Blue-grass blade., 1891-12-19
Mayor Davidson snd Lieuten-
ant Governor Afford I'm.
dicted for Selling Liquor
and Cigaretts to
Minors.

Lexington IreSs under the neau
of "Selling whisky to minors
prints as follows.
"Jl Hull Davidson, NJ. G. Afford
and d. F. Frazee, two indictments for
the same offense. Bail $500 each for
each offense."
Under the head of SELLING ciga
rettes to minors" the Press
prints.
81. Hull Davidson, NJ. G. Afford and
d. F. Frazee, four indictments for the
same offense. Bail 5000 for each
offense."::
j. Hull Davidson has lately
been supported by the principal
Republican and Democratic pa
pers of this city, and voted for by
Christians, real or alleged, repre-
senting every church in this city,
and was nominated by the Demo
Gratis for Mayor ofthis city.
MIR. NJ. G. Afford has been
voted for by Christians, real or al
legged, from all over the state OF
Kentucky, and was elected Lieu
tenant Governor of the State OF
Kentucky.
1 have personal friends, and
relatives who claim to be Chris.
tians, and who for years have been
commiserating me, and keeping
up a sanctified whine because
am an ''infdel."
They voted for Afford after
they knew he had become q
partner of ]. Hull Davidson
whose indictments for selling
liquor to minors they knew had
been published in the papers Of
this city before, and when there
was no reason in the world to
suppose that Affords partnership
with Davidson would stop thai
saloon from selling liquor tc
minors.
1t is a disgrace, not merely tC
Christianity. but to civilization.
Our country is not worthy o
the boon of political and religion,
freedom, barely has either of then
now, and will not have either O.
them in a few years more at the
rate We are now going.
What can be expected of peO
pie who elect to the second Office
of the state man who is engaged
in a business that is regarded by
all moral people as the lowest o
all the callings on earth, scaven
gers, boot-blacks and corn doctor
not excepted, and who can no
observe even the contemptibly
small restriction that the Law
throws around that.
1 never appeal to Deity, but in
the name of the God that yol
Christian people claim to worship
what do you expect to become o
your children after you, Will
you honor with your votes, an,
elect to rule osss-you a Governo
.ao1s fiddlag and dancing il
one room of a house that belong
to your Lieutenant Governor
while the Lieutenant Governo
was,in another room of that house
selling whisky to minors an(
probably to the son of your Con
gresham and one of your mos
prominent preachers, who retire
from the presence of the Governo
to mash eachother's faces in tis
fight in neighboring stable?
And yet Mr.. James p. Nelsol
of Lexington, that l never in m.
life heard of until his recent TRAD
against Bro. j. w. McGarvey-
the said Nelson representing him
self as a Christian, an specializin;
his unshaken faith in my friend
Jonah and the whale-thinks tina
Rev. McGarvey has gotten him
self into an unreasonable excite
ment by supposing there is any
thing very wrong about Lexing-
ton.
We have a saloon-kecpe
Mayor, a saloon-keeper Legislato
from this city, a saloon-keepe
Lieutenant Governor in the sa
loon business in this city, eight sa
loon-keepers in the City Council
275 saloons in the city, wit
groceries and drug stores beside
where whisky can be bought
about 500 strumpets for the regu
lar trade, with large importation
from Louisville and Cincinnati
when the races are on, and busi
ness is brisk, and between fort
and fifty "procuresses" living i
this city. For the benefit of tn
uninformed | will state that tn
last "she DEVILS" as Bro. Nc
Garvey appropriately calls then
are female creatures i'll huma
form whose business it is to entic
Young women into. these ira
doors 20 hell.
And vet Mr.. Nelson who speak
so reverentially and touchingly {
NV friend Jonah and of Jonah
friend the whale, who found iona
TO be a stranger and took him i
out of the wet-thinks that Bro
McGarvey has been unjust to Lex
ington in saying it was naughty
aud for his so doing he closes hi
remarks BY saying in circumlo
cutory way only appreciable b.
those who know the meaning G
the large words in the dictionary
that Rev. McGarvey is liar an
no better than the strumpets an
procurresses that he declaim
against.
O no. Lexington is not bad. 1t
a nice, sweet scented town. Co
Nelson says "Ninevah was no
quite so wicked as Jonah painte'
it, meaning TO imply that Lex
ington is not quite SO wicked a
Rev. McGarvey has painted it.
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