Blue-grass blade., 1892-01-09

vi ehO OPROoASO SA0O Va viz
street, old Sister Royalty the wife
of a Democratic Magistrate had
just stopped me to tell me to call
the next Saturday and get my 81.
for the Blade. and to tell me that
she was for me. Inever thought
about it when the time came and
probably never will call, but it
shows who are for Prohibition
and me, and who are against us;
and l tell you the only formidable
enemies of Prohibition are preach
ers, and l am going to knock ssthe
cav dust out Of their whole trade,
if it be necessary to do it to beat
them.
In a few more issues of this pa
per such things as 1 am now say
ing will 60 to 10000 people, and
l will have somebody to help me
with the business part of my pa
per. l have never had half al
chance yet, end if 1 can raise all
this rumpus with say, 5000 fami-
lies to read-supposing each
Blade to 90 to t,oo families-and
running on only about half time
at that, and not half enough room
to say what want to say, what
in the devil wont 1 do when 1
have nothing to do but write to
10000 families, making thirty or
forty thousand people, and when
sit at home under my own vine
and fig tree and breech-loading
shotgun, where the Lexington
tough will be more afraid to come
than 1 am to 60 to Lexington?
l don t claim to be anything of
a genius, nor gifted ink singer,
nor anything of that kind; but l
have got a hat full of facts-as
big as Benny Harrison's grand
pa's-about theology, and when
that is dead sure the last resort,
l will turn them ZOOS ON the
preachers, and you better bet l
will make the fur fly.
| / could take those four preach
ers now, with the text that they
have furnished me, and when l
got througe with them, George
town theology would look about
like knighterrantry did when
Michaed Cervantes got through
4 with it.
Hundreds of you know that !
am not talking for buncomb. and
that l have already knocked out
Bartlett, Mcclellan and Mathews
two big gum Presbyterians, and a
boss: Campbellite- / dare
anyone of the three to say a word
against me orally or in print
! And 1 didn't half try with them,
but took all three of them in al
one side swipe.
Mcclellan went rushing around
Lexington, with the holy aroma Of
a Presbyterian prayer meeting
lading the air from his immacu
late vesture, like Coverings cot.
fee" used to do my fine drummer
) clothes, proclaiming not only tc
everybody else but even to me, tC
, my face, that I was "the worsI
man in Lexington" but all thu
. saloon-keepers in Lexington have
not enough money.o hire him t.
do It. Nowi have got q whole
, lot more of ,s,ls ITO hack me
than l had then, aud 1 hav.
/ things in soak for him that woult
$ make it so warm for him that. b,
t would want a palm leaf fan il
mid winter.
Iwant to be friend to thes,
preachers, and will be as long a
|, they, even approximately, preacl
. and practice the beautiful ant
q lovely morals that Jesus of Naza-
, reth taught; but the man VIII
+ votes against Prohibition votes fol
! the liquor traffic. the deepes
damned of all the infamies, tina
now disgrace or ever disgracet
h civilization.
g People who are friends to me
:. and some who are enemies, writ
t to me about my "gifted pen" ant
i a lot of stuff Of that kind.
!, There is no "gifted" about ii
: If there is any God, 1 am onl,
e speaking Gods truth, just as an.
S many of common sense could dc
y if he had the sand in his crav
= that would make him do it.
j. Fletcher johnson who got al
appointment at Washington unde
! Cleveland, told me the other da,
! that a certain political leader ant
= member OF the church in Lexing
ton, was liable to shoot me if
= persisted in talking as 1 do.
told him l would rather die RICH
= than live wrong; and that's m.
), ticket yet.
I'll l tell you the liquor traffic ha
# got to 60, and the apologist for ii
Y whether saloon-keeper o
preacher, will go with it, and j
I there is any devil they will 60 t.
o the devil.
Bro. Cody can dismiss me wit
" a plying smile, as he did tn
e other day, but on no royal wall Q
l. Babylon did the finger of Co
n eyer write more plainly. than ar
e written on the elegant walls @
y Bro. Codys new church here, nov
c being built with the money of
d distiller, and the very mortar O
: which is moistened with tears an
blood and whisky, Thou ar
. weighed in the balance and foun'
4 wanting"
n P. s. Since the above was writ
o ten, l have seen Councilman Viii
q NJ N