Blue-grass blade., 1890-11-01

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that went astray gave the shcl
ard more trouble than the ninct
J and nine that did not.
Now ] am going to talk TO yor
gentlemen straight from tn
shoulder.
The other day ] heard from
MIR. Nathan i. Cochran, int,
whose business | have been pay
ing money ever since ! was o
age, and whose father before hin
was patronizcd by my father be
fore me, that he was afraid t.
pay me the stock that he hac
subscribed to the BLADE les
it might hold him liable for tn,
debts of the BLADE; u chief iea
turc of which ! suppose the ring
Democrats will circulate will be
the thousands of dollars of libc
suits that the BLADE will hav,
annually to pay; though, as the
Frankfort Argus says, "nobody
as yet said that it led
In the first place the articles
of incorporation for the BLADE
were written by perhaps the very
finest lawyer in Lexington, and
he then signed his name as a
stakeholder, to the articles stat
ing that no man was responsible
beyond the amount of his sub
scription.
Common sense ought to dictate
that a lawyer of that kind would
not make a moose to stick his own
neck in. lie paid his stock in
the beginning.
In order to alay the solicitude
of brother Cochran | issued to
all the stockholders real or So
called, a circular explaining that
to avoid amy possible responsible
ity of any stakeholder, even for
the moral tone of the paper. !
would not record the articles of
agreement as was the expressed
desire of the Court House meet
ing of these stockholders
Now receive from Dr.. Ock
ford Ofthis city, one of the stock
holders of the BLADE, who saw
cause to absent himself from that
and who, as Il tutelar
saint and presiding deity Of the
Transcript, may have felt his
corns were trodden upon in the
late unplcasantness between the
TRANSCRIPT and the BLADE,
statement that he declines to pay
his subscription because he will
not pay a taxation without rep
OF course between Brother
Cochran and Brother OcktOrd
there is Il nice little Sylla and
Charibdis scheme to set me
down between two stools without
any money, to the excruciating
delectation of my city rivals in
journalism. But gentlemen |
beg leave to inform you that for
every dollar | lose by you there
are men in this country ready to
pay me two, when | 60 to them
and ask it.
Gentlemen your little scheme
may cause a ripple ofjollity for the
saloons and "ring.' but as a per-
investment it's only
boom and you had better unload
your stock in it.
The BLADE is here to stay. 1t
is easy for me to go back to my
farm, but there are too many
good men and women all over
Kentucky that pray for the sue.
less of this little paper, to have
t knocked out by any scheme of
hat kind.
AS old DR.. Chinn said in that
etter to the Gazette, if, with the
knowledge Of me that this COM
munity has, you have subscribed
stock to the BLUE GRASS BLADE
IN the supposition that was GO
ng to try to work a reform in
he politics of this country by any
Democratic or Republican meth.
DDS, then you have stultitied
yourselves and nobody else.
am crank but | am not IA
DOL, and | am not going to put
the attitud, of one who
lsks the Democratic party to
>nock the un,lerpinning out of
is very foundations by going
against the whisky traffic.
In the kentucky Gazette OF
his city, you have an illustrious
OF Il paper that is re-
orming things ''inside the Dem
,cratic party Why would any.
,ody want il reinforcement IN II
ield 70 ably occupied! Don't |
'ou hear the fulminationS OF the |
against corruption; amt |
he whisky men trembling IN
heir boots in dread OF every new /
ssue Of it, and amt the sober, in
iustrious workmen and farmers
uSt clamorlng for it, and running T.
'ver the newsboys to get it every
Inc an ISSUE comes out!
Aud why should the best Re-
,ublicans in LeNinton have sub
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