Blue-grass blade., 1890-11-01

I'm making the above no,nina
tons for the Prohibition candi
dates for President and Vic
President of the United States
have the following explanation
to make:
When Mr.. Brooks of this city
of the State Executive Commit
tee of Kentucky, and | were re
turning together from Louisville
few days since, where we boil
had gone to meet Hon. Samue
j. Dickie, Chairman of the Ma
tiOnal Executive Committee, Mr.
Brook expressed the regret that
he had not asked MIR. Dickie hi.
opinion as to who would be tn,
next Presidential nominee Of Oul
party.
/ think l had intended to ask
him the same question, but be.
coming like MIR. Brook absorbed
in the matters that Chairman
Dickie co enticingly offered tC
our consideration, l forgot the
question about the Pre- sidency.
Since then have canvassed
the question in my own mind,
and both as an intuition and as
the result of subsequent logical
reflection, am possessed of the
conviction that the names of
Dickie and Brook should, in
1892, represent the Prohibition
ideals for President and Vice
President of the United States
Two points of their fitness is
that one represents the North
and the other the South, and the
one the Federal and the other
the Confederate side in the war,
the first probably having been in
tire Federal army, if he was old
enough, and the latter certainly
having been in the Conf derate
army.
If it could have been possible,
other things being equal, so to
have reversed the case as that the
nomination tor President could
have come from the South and
that for Vice President could
have come from the North, |
would have preferred that, both
because our last Presidential
nominee Fisk, was from the
North, and because l would like
to show to the world that in the
Prohibition party there is NJ ne
cessity for that sycophantic
trucking that the Democratic
party always shows by conceding
as right to the North the nomi-
nee tor President, a Willingness
to take pie when they can't get
pudding, and tacit admission
OF the known dogma of the
Northern Democrat, that it is yet
too soon after the war tor the
Southern Democrat to be trusted
too far.
If Henry Grady, of Georgia,
were living, the fact of his South
ern birth and life might make me
prefer him over Mr.. Dickie as
the Presidential nominee.
As a political party. our prin-
ciples demand that we should re-
verse what is known among the
Democrats as the "dark horse
policy.
We do not want a man run
into the Presidency because he
is SO little known that nobody
con say anything against him,
but we want a man who is thor
oughly and iavorably known.
Mr.. Dickie's extreme activity |
in the Prohibition cause has in
troduced him to almost every
PrOhibitionist in the United
States; his eminent success in the |
management Of the aatfirs of the
party has gained their unquali-
fled appreciation, and his name
is known almost as "a loved mem
Der of the family, in thousands
and thousands of the households
of the most moral and intelligent |
people of the United States.
TO my admiration of him as |
knew HIM only through the pub
lie prints, my late personal ac-
qualntance has added an enthu.
siasm that hardly knows bou' DIS, |
and believe this will be the SEN
timent OF every Prohibitionist !
that met him at the late meeting
ut Louisville.
lie is personally, exceedingly !
ha dsOme, with the most engag-
ing manner that has nothing in
it that smarks of the obsequious-
ness of the professional politician,
as we see him in Kentucky.
With the most beautiful Dig
nifty he blends easiness of APP
proach that is perfectly charm
ing, and in his personelle he is |
magnetic to degree, that is phe-
nOmenal.
lie is eminently scholarly, and
had been II professor in Il college
in Michigan. probably the mi