Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1890-11-15

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willipus wallipu~ had run ovcr,was
a sort of n spring board, so to- speak
that he was using for a regular
seven elephant political summer
sault, and that he actually voted
the Democratic ticket last TUESDAY.
but it never leaked out uutil | had
got in my work ON him. and th,
wind was all ont of his sails, the
bladder that he vas saving for
Christina, was prcmaturelybu-tcd,
and the saw dust all Knocked ont
ot his doll baby. before the public,
now for the first time. hears the
announcement that was intended
To shake Prohibition to it, center
In hard earnest | do not want to
do the gentleman IN injustice, but
| can simply say that have been
informed by somebody whose name
] have forgotten, and who will
please tell me again, that one of the
officer, of the late election here
that personally know to I've Il
good man, and Il number of Mr..
/ tliblcr's own church, said that MIR.
II. voted for the Democrats.
OF course, so far as | am per-
sonally concerned, ] ought to feel
sorry, and do feel sorry. for any
man who would get himself in
such fix that he would have to
90 back to the ring Democrats of
1 this town after having been al
lowed to associate with Prohbi-
ZIONIST. But ! think the party can
afford to immediate Hiblcr on the
altar of political sincerity.
Even the little sand.papering
that the BLADE has given Brother
Hiblcr-I am going to call him
Brother now that we have got him
down, one of the "forlorn and ship
wrecked brothers" that Longfellow
talks about say that even this
little Turkish bath and subsequent
scrubbing with new paving brick
that Brother Hiblcr has got, will
make the next Prohib that wants to
go back to the Democrats $50 Slow"
as Colonel Crockett advised, and
go just As easy as he possibly can.
But | have got clear away from
my text.
I started to say that the Mich
olusriNe Democrat has q column or
so complimentary of me to the eff
feet that so humble an individual
as ! am, has engaged the attcntio n
of that conclave of Democratic So
Ions known as the "Con-Con,'
whose deliberations will go echo.
ING down through the corridors of
time in Il kind of historic svmpho-
ny with these of Nice, Laodicca,
Client, Utrecht and Tilsit.
As an advertisement of the
BLADE it gets away with that one
of Brother kaufman, in this pa
per, of the fellow that has bun
die of rye around him.
They say that Proctor Knots
speech about somctling-I forget
what, though | heard some one
mention ii at the timc--that occu-
pied little over two days Of the
"Con-Cou's' deliberations, cost
the State $500; that is a little
over 81, 900 a day.
Surprising this puff or ''local no.
tee that they gave me to have
occupied a day and a half. it would
have cost the State little over
S1,50O.
Now, while as a Taxpayer l
would be inclined to kick against
the appropriation for an individual
benefit, of course ! must gratefully
the advantage done me
us an editor.
But, fellow citizens, ifthcre is any
virtue | claim, it is that | will tel
the truth without stopping to think
what in the thunder comes of it,
and | hereby stake my reputation
for any thing that ! may have OBJ
tanned in that department upon my
sworn statement, on the dictionary,
that neither by offer of money or
promise of political preferment
under the Prohibition administra-
ton Of '92, have | induced these
gentlemen to act in my interest.
1t seems to have been actuated
solely by Il general salubriety, or
a> Jim Mulligan would call it, a
sentiment Of congruviality, that
would naturally be supposed to
exist bctwee 4 that dcllberative
body and M self.
The Nichoiasville Democrat says
the scheme alluded to originated
among Lexington Democratic
politicians. If | understand it
from the Democrats editorial re-
marks and extracts from speeches
that it gives, it is intended to
afford protection to Prohibition
editors against Democratic thugs.
The plan is to afford such Prohi
bition editors protection against
parties who propose to come