Blue-grass blade., 1890-09-20

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by emotion and unthinking par
tisanism. lie addresses himself
most pleasantly and forcibly to the
higher rational and moral quail
ties of men.
lie has never taken any part
in politics except to make some
Prohibition speeches. The dele.
gates who came from the North
ern part of the District where
Mr.. Ford is most intimately
known, in their endorsement of
his nomination speak of him as
a man in whose morals and sound
business and political judgment
the people have such confidence
that they receive with the great
est satisfaction any measure that
he recommends.
The Blade not only gives Mr..
Ford its unqualified endorse
ment, but asks that the people of
this country will do themselves,
Mr.. Ford, and it, the kindness,
not to say justice, to inquire about
Mr.. Ford and see him and hear
him before they next cast their
votes for Congressman. We do
not want you to take any prcju-
diced view of the Democratic
candidate who will oppose him,
but setting down naught in
malice and naught extenuating,'
sum up the record of the Demo-
cratic candidate, all that is known
and all that is suspected, for and
against him; consider the moral
influence he exerts in our society
and the importance of the issues
to which he is welded, and then
find out all about these things in
the life and character of Mr..
Ford, and conscientiously vote
for the higher character and the
one whose views, if carried to
perfection, would conduce to the
greatest prosperity and happiness
of our country.
1t is simply a foregone conclu-
sion as to what would be the rel
ative merits of the two gentle
men.
BY unanimous consent, in the
sense that rhetoric and finished
diction constitute eloquence, Col.
Breckenridge would be Mr..
Ford's superior, or the superior
of almost any man in the nation !;
but when that is said, all is said
that can be said for Colonel
Breckinridge's side of the ques-
ton, and in every other regard
Mr.. Ford would not only be his
superior, but immensely his su-
perior.
The Democratic managers here,
who are not the men of worth
and and dignity in the party,
have seemed to think that we all
ought to be happy to shine in the
reflected glory of Colonel Breck-
inridge's brilliant oratory in the
great cities of the East.
But when farmers, looking
around at the decaying farming
interests of this country, and
men of every other department
of business, except professional
Democratic politicians, see that
all interests here are based upon
agriculture, and remember that
Colonel Breckenridge has only
taken any part in agricultural in
terests by voting for free hemp
and to retain the tariff on sugar
"a two edged sword that cuts
the farmer going and coming
it does seem to me that a man
who had made a nice fortune at
farming, from a small beginning,
ought to be some closer to the
hearts of farmers than a man
who can't pay his debts, though
he had a good farm given him.
Then add to all this the fact
that while Colonel Breckenridge
left the pulpit to be one of six
teen Congressman who voted to
force the liquor traffic upon Kan
sas, Nebraska, Dakota and others,
that had said they did not want
the traffic in their borders, while
ninety-s six Congressman voted
against Colonel Breckenridge, all
this time Mr.. Ford, from his pull
pit and on his farm, has patiently
labored like a moralist and a
Christian hero to free our State
from the liquor iniquity that Col
onel breckenridge wants to up
hold, though he knows that
whisky has debauched his con-
freres, who with him represent
us at Washington, and is making
the very name of Kentucky a
Kissing and a by-word in the
mouths of proper-thinking men,
from Maine to Texas.
If the people would rebuke
this cowardly and infamous pan
dering to the gin singers that
Colonel Breckinridge's vote sig
nities, by defeating him over
whelmingly by this high toned
and noble man, who could not