Blue-grass blade., 1891-06-06

ISL. "A IelloW Ilailleu Jim Apple
ton, a saloon-keeper there, who is
a political leader there just as sa-
loon-keepers are political leaders
in Lexington, thought he would
make a new departure that would
astonish the natives; and he did.
Jim had probably done a great
deal to elect Washburne, and
Wash had promised to reciprocate.
Jim, like a genuine saloon-keeper
that he was, didn't suffer much
from diffidence, and he told Wash
that he wanted to start a saloon
at the corner of Vernon Avenue
and Thirty-frst street.
That was the very center of
the aristOcracy of Chicago, and it
was about as if Vine or Water
street man in Lexington should
ask Mayor Foushee to allow him
to establish a saloon right in the
middle of "SiIk Stocking Row."
~6n Short, right by the side of
the Northern bank block, or
among the aristocracy out on Sec
ond street, where the vines climb
over the residences of private
bankers, and Eepiscopal rectories,
and the homes of aldermen,
and places of that ilk, or out on
the new brick paved Third street
among the dignified and orderly
Presbyterians and Methodists who
praise God on Sunday and vote
for whisky on Monday. Or Jim's
location for his saloon in Chicago
would, in Lexington, be about
like q man had proposed to open
a saloon right out in the middle
of the new "Queen Anne" homes
on East Maxwell, or on North
Broadway along beside Hamilton
College, or down in Fayette park,
or right out in the middle of the
uncovered residences at Wood
land Park, or right in there among
the aristocracy on East Main.
You know if man were to APP
ply to our Lexington Mayor for a
saloon license for some where
along about the middle of "Silk
Stocking Row." he would laugh
and cuss him and would not give
it to him. The man might argue
the case with him, and tell him
that a saloon had lately been es-
tablished on Limestone between
Main ind Short, contrary to the
wishes of all the good people who
live there, and they were nearly
all good people. But our Mayor
would recollect that those Lime
stone people were people who had
to work for their living, and be-
sides that. some of them were Pro-
hibitionists, and had no political in
fiuence, while rich people did the
business and owned the property
on "Silk Stocking Row." and
that was a horse of another color
Our Mayor would tell you with
hpride that he ate his dinner on
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years, but you would find that he
knew which side his bread was
buttered on and you would soon
see that he recognized a broad
difference between the ACCESSIBILITY
of sticking saloon right up be-
side the place of business of a
working man on some narrow
side street, and putting one beside
the brown stone and plate glass
front of some big nabob on
some fashionable street.
The man that wanted to put q
saloon on "Silk Stocking Row
might argue that his personal re.
spectability had been permanently
established by the fact that he
was an Alderman of the city Of
Lexington, the "Athens of the
West, that the saloon business
had been recognized by the gov.
eminent of the United States, by
the State of Kentucky, and by the
City of Lexington as being as hon
orable as any business conducted
on "Silk stocking Row.. Then
the saloon man might say to oul
Mayor that saloon-keeping was
recognized by the city of Licking
ton as the most respectable an(
laudable business in the city
This he could easily show from
the fact that for years there had
been ten times as many saloon.
keepers in the city council as any
other one profession, and thai
now it was full of them; while
there was not a preacher nor {
professor, nor a doctor, nor &
lawyer..ln it. One editor repre-.
sented all the learned professions
in the council, and stood like :
sweet scented oasis in a Sahara Of
saloon-keepers.
All of this our "Uncle Charley
would recognize as true, but the
saloon-keeper would not get OF
"Silk Stocking Row." all the
same.
1t would not be because thai
saloon-keeper did not have just a,
much right to do his bushes.
there as he had to run a saloon on
Water street, but he would not get
there all the same, because "Unclt
Charley" would not have the sane
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