Blue-grass blade., 1892-09-03

~ i-4-S'~ az ID al SAT aleHA SocuS- OrtnOuOS
Christian, OF the Methodist stripe.
think, aud 1t woul seem natural that
he should te stuck on Sam. IAt that's
only half. If there's another man in
the United States who is as good Pro-
hibitionist as am it is Bro. ". W. God
dard of lIarrodsbulg. Ky. lie is just
as straight goods hcathen rs / am,
and VIII cuss little beside when he
hears some fool talking against woman
suffrage. But he's dead gone on Sam
Jones, AMI will talk Your arm off about
him any time you have two or three
days to listen TO him. Now how do
you account for that kind OF Il mixtry
Let me give yon 4 pointer. The Mil.
lennirm IS coming, and il will be here
lefOre yog know il. In twenty-five
years from now the people will no more
listen to 4 man preach who does not
vote for Prohibition than they would
listen TO a horse thief preach The
Kentucky preacher to-day who votes
for this drunken Democratic gang that
has charge OF the politics of this state
is worse than forty horse thieves.
There IS no comparison. During the
war, many z man who is now 4 good
citizen stole = horse or several of them.
When they had nc in Jail down at Par
is there was 4 great big honest hearted
farmer that had Il fist like q hog mall
that used to come 20 sec me tGo or
three times week. He Was Il Presby-
tcriac, and the first time ever saw.
or heard OF him, he and an Irish Cath
Ole came TO see me at the Jail, and he
quoted to me that / had said in the
BLADE that Catholicism was the worst
religion that the devil had ever invent
ed except pres5ytcrian:sin, and then he
told me that he was Presbyterian and
that the other fellow was Catholic
told them yes had said it, and I
would say it again. / was trying to
bluf them. Things were looking aw-
ful squaily for ne down there, about
that time, AM didn't know whether
those two fellows were going to heal 2
mob TO hang me orlyt. Thought til Y
might be campba'lite preachers or Dis
tiilers, or b..h. aal know thsre was
no teiiirg what that combination
would do. aEccn. a5mething that was
honest.
Well. when I SAID what I did they
both pulled out their money and paid
me for my paper Tor 4 year in advance.
That Presbyterian was Rebel SOL
dier. lie fought all ,ha way through
III, wa~ and he an3 his gang kept il
III for 3 month or two after Lee had
surr.nlcr=d as ADpox,stax, bccausa he
was away of sosnawhsro sad die not
ha& ozi tHss szs rsr rs,. av-y unsii.vo
- ssrSz 0s.sfss .ts<B
That Pecsb-t to-.an had had about
twenty FIVE fist fights since the war,
and lie would have whipped Sweeney
and Remington for me any day I en-
couraged him to do It, lie liked me, SO
he said, for what had done for the
Rebel boys during the war, then he
hated Sweeney on general principles,
and then he hated him like any Presby-
terian hates a Campbellitc, and then he
hated him because he is 4 Republi-
can. AS for Remington, the fact that
he was one OF the "four braves" that
captured me at Springvale, has fixed
his standing in the estimation OF any
truly brave man.
So that, in spite OF that Prcsbyte-
rian's religion, he is man after my
own heart.
But what ! was going to say about
that Presbyterian was that he talked
about stealing a horse during the war,
as if he did not think it any more harm
than Sunday school superintendent
cashier would thinll it was TO steal
money ont OF bank. never exactly
stole horse myself, but when ! was Il
college boy have, pretty early in the
night. borrowed some fellows horse,
saddle and bride, and neglected TO not
ify the owner that had done SO, and
after had ridden out in the mountains
auI the moonlight until abort midnight,
have brought him jac,, and put him
IL some ether fellows stable, for his
owner n glit lie around if l brought
him back 10 where / got him; bit !
am not enough Of a hypoeritc to stand
in pulpit and, under the guise of try
ing to do good for humanity, preach
Christianity and then go and vote with
either OF those gangs. that representing
Democracy and Republicanism, lately
disgraced civilization at Minneapolis
and Chicsgo. by crowding like beasts
into every saloon and bawdy house in
those two cities and thus inviting the
youth of the land to DO the same.
an going 90 talk to you straight.
These things are disgracetul. You nay
p.c,: OF. the hest 2opu5licaa and Dem
orratic preachers IN Kentucky who
nave intelligence AMI common sena
enough t. appreciate lie crime againsl
civilization that thy are committirr
when til. vote wita tAat kind of cat
tie, and Il heaven is - be peopled
with that Kind OF palm singing
hyroc.iLos, gant my baggage
checked for the other plac, as soon Us
the breath is out OF my body
Talk abont religion and patriotism
and Southern chivalry and Democracy,
and talk about sending the gospel to
.ha hc2then. while Eourhca county
WI J.! Republican Camu5cll.ts
pre2cacr who hz. igst capacity enough
~ syso. ia ii.s ghs->-.igs with so.ss
fool IetNos.as asaut 2 ~ = a ~ Is biss.
aId who IN ii no llorJ dacznog than TO
tura the boaoms or his shoes, propprd
on 4 chair, TO my wifes FACE, rs she
sat ia the court house watching my
cas-, the very picture Of grie! and the
object OF The sympathy Of every true
naa III the nouso-thinil of letting
man Of his moral and intellectual cut
come TO the Elue grass region of Ken
tucily, from the back woods of some
Western state, and when enough Of
disgrace Lad lcrallcn his family to
ring q blush 10 the cheek Of u govern
ment mule, snoh g irliow rs that can
go on with = J.. of oil rich whisky ig-
rora,nu,e~, anl put, not only me, the
grandson Of Barton Y Stone, with the
LI.oa OF tAn hrgylcs in my veins, in
iail ~ PR yv..n The. lpV-p.t CF ,noro