Blue-grass blade., 1890-09-20

, Rationalists, men and women
and some of whose politics or re
ligion / as yet know nothing
also race-horsc men, and also tn
only man connected with any sa
loon in Lexington who has th'
entrce to good society, with The
proprietor of the biggest anc
finest distillery in the Bluegrass
region, 30 far as know, all came
to me and proposed to help me
with their money, and every one
of them, except one, to whom
have not applied because / did
not think it was right to take 9
distiller's money and use it as O
stick to break his own head, has
put up his money, like a little
man, as he said he would, when
l went to them to get the stock
for the Company which now
backs The Blade.
The newspaper fraternity, like
everybody else, are liars when it
is to their interest to lie; so that
| will give samples of all of these,
who are easily accessible and may
be consulted by those who want
to see if there is any stufiing in
my statement.
Among clergymen there are
Rcverends McGarvy and Math-
ews, the first presiding as Chair
man of the Council that fired me
out of the church as a hereto.
Since then other ministers have
given me their money, the only
one who declined to do it on my
application to him, being the
Reverend Lloyd of Georgetown,
who is fire-eating Prohibition
ist and who complimented me in
a sermon, not long ago, at
Georgetown.
lie blushingly apologised for
not wanting to support The
Blade, by stating that his wife
and all the children and himself
would read it in spite of him,
and he thought he noticed in the
whole 1amily q disposition to
turn heathen, that might ulti-
mately result in their all joining
the Chinese. l think the gentle
man was consistent, and l like
his candor. When a man feels
like his faith is pretty shaky at
best, he can not be too careful.
A man that thinks he is living in
a rickety house, don't want to be
fooling with a cyclone.
AS samples of College Presi-
dents, there was President j. r..
Patterson, and since then Charles
Louis Loos, with III. B. McClel-
Ian as an incorporation.
Among the race-horse men are
Major b. G.. Thomas, the great
apostle of the turf in Kentucky,
and Milton Young, and the
Strauses, and w. G. France
The gentleman who, as prOprie-
tor of the Phoenix Hotel, is in
terested in its soloon, the largest
and finest one in the city, is j.
Hull Davidson, and the owner
of the distillery is the Honorable
Richard Stoll.
AS sample of a man, of whose
religion and politics | do not to
this day know anything, is II. b.
Metcalf, then the owner of the
street railroads here, of whom l
only knew in that connection
and rs a subscriber to The Blade,
and who volunteered to tell me he
would give me fifty dollars to
start it again, and as he has since
done. lie simply said to me, 81
like your politics and your re-
ligion."
AS to those outside of the pale
of orthodoxy, of course am not
going to call any names, but o.
woman who has done more for
Prohibition and her sex than
any woman in the State,
sends me her money for her
stock in The Blade, before l
asked for it, in a letter which
has a text from the New Testa-
ment printed ut the top of it, and
in which she says that "The Ra-
tional View" lies on her table as
II handbook.
It's a funny old world fur n
fac.
| think The Blade now may be
regarded AS having come to stay,
unless Some of these whisky