Blue-grass blade., 1890-11-15

nN', nut IhpN nave Sllcn Oau mcmO-
rics that il makes them appear to
bad advantage, and people who do
not understand this might suppose
them to be telling that which Is not
true.
They cant rccollcct from one
election to another.
Last summer, a few days after
the August election. was blowing
in the smartwccd-high enough to
hide a ycarling calf when the
most influential Democrat in the
diocese came along and got out of
his buggy to have a good talk,
while ! sat on the pillow beam. We
were all tcarfnlly wrought up over
the way things had been managed
ont there; and the gentleman
seemed to be just as much So as !
was. There had been split in the
Democratic party, and the high
toned ones. who had absorbed lit
tie of the circumambient Prohibit
ton sentiment. had concluded to
run independent candidates of a
moral tone, against the regular old
line nominees that believed i'm the
good old way of rolling out the
whisky when you want to carry an
election.
The gentleman who stopped my
pillow had gotten a considerable in
fusion of Prohibition morals, and
seemed to hate to appear to vote
for a straight ont whisky Demo-
crat.
But this nice man who stopped
me explained to me that owing to
an unfortunate circumstance he had
voted for the whisky man against
the other man. He said he had
gone to the polls early in the morn
ing and had voted before the regu-
lar line Democrats had got to roll
ing out the whisky, and not
knowing that they were going to
do that, he had un Sittingly voted
for men who had brought whisky
and made the negroes drunk, and
he was so mortified that / felt
sorry for him, and assured him
that ! appreciated just how it hap
pened, and told him that under the
it should not lessen
my high appreciation of him.
He then added, with the pecu-
liar slow, delibcrative style that
characterizes his remarks when he
is in great earnest, "Thcre's one
thing | have made up my mind
about, and that is that | am never
going to vote early in the morning
again. am going to wait until
late in the evening and see how
the candidates have been conduct
ing themselves, and then ! am go.
ing to vote
l got to the polls before any
body else, because ] didn't live but
three miles away and / just walked
over while other people were get
ting their horses. The next man
there was the one who as candi-
date in August, had so offended
the sense of propriety of the
party alluded to. The next man
that came was the gentleman who
was not going to vote early any
more.
The first vote cast was by a gen.
tleman who sat in his buggy out
side because he was sick and he
was waited upon first.
The next vote cast was by the
gentleman who told me in August
that he was not going to vote early
any more.
1t was true there was no appear
ance that the contest between the
Democrats and the Prohibitionists
would be close enough to induce
the Democrats to use any whisky.
But the good man voted the same
ticket as the man whose use of
whisky at the August election had
given 50 much Offense to the high
toned Democrats and both of them
voted for Billy Breckenridge, who
mad distinguished himself by his
support of the Original package"
outrage, and against Ford, who
was opposed to whisky.
The phenomenal weakness of the
of Democrats is one of
he strongest features in the party.
This disgust on the part of the
more moral element Of Democracy
against the way elections are man
aged by the rulers in their party,
occurs on an average of once a
year, and the moral element among
them swears off and is never going
to do so any more; but the next
time the election comes off they
march up and vote the same old
way and then make the same old
complaint, and so it goes.
II we could inst get up some
Kind of scheme to educate Dem
,cratic memories, Prohibition
would be all right.
10 the Prohibition Ol Hen.
lucky.
LEXINGTON, KY, Nov. 8, 80. !