Blue-grass blade., 1891-12-12

, and dead beats, and teCnnlcaily
known as a mayor and council
with big police force; and she
would for less that 81 900 a year
manage the city better than this
array of Falstaff recruits would do;
all put together.
The people of Kentucky have
been under these old political
hacks and shysters and dema-
gogues, and a lot of editors that
have gone into the editing bust
ness because they were too trlfling
to succeed as type settlers and prin-
ther's devils, and under another
lot OF theological ''Pecksniffs" and
"Chadbands,' until they do not
even know what is going Oh in
the way of advancement in the
great world around them.
With the "gallant Kentuckian"
and the Confederate Colonel"
it is a maxim that "Prohibition
wont prohibit" and they think it
is smart to ding-dong it eternally
in our ears, as an apology for the
fact that our state is now, to-day,
a by-word end proverb in mouths
of other people, for drunkenness,
lawlcssness, ignorance and tagging
in the rear of everybody else;
when here is the fact admitted by
one of their own gang that even ii
woman can take a good law in her
hands and manage all this turbu-
lent element, that we hear so
much about, that will not submit
to having anybody dictate to
them what they shall eat and
drink.
| am a married man myself and
know what l am talking about.
When women set their heads,
you better bet something is going
to be done.
l am a farmer and have had
large experience in driving pigs.
Whenever one doesn't want to go
the way l want him to go, and he
turns around in the road and puts
his head right toward me, l have
found out l can economize time
by sitting down until the pig sees
cause to turn around of his own
accord.
Our men are of no account, but our
women have grit like grind stone,
and l wish We had ore not only
as Mayor of Lexington but as gov
ernor of Kentucky.
There are a thousand women
in the State of Kentucky who
could nurse twins and manage
their cwn families, lncludi -
husbands, and manage tbs state
better than the present Demo
cratic figure-head is now doing it.
They would not be fiddling away
their time at "shindig" when the
young bloods were MASKING each
others snouts, and bungirg up
each others optics, while drunk
enness and murder are stalking
abroad in the commonwealth, and
Sunday School cashiers are rob
biUg all the banks, and murderers
walking out of Jail in the day time,
and walking away without in
teruption, though one of them had
wooden leg.
We heard before hand that
Gov. Brown was going to play
thunder in the way of reformation
when he got into Office. So far |
defy anybody to point to anything
that he has done except figure at
balls, and pardon criminals, and
issue thanksgiving proclamation.
So for as material prosperity is
concerned, if these thing are con-
trollcd by Deity, Kentucky is
truly God blessed; but in every
other sense-reverentially and
humiliatingly be it said-it is the
most God damned state in the
Union.
We are the last of pea time
the tale end of the whole process
sion; and if some great revolution
ary movement does not turn the
tide of affairs in Kentucky, man
of any spirit and of any moral
convictions would just as soon live
in hell-especially in winter time
as to live here. | know some
goody good fellows will write me
some more letters telling ME that
l ought not to use language in a
paper that ladies read that | would
not use orally in their society; but
when the destinies of this country
hung poised in the balance of fate.
and "Light horse" Harry Lee did
not do right. George Washington
a man of some reputation in this
country-damned him bl .ck and
blue; and We got there.
have always had respect for
the character of Shimei in the
Bible, and vet nothing is said
about him except that he damned
old David.
If, after all | have said for
women, there is one in the state of
Kentucky who does not like me
and my paper because | doa't pol
isb up my utterer ces in talking
about these men, all in the world
they have to do is to notify me
and the Blade will not shock their
nerves any longer.
| am not built of such stuff as
that can talk calmly and in
rounded sentences, and rhetorical
fourishes OF the men who make
the laws that make it possible
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