Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-06

'infdelity" in it. 1 do not thinl
| told him / was going to edit
Prohibition paper. Ny impression
is that l told him the paper woul,
be "edited in the interests of goo,
morals generally"
1t has been edited against al
the popular evils, and in favor o
all the most salient virtues, to tn,
best of my ability, under the cir
cumstances. Had it been editec
in favor ofaaloons and Democracy
and avowed in6delity, l do mo-
think he could at law avoid tn,
obligation he has signed
| Certain Democrats here among
whom were such lawyers as Judge
Hunt aud Mr.. Shelby who wanted
to avoid payment of their sub.
scription on the same paper, did
not claim at all that they were re.
leased by any failure on my par,
ITO comyly with my part of the
contract, real or alleged; but they
avoided the payment by defeating
the proposed incorporation of the
stock holders, and thus availed
themselves OF a technical advan-
tage.
Men of their standing do not
generally avail themselves of a
legal advantage, to avoid a debt
that has at least some appearance
of being equitable, if there is any
other plea upon which they can
avoid payment. 1 therefore infer
that learned judge. who was the
leader of those who wanted to
avoid the payment, has decided
that a legal technicality was the
plea to which they were driven,
and that therefore the defense of
Mr.. Rogers was not, in the
Judges judgment, atenable one.
There were other preachers in
the Christian church embracing
some who were among the most
prominent of them, who signed
that obligation. There were also
other preachers in other churches
who signed it. Every one of
them has paid, and done it cheer
fully, and paid me for their paper,
most of them twice-for the year
past and the coming year, and
have all spoken kindly and en-
couragingly to me about the paper,
except one preacher beside Mr.
Rogers. The one alluded to is a
mulatto preacher name Moore who
has charge of the negro Baptist
church in Lexington Moore
came to me and said "Will you
allow a colored man to take stock
in your paper?" l said 81 would
rather have you than any white
man in town."
He has several times since met
me and volunteered to tell me he
-Ronld SnyH.-hut hes reeeptly 4e--
clined to answer any notices of his
Indebtedness that l have sent him,
that were of the same tenor as that
l sent to Mr.. Rogers which elected
the reply above, and which asked
them as kindly as could to notify
me that they would not pay me, if
they did not intend to do 80, 30
that l might close up their ac-.
counts on my book
Since that was written Rev.
Moore has again promised to
pay-Editor.
There are to-day more preach
ers in the State of Kentucky, and
in the United States, of various
denominations, who are working
to advance the circulation of the
Blade, and sending me their
money and encouraging letters,
than ever did these for any paper
published in the State ofKentucky,
religious or secular. Just as /
was sitting down to the table in
my family room, on Sunday eve
ming, to write this and other ar
ticles, Rev. A. Lusby of the Bap-
tist church who lives in Owen
county called to see me, to en-
courage me in my work with the
Blade. He is Prohibitionist and
volunteered to take some copies of
the Blade for distribution.
He is poor man, but will pay for
his paper. A little while before
he came 1 was walking on the
streets with Rev. Hiram Ford.
He is a we'll to do man. He is
a minister in the Christian church,
and was the Prohibition candi-
date for Congress from this dis
trict at the last election. He said
to me 81 have just been reading
the Blade on Sunday evening.
They say you are doing more
good than all the preachers in the
state" He has paid for his paper.
1 have lately printed a letter
from Josiah Harris, late Prohibi-
ton candidate for Governor of
Kentucky, and ex Chairman of
the State Prohibition Executive
Committee. He is a churchman
in full fellowship in some church
Il think the Christian. His let
ter ranked my services for the
Prohibition party with those of
Haddock and Gambrell, and
called upon all Probibitionists in
the United States, ana in Ken
lucky espe, tally, to support me.
never saw Chairman Dickie
of the National Executive Com
mittee but once. He asked me if
| had a Blue Grass Blade in my
pocket in less than ten seconds