Blue-grass blade., 1890-09-20
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The NOR, D think of that little
incident thct more j am opposed
to this indAcriminate berating
of saloon-k,Npe by temperance
people. Littlc facts of this kind
show that there are some good
men among them.
I don't know what ia the bond
of union between Bro. Jones
and me, but it is a fact that for
years we have always salutcd
each other with a defercntial
bow every time we have met.
Like myself, he is not one of
that style of physical beauty that
Hart would bc likely TO select as
a model for masculine "Tri-
umph of Chastity" but my gal
liant friend, Colonel Bob Thorn
ton, who as much as any other
has contributed to the launching
of this literary craft, speaks kind
ly of Mr.. Jones, and having met
him soon after reading an ac-
, count of tiie episode with my
iend-Kimball, / most cordially
4.sLLSaak khaads'Eith him.
But the browning act in the CO.
reer of Mr.. Bronston, which,
more than any, other, has antago-
nized the scAiiHent of justice in
the minds of 1he people of this
county, is his recent participapcy
in the election that voted q rail-
road tax upon this community.
The cry of Democracy hitherto
has been thatit was necessary to
buy the negro vote in order to
keep the Republicans out of pow
er. Now, however, Mr.. Bron-
ston is generally recognized as
having been the ringleader of
that faction of the Democratic
party which has bought the votes
of negroes and other non-tax-
paying persons, in order to foist
upon the taxpayers of this coun-
ty a tax for the building of a
railroad in which it is generally
understood and undisputed that
Mr.. Bronston and his satellites
are all stockholders.
1t is a tenet of the most COM
petent of Democratic thinkers
that the Fifteenth Amendment,
that gave the suffrage franchise
to the negro, was political
enormity, and it is the consensus
of the competent of almost every
school that the best political
polity would limit, rather than
extend, the suffrage franchise
and yet Mr.. BrOnston, while
claiming to be an exponent OF
Democracy, is not only willing
that the negro should vote, but
he selects the most degraded of
them to do the voting, and
through his emissaries makes
them drunk, so that they will
have even less than their ordin-
airy intelligeay, and then pays
them to vote against the almost
solid protests of the very men
who give tone and dignity to the
Democratic party. If these gen.
tlemen ever again do anything
to promote Mr.. Bronston's polit-
ical success, or connive at it in
others, they are bigger fools
than Thompson's colt, and are
unworthy the heritage of free
men.
The disgracefui details of this
manipulation of the negroes
against the taxpayers of the
county will be reserved for a
chapter in a subsequent issue of
The Blade.
am a railroad man, and am
willing to pay my part of the
tax that may be voted to build
them, when such tax is voted by
those who will have to pay the
tax, but there is no safety for the
business interests of the county
and city, when a ring of this
kind, with one of their number
in the Legislature to put through
any kind of a charter, wishes to
declare a dividend'among them
selves by voting a railroad sub
sidy on the people, or any other
kind of a scheme that they may
devise, and to carry which it is
only necessary for them to roll
a few barrels of whisky from
their private stores or from the
common fund of the party, and
send around their emissaries to
call the negroes from the harvest
fields of us "hayseeds," who now,
at best, und5.the management
of our representatives at Wash
ington, can hardly dole oft all
existence.