Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1892-01-09


that it was dangerous for me to b.
on the streets. He said "Charlit
Bronston may shoot you like 6
dog, if he meets YOU" Mr.
Bronston was then, and is now
Commonwealth Attorney. The
ground upon which it was thought
by some here that the Common
wealth's Attorney would have
reason to shoot me was that | had
printed in the Blade, exactly the
same thing that the other papers
of the city had printed about him
But it bad all been hushed up,
and the other papers were Demo
cratic papers and the Blade was
for Prohibition, and that made a
big difference, and then beside
that-as was suggested by the
Judge who lately threatened to
kill meethese Democratic and
Republican papers only circulate
around town and the neighbor-
hood here, while mine "goes all
over the country" the Judge says.
And then another thing; no
body had ever said of these Demo-
cratic aud Republican editors that
they would not lie.
Since l wrote that, Attorney
Bronston's brother has been shot
dead while drunk, and his con-
nection has spent some time in an
inebriate asylum.
Prohibitionists are to-day prais-
ing Attorney Bronston for assist
ing Rev. McGarvey in his on
slaught on the race tracks, the
bagnlos and the saloons, and just
as soon as Charlie BronstOn gets
the moral backbone to stand up
to the convictions of his very
bright intellect, he will be Pro-
hibitionist.
The man who, more than any
other, stirred up the sentiment
against me that made the idea of
shooting me "like "a dog" quite
popular in this city, was Rev. DR..
Bartlett, of the Presbyterian
church. He and Hull Davidson,
and another man whose brother is
now at an inebriate asylum, all
backed by the sainted and immac-
ulate Mcclellan, who ran one OF
the best Presbyterian preachers
clear out of Lexington, were the
men who publicly denounced me,
and endangered my life here for
weeks, because l said what / did
about Bronston.
McGarvey read, as did every
body in the city who could read,
what said, and lately in the pull
pit from which he preached the
gospel said ''Charlie Moore has
said some hard things but l never
caught him in a lie."
Bartlett's standing side by side
with Davidson in their joint at
tack upon me, has greatly helped,
1 believe, to make Davidson
Mayor of Lexington, and David
sons being Mayor gives great eclat
to the race course that he has now
purchased. Bartlett is therefore
the power behind the throne that
gives tone to the Lexington race
course.
In all this crusade that is now
being waged against the race
course and the bagniO and the sa-
loon has anybody heard of DR..
Bartlett taking any part? No, he
has not cheaped; and he is not go
ing to do it.
The Lexington Leader (Repub-
lican) that first brought out Hull
Davidson (Democrat) for Mayor,
and denied that was it's purpose
when l accused its editor Of doing
so, and said, in reply to my charge,
that it was only mentioning
Davidson's probable candidacy
"as a matter of news" has most
vigorously defended Rev. Demo
cratic F. F. V. Bartlett against
my alleged assault upon him, and
appeals to the ignorant and syco-
phantic worship of the clerical
cloth to excite its readers against
me.
When l was a little boy l was
dead gone on the idea of being a
blacksmith, and had my own lit
tie blacksmith shop.
My parents discovered in me the
eminent piety that now sheds a
lustre on every column of the
Blue Grass Blade, and switched
me off on to preaching. But un-
til this day there is to me some
thing grand in the brawny arm
and the manly calling of the black
smith, and l love to read that
poem beginning,
Meath the widespread elm tree
The village smithy stands"
but the preacher, who slings the
gospel for money, and is actually
instructed in the art of praying in
schools for the purpose, always
suggests to me some such charac-
ter as Sardinapalus, as they sit
among their women who work on
!. Christmas slippers and gowns fol
them, and occasionally "skip by
the light Of she moon" with the
} best looking of them.