Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-12-12

respectfully. | saw he was an CRY,
and said | did not want to stop.
He said he was not mad and as
sured me that he wan ted to have
a fair talk with me.
| then said as we were going
the same way we would walk to
gether.
He asked me if I did not claim
to be a truthful man. 81 said l
try to tell the truth"
He then said he was Il man of
family and a member of the
church and that | had lied about
him, in saying that every man on
that Democratic ticket that |
published would take drink Of
whisky, and that | had associated
his name with those of bummers
and roughs.
| said TO him that | did not say
that every man there would take
a drink of whisky, but that l said
| beIiered they would, and that |
thought he would find that those
were my words, and that the word
beliered was understood.
About that time he again twice
called me a liar. l tried to find
in my pocket an issue of the Blade
that contained the article of which
he complained, but could not. l
now write with copy of that is
sue before me. and reproduce
what | said as preliminary to my
account of that Democratic ticket
upon which Mr.. AS name APP
pears.
1t is,as follows:
Now am going to tell you about
that Democratic ticket" that the
Transcript thinks is such lovely lot
for the interest of this city. / will
state what / believe to be facts about
them, and they will be recognized as
such by hundreds.of prominent men
in this city, and upon the accuracy OF
this statement / am willing to stake
my reputation as a newspaper repor'
ter, in a case that would not demand
special investigation.
If any gentleman in good standing
in any learned profession in LeXing
ton, except journalism, believes that
my statement is so inaccurate as tC
indicate prejudice in me, in making it
and will write to me to that effect
over his own name l will publish his
communication in the Blade, if he
will specify the particulars in which
he thinks 1 have misreprcsentet
them.
| then asked him if il was {
TACT that he would not take drinl
of whisky. l either did no
clearly get his answer, or have
forgotten it, but / said to him
that | Jeliered he would do it a
the time | wrote that, and that i
/ had been betting man | would
have been willing to bet four to
one-meaning at the time 1 wrote
tbat-that he would have taker
a drink of whisky. / then said
abiding to the fact that he hat
said | associated him with bum
mers-"YOu are connected will
a political party that upholds ane
encourages the most nefariou
traffic that was ever conducted il
America"
He then volunteered to say
that what l had said about hin
was simply repetition Of what
the Transcript IA Democratic pa
peri had said, but he said that a.
the transcripts circulation wa.
only about home here he did no
mind that, but that it was a diff
ferent thing when / printed it il
my paper that Went all over thu
country, where the people knew
him.
He then shook his finger within
two inches Of my face, in a man
ner that appeared to me to be in
: tended as an insult, and that il
commonly so regarded by the
"code," and said to me eff you
ever put my name in your pape
again l will kill you"
| made no comment, and he re
peated it. l then signified to hin
by my actions that [ supposed
he had said all he had to say, an,
| started on for | was in a hurr,
and had just as much business a
) | could attend to, before my trail
time.
He told me to stop until Ia
could get witnesses to the warn
: ing he had given me, but | die
not stop.
The statement Of Mr.. A. that h
said, three times [ had lied il
making. was the statement tina
t Rev. McGarvey read out of TIN
Blade from the pulpit of tn
r Broadway Christian church las
{ Sunday evening, to an audienc
of over a thousand men, and thel
said Charley Moore has SAT-
4 some bad things but | have neve
caught him in "a lie;" and he wa
} cheercd by the audience; so quit
a number of people have told me
+ the words of Mr.. Lee Loevcnhari
. for instance, being, "They cheere'
1 to the echo,' but he meant it AM
} | understood it as poetic by
perbole
The full text of Prof. Nc
Garvey's sermon on that occasion
5 as reported by himself, excep
:, some things that he though
D would not be proper to print 70
general reading, will appear in tn
a next Blade.
: No sermon in Lexington ha
+, ever created such sensation, an,
D "a remark 70 me, that was mad
z by Democrat, was that 9Th
} ball had been started and the,
t ought to keep it rolling.
a AS an evidence of how what
: have been saying has been re
I ceivcd by the rery finest citizens i