Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1890-11-01
The August Election iu Dog
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precinct. From the upper win
dow of my house ! can see the
scenes of more romance. tragedy. |
folklore and prehistoric wonder.
than can he found in any country !
view of equal area in the United
States.
You don't believe it? Well |
wait until ] get through. | !
wrote a piece in the old BLADE |
once about the effects of whisky /
that could he seen from my win
dow. This is no kin to that.
DETERRENT subject. Some things
that will he in this | have written
in some newspapers before.
My newspaper is a homely pa.
per. and as | expect to run it I'M
ill | die. or until Prohibition is
in an amendment to the Consti-
tuition of the United States. SO
that the Occupation" Of the Pro-
hibition editor, ike that of Col
onel "Othello." will he "gone
with q goneness that is irrcvo-
cable, | want to tell you all
about Dog Fennel in one dose. as
a means of expeditIng and tacili-
tating future reference.
Don't make any difference if it
takes a whole newspaper, it will
economize time in the long run.
We had al election at the Dog
Fennel voting place in August
that broke the record. although
we are used to pretty sensational
things out here. A whole lot of
the finest, big rich Democratic
farmers who were awiully
wrought up about the way their
party had managed things out
here, asked me to write it up for
the papers. | did write it up,
but it never went into type. If it
had, judging from the way the
first issue of the BLADE stirred
things by some little jokes | got
off on the boys, there would since
then have been some fresh dirt
dug up in my lot in the cemetery.
1t was the recollection of that Au-
gust election that made the first
issue Of the BLADE stir the whole
State of Kentucky, and some lit
tie on the margin of the regions
round about.
The local excitement out here
was intense: has not cooled of
yet, and nothing short of hard
winter will cool it off. | did not
publish it. because the mosrintel-
ligent man in Fayette county. a
Republican, came to me and ask
ed me not to do it: and a most
prominent democrat represent
ing the other side in politics, also
asked me not to do it. | am glad
/ didn't do it, because | am glad
! am alive, and Prohibition can
not afford to lose a Single voter.
The regular nominees OF the
Democratic party on that occa-
sion are the.best kind of citizens,
fine farmers and my neighbors.
They simply made on that oc-
casion what the trotting horse
slang calls a" bad break" and do
not think they would do it again
for much more than the emolo-
uments and perquisites Of their
offices.
The family of one OF these gen
tlemen sent me once a very ap-
propriate recognition of a jour
nalistic service that had done
them.
| did think | would make an
apology for one Of the Democratic
candidates, by saying that he was
a church deacon and had gotten
in a habit OF handing around
something to drink on Sunday,
and he did not know exactly
where to draw the line on Mon
day, but then | concluded that as
l could not make any apology tor
the other one, it would not be
fair thus TO discriminate between
two OF my equally good and val.
liable neighbors, SO | concluded !
would not say anything about it.
There never has been any
newspaper account Of that elect
ion, and yet its influences will
so ramify from oral report that
it will make Prohibitionists out
of Democrats and Republicans
all over Kentucky, and clean
down to the jumping of place OF
the jackson purchase.
The day is not far distant
when disailected Democrats aud
jolly Prohibitionists will go into
the battle OF ballots with the bat
tie cry, "Remember Dog Fennel."
In the amendment 10 the Con
stitution Of the United States
that will annihilate the whisky
tariff as eiiectually, and almost
AS certainly, as such an amend
ment has annihilated slavery
the memory OF the last August
election in Dog Fennell will be It
"brick in the new structure, a.