Blue-grass blade., 1891-11-28
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tlmentS OF Its editorial columns,
and admitted that it did this in
advocating the claims of DAVID
son, saloon proprietor, for Mayor
ofLexington.
If anybody says l mean to in
sinuate in the following account
that the Transcript has been paid
by Scrugham to write the piece |
deny the charge.
l do not know anything about
lat and. do not insinuate any
as. l only say that If l had
taken money from Davidson under
the circumstances that the Tran
script did, / would not hesitate to
take money from Scrugham for
writing this piece that the Tran
script has published, but l do not
set myself up as a criterion for
others.
The plain facts in the case of
Scrugham are these. He played
the regular Sunday. School teacher
game; robbed the bank of which
he was cashier of SOS 900, deserted
a loving wife and children, and
ran off to Canada. He has prob
ably been unsuccessful in gam
bling: his money is all gone, and
now the scheme is to get the new
Democratic governor to pardon
him so that he can come home to
his Sunday-School class and get
another soft place.
- DO not know anything about
v. Brown except that nearly
Try drunkard in the state, who
sober enough to get to the polls
d for him, and suppose that
tenths of all the saloon men
md distillers in the state voted for
him.
Among all the saloon-keepers
and distillers that I know, and
know of, 1 think there is only one
who voted against Governor
Brown.
About the time that this scheme
to get the governor to pardon
Scrugham is going on, the gov.
ernor was at a ball in Lexington
from which two of the leading
spirits, a son of Congressman
Breckenridge and a son of Rev
Arnold, retired to livery stable
and mashed up each others faces
in fist fight.
l do not know that Governor
Browns being at the ball has any.
thing to do with the matter more
especially under consideration
further than the fact that it Shove
gay and festive disposition in the
governor that might give hin
some sympathy with the gay and
festive Mr.. Scrugham. The Tran.
script bases its argument for the
pardon of Bro. Scrugham on the
fact that others have been par.
doned who did just as bad as Bro
Scrugham.
The Transcript is solid in thai
position. Nor is that all. We
have now in this state the case Of
man who absconded with the
money of a great many people
The papers said he would be put
in the penitentiary if he were evel
caught. He came back after ;
while, was elected Mayor of his
town, and not long since wa.
elected to another important Office
he rolling out the whisky by the
barrel, and a drunken fight result
ing in which several men were
killed and wounded.
The Transcript is right in it.
position that the rule here is thai
the men who steal On big gen.
tlemanly scale shall not be pun
ished for it. IF the devil has no
got "honest" Dick Tate, and doe
not get him before the S350.O0
that he stole from the state O
Kentucky gives out, Bro. Tate
who along with Bro. Scrugham
was leader in the Baptist church
will be back too.
1t is very touching, the style il
which the Transcript talks abou
Jimmy" When we used t.
-tnow him here five years ago, ant
before he had been published a
having stolen S55, 900, he wa
known as plain "Jim;" but tn,
privations he has undergone il
living in Canada hotels has en-
deared him to the great thrObbin,
generous heart of the Lexington
journalist. and we hear of him a
"Jimmy."
1t looks to me like a blaste,
shame that Jimmy" should hav
been ostracised as he has for tn
peccadillo of taking $4,000; AM
i believe he ought to bring sui
against the state for the loss O
time and the inconvenience he ha
sustained, for the matter of steal
ing $4,000 to bet on a horse race
when his only purpose in doing s
was ''to get even again" he havini
bet on the horse that did not &c
there soon enough.
In a country where the "uppe
crust" Christian people go t.
horse races, and the city govern
ment authorizes "pnof' rooms
and the aristocracy vote for tn
managers of pool rooms, it dee
look hard that for the mere matte
of pocketing S55, 200 to bet on
race horse, a beloved Sunday
School teacher should be put t
all this Inconvenience, and annoy
ance.
But the Transcript tells tn
story SO much more tOuchingl,