Blue-grass blade., 1890-09-20

shafts.
But streams do not rise higher
than their source. Judge Multi
gan owes his promotion to for.
tune attained by inheritance from
a liquor traffic on Vine Strect-a
street so disrcputable that his
brother Catholic Irishman, Capt.
Barney Treacy, is nobly cooper
ating with his fellow. Council
man, Simrall, the scion of "blue.
stocking" Presbyterianism, to
call halt on the cnormities there,
that walk abroad at MONDAY and
waste at night the once fair fame
of this city. Men praise the
bridge that carries them over,
and any dissertation upon the
evils of the whisky traffic in this
city would roll off him as incffec-
tually as water from q ducks
back.
But can it be possible that such
high-toned Democrats as have
given their money to support this
paper, have in memory run over
the record of Commonwealth s
Attorney Bronston, when they
have selected him lately to repre-
sent us in the present Constitu-
tional Convention of this State :?
/ do not believe it. If anything
makes q Democrat it is to have
fought for Dixie; and none of
the men now most prominent as
the leaders of the Democratic
party in this city, which gives
color to the Democratic party of
the whole State, with one excep-
tion perhaps, ever fired gun for
the "Lost Cause"
The cohorts that rise as solid
as the phalanxes of the first Ma
poleon,-the "Mulligan Guard
of our bright State Senator,-be-
long to that list of patriots who,
as political exiles from their own
country, came here and, for the
noble incentive of thirteen dol
lars month, shot against the
high-tOned Democrats of this
city, and the first are now, par
excellence, the Democratic party
of this city.
And yet these alien born citi-
zens would have us involve this
country in foreign complication
by trying to secure "home rule
for Ireland, and | have been one
of the many who have felt and
expressed sympathy for them.
l do not believe that these of
ticers hold their eminent posi-
tions in the Democratic party,
because such men as Judge Hunt,
James M. Graves, Captain Mich
olas, Robert Thornton, A. B.
Chinn, l.. G. Price, j. b. Simrall,
A. S. Winston and others who
fought under the Bonnie Blue
Flag" want them there any more
than | do.
They have heard me, in the
most unqualified terms, express
my infinite disgust at the idea,
and then have furnished the "sin-
ews OF war" because they believ-
ed / would honestly and earnest
ly inaugurate a crusade against
it.
If MIR. Bronston' record were
q thing known only to street talk,
this community might be par
doned for the sanction of his
course that they have expressed
by the honors repeatedly heaped
upon him, But they have been
published in the Democratic
newspapers of this city, and The
Blade, in it's whilOm career here,
has told of others in no uncertain
terms.
1t is thoroughly distasteful to
me to revive and revamp these
things; but as a citizen of this
Commonwealth / feel humiliated
and disgraced, and that this man
has his foot upon my neck, ard |
propose to use every just and
honorable means, not only to re-
lease myself from the ignomini-
GUS thraldom, but SO to set him
in the right light before this peo-
pie, that so far from being sent
to represent us in Washington, as
has heen proposed, against the
immaculate Sweet William of the
" "silver tongue" Mr.. Bronston
aforesaid shall not be able to get |
the position of official dog-pelter
in the city Of Lexington.
Men will often talk when they
will not back their sentiments
with their money, but if the men
who are backing THE Btode will
use their tongues with half the
earnestness and liberality that
they have their money, the day
will be when even such poor,
wretches as Will llib-
ler and w. ID. Bryant, and Rev.
erends Felix and Mathews, and
Beatty and Balm, and l-men
whose chief sin has been that
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