the meeting ended will
that understanding without Il de.
murrer from Judge Hunt.
A number Of the parties present
paid me their subscri ption at tn,
the time, others of those pre-cn
have since paid me, none have de-
clined to pay me, and | believe
all will pay me except judge
Hunt
l do not want to appear rs pos
sibly making an cr pdftc Statement
of this ease, acknowledge my grca
liability to error, and sincerely ak
in justice to Judge llunt, it An,
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