Blue-grass blade., 1892-09-03


said in letter to me, and which ]
, had forgotten, "What if Brother
Sweeney does drink; what harm is
there in it?' Isaid to him I'll
there is no harm in it suppose there
could be no harm in saying so."
have letter from q man who
claims to be a member of that church
that says that Sweeney's father is a
whisky drinker and a member OF
that church. Sweeney's daughter
is represented to me to be a member
of that church. Not long since the
Blue Grass Clipper, Of Midway, Ky.
printed an article saying that Sween-
ey's daughter had been drunk on the
streets of Midway, that she had cor
rupted the morals of a young man
whose name it gave, and Of whom it
is said that he had been 3 nice young
man; about twenty men, among the
prominent citizens Of the town, sign
ed an article the purport of which
was that they did not want her to
live in Midway, and q press tele-
gram from Washington stated that
she was dismissed from the postal
service for immoral conduct.
1 never heard any one say at Par
is that Sweeney drank "to excess" !"
as they call it, but it was a thing of
common report that he takes his
dram, especially when he goes fish
irg.
1t was reported at Georgetown
that during the time Of Sgeeney's
debate with Ditzler he contracted q
debt of $500 az the Wells house and
left 1t !cr the church to pay. The
Wells house and its bar belong to a
N ,mber OF the Christian church in
6 ,orgctown. went to see the
Wells house bar keeper about the re-
pert about Sweeney. 1 found him
liking drink for man who is a
leader in Democratic politics and
Baptist religion. and / talked to the
bar keeper about Sweeney's case
when the brother was done. lam of
the opinion that that report about
Sweeney's bill of six dollars is not
true, but L think he got more or less
liquor from that bar, which was
probably sent to his room by friends.
There is woman who is a men,
Der of the Paris Christian church
who habitually gets so drunk that
she reels on the streets, and the fact
that she thus gets drunk is known to
almost anybody in the town. She
was good friend to me, 80 i under
stood, and / hate to allude to her
case, and only do so to prove the
truth of what / have said.
know of my personal knowledge
very little about Paris, and shall now
give some cases that only know OF
from information furnished me by,
what seemed to be, good and intelli-
gent citizens of Paris.
Lon Haley is that son-in-law Of
George White, aad is 4 partner with
White in the distillery. He
is an Irishman and left the
Catholic church to join
the Christian church in Paris, Ca
no Lear and Arch Stout are saloon
keepers and members of that church.
William Current is a saloon keep
er whose family are members of that
church, and he pays for the support
of that church though he is not
member. / heard the number in the
the membership of that church esti-
mated from one thousand to twelve
hundred. and a gentleman, some of
whose family are members of that
church said to me that he supposed
there were two hundred people in
the church who drank whisky. Mr..
Davis was a witness for the church.
He seems to be regarded as one of
the best men in the town. He said
be was familiar with the usages of
the church and that he had never
known it to exclude any body.
There we're three women who testi-
fled for the church against me. One
was related to the present Mayor of
Paris, and of the other two one was
the wife, and the other a sister-in-
law of a former Mayor of Paris.
The former Mayor was q very prom
inent member in the Christian
church there. He was 6 Wholesale
liquor dealer, willie member of that
church and became bankrupt and
committed suicide n the Ashland
hotel N AeXiI gton. The details of
it we're published, a. the time, in the
lie ,ilg on and Paris papers, and are
ssi resh in the minds of the peo-
PC OF this country. That was q
sample of the cases that were allud-
ell to in the letter to me from Paris,
my publication of which gave such
ofense to the people OF that town.
Horace Miller is deacon in the
Christian church at Paris. | have
now in my possession letter written
me by q woman of Paris who SAYS
that she is member of the Paris
Christian church. She states in her
letter that Horace Miller occupies a
pew that IS the n front of her,
says that Miller prAys publicly in
the church, and that at an election a
year or two since, in which Miller
was 4 candidate. Miller furnished
whisky to her husband and son-in-
law that so made drunkards of them
again, after one had quit for a year
and the other for three years, that
she and her daughter had been COM
PEELED to support the family. / had
heard before got that letter that
Miller had used whisky to secure
his election, and that he had teen
beaten by Presbyterian who also
used whisky and that he was the
son-in law of a Presbyterian minis
ter. Both were Democrats, Grad
dock, the partner with Remington,
in the editing of the Keatuckian-
Citizen, a Democratic paper first told
Inc this account of Miller. 1t was
on the street in front of the North,
ern bank in Lexington.
\ man from Paris was lately in
Lexington and talking in the pres.
ence of \ friend of mine against me
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