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

e OF Ioiice does his DUTY, ana th'
j duty Of the Council to see tina
). the Mayor does his. The City
d Attorney and the City Judg'
r have their part in it Why ther
i is it rot done? | will tell yol
r why. The city of Lexington be-
D longs-to the Democratic party
e and the Democratic party belongs
e to the gamblers, saloon-keeper.
and bummers, who control its pri
2 mary elections. These classes
e dictae c the election of sufficient
/. number of their own men to pre-
5 vent pny serious interference with
? the 'snmoralities of the town.
, They will permit no man to be
/ elected to any municipal Office
; who 1:res to come out openly
with an endorsement of such a
speech as 1 am now making.
They take possession of the poll
ing places at the primary elections
and will not allow a gentleman to
cast lis vote unless they know
what It is to be. They have
hitched all of you decent Demo-
Gratis n the traces and they have
mounsed the box, whip and lines
in hand. The buss behind is
filled with saloon-keepers,
strumpets and gamblers, and you,
like little ponies, are pulling
along.
If any of you tries to kick out
of the traces at any time, the
party whip is cracked, you are
threatened with boycott, and you
Immediately quit kicking. Look,
for example, at the ticket now in
the field. Did you see Charley
Moores analysis of it yesterday in
his Blade? Charley says some
very lad things, but l have never
yet caught him in a lie. He says
that on this ticket there are five
saloon-keepers, and three ex-
saloon keepers. twenty-one pa
tronizers of the saloon, six hard
drinkers (he calls them drunk
ards); and four race horse men.
They nave some good men sand
wiche6 among these; but when
the wi ole of them come into
power. these few can do nothing-I
they will be handcuffed and
tongue-tied. Let me say, that l
speak thus of the Democratic
party! not from a Republican
point If view, for l have never in
my lifs voted for a Republican.
| speak the plain truth, which
ought to be spoken, and 1 sup
pose that nothing l say will be
con.s6ii;cted.
Is there any remedy for these |
crying evils? Perhaps some of
you are ready to answer: No we
are helpless; we can do nothing;
and it is not worth while to be
talking about it. You say, for
example, that it is impossible to
prevent the existence of bawdy
houses in city like this. But l
know better. | know that it is
not impossible? There is the city
of Glasgow in Scotland with &c..
600 inhabitants, and there is
not house of i'll fame in the cor
porate limits. There is Edinburg,
with its 100000, which not only
has none within its limits, but
none within two niles of its
boundry. In the hospitals of
those cities there are no cases Of
venereal diseases. These facts l
state on the authority of Dr.
Sweeney, who is present, and who
took special pains to inquire into
the fact when he visited Great
Britain a few years ago. What,
then, is the remedy in Lexington?
First and foremost of all, you
must Danish party politics form
your city elections Good men
of both parties must get their con-
sent to vote in city elections for
no man because he is Democrat,
or because he is a Republican,
to vote for a man only because he
can be relied On to manage hon
estly the city's finances, and to
enforce with the utmost strictness
all ordinances against every form
of immortality. The moral forces
of the city combined in this way,
can do anything that honest men
ought to do; and if they will not
do it, they may make up their
minds to go on in their impotence,
and be slaves instead ofbeing free
men. l love this city. Here
have reared my children; here l
have buried one of them; here
my grandchildren are growing
up, and here | expect ere long to
be buried; and when | think OF
the things of which | have
spoken, l dread the thought of
appearing at the bar of God until
| shall have done more for the
future protection ofbOys and girls,
and especially of the tatherless
girls among us, than l have all
ready done. | have much more
that l would love to say to you,
but | must desist. l close with
this proposal: Ii "a goodly number
of true men, men who are afraid
of nothing on earth or in hell but
to do wrong, will come together,
appoint their leaders, and lay out
their plans for the suppression of
these evils, | am ready to enlist
for the campaign; yes, for the
whole war, and if it shall cost me
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