Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-11-21
Some Little Things that show
the Prohibition Outlook

On the streets of Lexington in
the last few days people have said
things to me that make me be-
lieve that the liquor infamy will
have to 60 down. 1t may take
some blood to do it, but it will go
down.
A gentleman of high standing
who is a valuable business man,
and has always been a Democrat,
was talking to me about the new
constitution of the State of Ken
lucky, and congratulated himself
that it arranged for the Australian
secret ballot system in voting.
He said 81 have not voted my
sentiments for years; my best
Democratic friends will 60 and
give their patronage to my Re-
publican rival in business, if / do
not vote with them"
1t seems to me a humiliating
confession, and that the difference
between that and selling ones
vote, in the way it is ordinarily
done, is merely technical, but It
was very significant of good to
the Prohibition party. Of course
that man does not propose to vote
with the Republicans when he can
"vote his sentiments"
l suppose he never heard or
read any Prohibition argument
in his life except the Blue Grass
Blade. He has read every copy
of that pizenous sheet from the
beginning, and the virus of it's
politics and religion has struck in
on him.
A large proportion of the Dem
ocratic party are nice people,
apart from their politics, and the
are ashamed of the fact, viii n
they recognize among themselves,
that the Irish and the saloon
keepers and bummers and drunk
en- politicians are running this city
and state. You can hardly find
a farmer in good standing in Fay.
cite county vino will not plainly
tell you that, but they can not
leave their business to squabble
among these town statesmen who
do their work at night in saloons.
The better class of Democrats
in the city are afraid of the boy
colt in their business, and they
have not the courage to face the
danger oft. But many of them
would be glad to "vote their SEN
timents" if they dared to do so,
and when they get the secret
ballot they will vote their senti-
ments.
They will vote to put down the
liquor supremacy, and l believe
they have sense enough to know
that nothing but Prohibition will
do that.
1 believe that many of them
will vote for Prohibition to beat
the Catholic element of usurpation
in the liquor traffic.
l want to see all religions, in
Guiding that of the Chinaman,
put on an equal footing here, but
it is plain that Catholicism is
demanding a political recognition
here as no other church would
dare to do.
1t is recognized as being all
right, that in a contest for an Of
flee between Catholics and Prot
estants, the Catholics should all
60 for the Catholic. But if, in
such a contest, the Protestants,
should all 90 for the Protestant,
not only the Catholics, but many
of the cowardly PrOtestants,
would claim that that was relig-
ious bigotry and intolerance.
Ut course we may have excep-
tons to this rule, but all intelli-
gent men will recognize the ac-
curacy of the general statement
that / make.
Another little instance of a
sentiment l got the other day, in
Lexington, from physician.
He told me that last August he
had cast his first vote for Prohi-
bition. He seemed to recognize
that 1 had felt discouraged by the
difficulties with which 1 had to
contand and he SAID. URrother