Blue-grass blade., 1891-12-12

anu Iema!e, OF the EX-GOVernOl
that his regular mode of exercise
was thrashing his wife.
Now remember that this gen.
tleman was not country pumpkin
from way back, but a learned
physician who used long diction-
AIRY words until they made my
head swim, as | had not had any
dinner, and was feeling a little
rickety in consequence Of the
rathologic sympathy between my
esophagus and cerebrum.
Next day l struck another sam
pie of the material we have to
work on.
There are millions of people
who have not the courage TO do
right simply because it is right,
but they will do it if they can get
enough others TO go in with them
to make it popular. They always
tell you they don't want to throw
their votes away, but will vote
for Prohibition when they think
it has any chance to Win"
To help people of this kind the
National Prohibition Executive
Committee, or the New York
Voice, has gotten up what they
call the million vote pledge"
In that pledge each man agrees
to vote for the Prohibition candi-
dates for President and Vice Pres
ident in 1892, if a million men
will promise to do the same thing.
The blanks will be furnished to
any body applying fer them, free
of cost, by the New York Voice
or by me, or by many others and
they are now being circulated all
over the United States and getting
signatures-by the thousands [
suppose-every day and being
sent to the New York Voice to be
registered.
l was getting signatures to one
ofthese pledges, and went to
man who has been a professor in
Georgetown college, and who is
to-day one of the pillars and sup
ports Of the Baptist church here.
L presented him one of these
blanks to see if he would sign it.
There We're on it only a few names,
but they were the v,ry best men
in the town.
L did not know how he stood
politically, but he was nice good
man and a good, gfneraiy intelli-
gent citizen, and l thought he was
probably a Prohibitionist. l no.
ticed however that he did not sign
the pledge. | asked him how he
stood on the liquor traffic, aud
found he was frantically opposed
to it. l still could not tell
whether he was Prohibitionist,
and asked him if he voted for
Fisk and Brooks.
He said no, and that he would
not vote for any men who were
"fnar cial failures" said to him
"Gen. Fisk was not only success
as capitalist, but he was a hu-
manitarian and has given away a
thousand dollars where you have
given ten, and l think that Mr..
Brooks has gotten fair salary as
a preacher"
Then he began to hedge, and
said he did not allude to their in
dividual success, but to financial
policy of their party. asked
him if he knew what the Prohibi-
ton national platform said upon
the subject of finance and after
some wriggling he admitted that
he did not. "Then he said II
object to all the isms in the Pro-
hibition party" l asked him
what was one of its isms. He
would not say, until l drove him
TO the wall, and then he got mad
and said "Woman Suffrage" and
then | got mad and went on about
my business.
1t was pretty early in the morn
ing-both of us were sober-and
there was an election going on,
Democrat against Democrat for
some little two-for-fvc Office, and
just as | started on to 90 to Lex
ingtOn man came up to him and
asked him to 60 down to manage
things at a certain voting place,
and he said he would do so.
There was the usual whisky
drinking of such days, and when
l came back to Georgetown -,
dark, just within a few steps OF
where that pillar of the church
and | had talked, there lay a
handsome young man dead, who
had Just fallen with several bullet
holes in him. | came on to my
house, and almost the last man l
saw On the street was drunk, and
at 3 o'clock next morning, Sunday,
my wife and | were wakened by
loud swearing of what seemed to
be drunken men on the streets.
The man who was killed had
not long ago killed a man in a
SaIoon tUhr hpra and had hoen
pardoned out of the peniteptiary
by the Governor.
Do yon think you can make me
believe that men such as | was
talking to have not sense enough
to see the connection between
their votes, and the whisky that
flowed, and the blood that was
flowing from that young mans
heart? Never, as long as | have
sound reason.