Blue-grass blade., 1891-06-06

NTuSS Diuue Hub, duu 10, ucI1Ou'
itrating to the world that a radi.
Jal change is going on in the Blue
grass region. Expectation was
On tip-toe that he would have been
iotten-cgged, cowhided, pistolet
or knitted If not killed long before
BOW for his fearless, plainness Of
speech. Now such expectations
have gone to sleep and could moi
be aroused to take such bet with
big odds.
The Blade is having a time
proving that the Somerset Re.
porter is not a Prohibition paper,
The difficulty is not simply "in
rffirming a negative" but it is a
GEAR case of Blade VS.. Blade. The
Yoice copied paragraph from
the Blade stating that there were
four other Prohibition papers in
Kentucky. The Blade recopies
and denies that the Reporter ia
Que. The Worker is appealed to
to umpire the game. Here's our
decision. As Blade has affirmed
both sides of the question we will
call it ga draw" 50 far as The
laade is concerned. But from
the Rept rter's ages of several is
sues we have received, we con-
cmdcd that il it is Prohibition
piper it is not doing much at the
business. In fact it claims to be
and is simply good county
paper, non partisan, while its edi-
tor personally is a Prohibitionist.
We have left the Worker, the
Southern Journal and the Blade;
but the greatest OF these is the
the. Wouldn't fill it up for
a spring chicken.
The National Committee has
pursuaded The Blade to engage
regularly its patent Prohibition
matter. We wondered how
Moore would solve the problem
for he now hasn't elbow room for
bis own pen in its pages. He
edits it like Harper run his race
horse, ''from eend to eend." The
man or woman is highly favored
who gets anything in it except an
advertisement. But Moore was
equal to the emergency. He
-siihply makes the Blade bigger.
Ifthey double up patent matter
heIwill make it, no doubt still
shi2gersasIf we remember Alright,
hosOnce run the biggest paper in
KSntucky at Midwaya But he
kaas our consent. We can skip the
patent matter and have as much
moore as Of yore.
Wouldn't l be glad it that last
sentence in that first item were
true.
The second item appears in The
Worker under the head "Three
Strikes and out" lam satisfied
with his Judgment between the
Reporter and me. He sizes the
status up exactly right, only l
would have said that a man who
can edit a non. partisan paper now
is a mighty poor shake for a Pro-
hibitionist. But Bro. Neal is an
olive branch man, and | reckon
we need little olive oil on the
troubled waters.
About the "patent matter in
the Blade; it Bro. Neal calls the
Prohibition news that is furnished
by the Prohibition National Exc
cutive Committee under the
management of Secretary j.
Lloyd Thomas. "patent matter,'
simply because the committee has
arranged to send it to papers
cheap and in "plate," then it's all
right. But would not like for
any one who had never seen the
Blade to suppose from Bro. Meals
reference that | had in it any OF
this three-legged chicken, patent
corn crib, meet -me-by- moonlight
alone stuff
| wish, by the way that Bro.
Neal would enlarge his paper (you
VIII notice that did not say your
"valuable paper" newspaper men
are sometimes pretty hard on each
otl'er, but they always draw the
line at that irony) SO a, to make
il take in the National Commit
tees "biler plate"
| like his cditOria Is, especially
those that give me tatfy and hit u
side swipe at the Somerset Repor-
ter.
I've got to kick just q little
againt that statement of Bro.
Meals that "rhe man or woman
is highly favored who gets any
thing in it but an advertise
nient."
! believe he will remember that
! have printed IL standing invita-
tiOn to ladies to contribute any.