Blue-grass blade., 1892-09-03

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magnificent woman, physically, men
tally and morally / had for COM
panion on that occasion at Cincin-
: --aati. The outrages and injustice to
which / have been subjected, in my
own state, have created sympathy
for me ard my cause that made the
editors and proprietors Of the ''Con-
testant," Prohibition paper of
Cleveland, Ohio, invite me to come
there and accept their assistance in
fshe editing of my paper. But Ohio
has Prohibition papers that are in
successful operation there, and my
aspiration is to fight it out in my
own state where the harvest is so
! great and the laborers so few, dom
-nated, and cursed by the whisky
traffic as we are. In Bourbon coun
Sy today, as will be told you by al
most any intelligent and dispassion-
ate citizen there, nearly the whole of
the county, outside of that part of the
Christian church in Paris that is
dominated by the rich whisky aris-
tocracy are my friends. l said in
one of my papers that if l had con-
tract to bore for hell fire l would rig
my derrick right in front of that
Christian church. A saloon keeper
has since then gotten him a home
light opposite that church. He calls
t ''Derrick cottage" and, | think, /
vas told that he had sent me word
% come and see him.
1t was, as l have intimated, an
easy thing for that church to array
.gainst me, an iniidel, the large ma
Jorlly of Democratic and Republican
papers that support the liquor traffic,
| though there are many Democratic
papers in the state that have all the
time stood by me. In Paris the Oh
y one of the three papers ofthe town,
all Democratic, that was opposed to
me, was one, the Kentuckidn- Ci{i-
i-en edited by Remington, a member
of the Paris Christian church, the
editor now being under three indict-
ments by Bourbon and Scott coun-
ties for lawless conduct toward Pro-
hibitionists.
Remington and Sweeney the pas
tor of the church seemed to me to
have been, and are generally under
stood by the people of Paris to have
been the most active men in the pros
ecution of me. My grandfather,
Barton W. Stone, was the founder of
the denomination to which the Chris
tian church at Paris belongs, and he
was baptized in Stone creek, at a
place that is within fifty feet of the
walls Of the Jail in which that
church put me. l was ordained to
the ministry of the Christian church
by Alexander Campbell who became
the most prominent figure in that
church, and, beginning a little be-
fore the commencement of the war,
1 devoted my life, until near the close
& 70 war, tn,preachirg the gospel,
and always without accepting any
thing for my services, preached
twice by special request for the
church in Paris that has since put
me in Jail.
But, as l have intimated the an
linus of that church can be more
clearly seen by it's dealing with Mr..
William T. Ficklen than in my case.
They put Mr.. Ficklen in Jail at the
same time that l was. He was the
only man in Paris that voted for Fisk
and Brooks, the Prohibition nom
inees, at the last Presidential cleo
tion though DR.. Brooks is known all
over Kentucky asa minister in the
Christian church. | met him at the
Cincinnati convention, and he told
me his sympathy had been with me
all through my Imprisonment by the
Paris church.
Mr.. Ficklen is sixty four years
old, and, for fifty two years has been
a member of the Paris Christian
church, and never before was any
charge brought against him by
church or state. There is not a
more peaceable and inoffensive maE
in Bourbon county than he is. A
strong young man is under indict-
ment by Bourbon county for per,
sonal assault upon Mr.. Ficklen.
Mr. Eicklen was put i'll iail for
having written to me that Chambers
the Mayor of Paris, was drunk on
the occasion of 4 certain council
meeting. Chambers was one of the
witnesses for the charch, against me-
lie stated on the witness stand that
he was member Of the Christian
church, and that he sold whisky by
the quart. Mr.. Ficklen told me that
one of his witnesses to prove that
| Chambers was drunk on the Occas-
ion that he alluded to in his lettcl
to me, was one OF the town council
of Paris. Mr.. Ficklen said TO me in
Jail that, to see if that councilman
would he willing to testify that
! Chambers was drunk on the Occas-
ion alluded 20, he (Ficklen) had
gone to that councilman and asked
him if he (the councilman) did not
tell him that Chambers was drunk
and disgrace to Paris. MIR. Flick
len said to me that the councilman
answered him that he had said so,
and that he (the councilman) then
added that Chambers was a disgrace
to Kentucky and to the United
States. know there will be those
who will say that | have not told the
whole story in ficklon's case, and
that man can not be put in Jail for
that. We have all heard that IA
nous story of the lawyer, during the
war, who said to his client in Jail
They can't put you in Jail for what
you have done;" but the only reply
that the client could make to his law
yer was "But ! am in Jail" | know
positively that Mr.. Ficklen was in
Jail as a prisoner with me, because !
saw the turnkey put him in, and both
the prisoner and the turnkey told me
that lie had been put in by the Par
is Christian church, and l believe
there are to-day in Paris n thousand
people who will say they believe
~ l. IL