Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1892-01-09
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Mayor Davidson and Some
Others buy the Kentucky
Association Race Track.

Others buy the Kentucky
Association Race Track.
Hull Davidson, "Hop" Laude.
man. Holloway, and 1 think some
others have bought the Lexington
Race track for sos, ,O05, and every
gambler in the country is now
happy to know that that institu-
ton, that Rev. McGarvey, Lawyer
Beauchamp and Rev. Mathews
have lately blasted, from three of
the most prominent pulpits of this
city. will now be run at full
blast.
l am sorry to say that the utter
ances of Rev. Southgate, from the
pulpit lately. can not be classed
with those of the other two Rev.
ereDd gentlemen and Mr.. Beau
champ.
= Rev. Southgate's utterances, as
reported in the papers-whether
accurately or not, 1 know not-I
regard rs an apology for the race
course. bagnio, and saloon. He
is the man who cast the only vote
against a Prohibition resolution
that was introduced by a body of
the clergymen ofhis church, meet
ing in the High Street Methodist
church of this city, of which Rev.
Southgate was, at that time, and
of which he is now, the pastor.
He was 80 showed under by his
brethren at the time he voted
against the Prohibition resolution,
that he cr.ed, and they had to go
to him to pct him up, and promise
to give him some candy and doll
baby if he would not cry any
more; and when the newspapers
told about it we were all sorry for
poor Bro. Southgate. We sup
posed he had repented and
"wasn't goin' to do so no more"
but we got left. He was simply
laying for us until he got another
chance, and when McGarvey blew
that Gabriel blast against the race
track, the bagpio and the saloon,
6outhgate end Nelson went to the
rescue OF that triple infamy and
said a. m their defence thst they
would dare say, in the face of the
indignation that had been aroused
against it. When the anti Prohi
bition devil gets into q man it is
Just like scrofula in the human
system-you can never tell ho0 it
will develop, but it will come
every time. Southgate and Nell
son are two men that Prohibition
lists, and all men working for
public morals, ought to watch.
The first is a preacher and the lat
ter a man who, in his reply to Nc
Garvey took special pains to af-
firm his faith in the actual and lit
eral verify Of the Bible story of
my two friends Jonah and the
whale.
These are the slick articles like
Billy Silvertongue that We have to
set up with.
"Hop" Laudeman, the associate
of the saloon keeper Mayor David
son, is not a Chinee as you might
imagine.
The name "Hop" is short hand
for Winthrop II. Hopson, minis
ter of great prominence in the
Christian church in this city some
years since, who was much ad-
mired by the parents of our
"Hop," and in whose early infan-
tile precocity and piety they prob
ably thought they saw the coun-
terpart of the Reverend Doctor.
But "Hop" had a scheme that
would beat theology. + was
poor. He,went in on race horses,
and now he lives in an elegant
piece of new Queen Anne archi-
lecture. fronting the premises of
that deceased, elegant old Presby-
terian Judge Kinkead If Judge
Kinkead were living to-day,
"Hop" Laudeman could beat him,
'two-to one, for a position in the
Lexington city council, and the
Presbyterian Transcript of Lexing-
ton would help him to do it.
Holloway killed Shaw in this
city some years ago, and last
Spring met Hardesty on the street
and shot him. in broad day light,
right in front Of Davidson's saloon.
HoIloway's pool selling house was
lately closed here by order of the
Circuit Court, and I think the
other pool room that was closed
by the same court was run by
Davidson. The latter was lately
indicted here by the same court
for selling liquor to minors, as was
also his partner, Afford, the Lieu
tenant Governor of the state
Democratic Presbyterian Editor
John o. Hodges, who does moi
believe in the miraculous part O.
the Bible any more than l do, ant
not half as much as l DO in tht
morals of the Christian religion
told me not long ago that he hat
kept Hull Davidson from killing
me by telling him he would no
get to be Mayor of Lexington j
he did.