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Blue-grass blade., 1892-01-09

"Unstable as water, thou shalt
not excell." The few grammatical
lapses are all you wrote them. !!
was 81 years old the other day,
and 1 would talk to Methuseleh
just like l am going to talk to
you. You are making a heroic
effort to fool yourself, and may
succeed at it, but you don't fool
me worth a cent.
If you had succeeded as we'll as
you would have been glad to do,
when you went into the bar-room
scheme you would now have more
money than Russell Sage, Rookie
felter, and Jay Astorbilt, all put
together, and you would be big
ger "shark" than the one that
swallowed my friend Jonah.
Your Temperance" work does
not amount to hill of beans.
When you stopped the traffic
in your precinct by an act of the
Legislature" and "after contest
for years stopped it in your county
town." you did just what your
old church "brethren the hardest
customers" and your old bar
keeper chums wanted 20 to do, and
used you for cats paw to do for
them, because you wanted the job,
and they laughed and said you
were making fool of yourself
when you were doing it.
Your bar-keeper chums wanted
the business in the country all
stopped, because they wanted a
monopoly of it in the town, and
they wanted the business in town
because town is the best place to
do any kind of business except
farming. Your church brethren
were liars and hypocrites, of whom
you as a bar-keeper, were the ring
leader, and they wanted the liquor
business in town, first because
that was the place they could
drink it with the least exposure,
and where they would get it fixed
up in better style than any little
cross road shebang could do it;
second, because they were afraid
to have drunken people around
them day and night, in the
country, where they had no police
to protect them; and third, because
they could make show of being
moral and religious by voting
against whisky, as they claimed
they were doing when they voted
it out out of your precinct and
voted it into town, where they
could get a better chance al it by
telling their wives and children
they had to 60 to town "On bust
ness" when the business was to get
as much whisky into their outlets
as they could get home sober
with after; riding some miles in
the fresh air.
Blue-grass blade., 1892-01-09

A thousand of the best Prohibi-
tionists in state, can not drive
the meanest man among them out
of the party. He will stick to the
party and claim that he is right
and all the others are wrong.
They may occasionally squabbIe
over woman suffrage, but each
side will try to show itself right
on the suffrage question by trying
to beat the other side in devotion
to Prohibition.
A third great stimulus to Pro-
hibitionists is the interest mani
tested by different cities to have
the Prohibition party to hold its
coming Presidential convention
with them.
The cities that wanted our con-
vention were st. Louis, Lincoln,
Hartman, Cleveland, Indianapo-
lis, Cincinnati. Atlanta, Chicago,
New York and Baltimore.
The people who represented
these various cities, were not, by
any means simply the Prohibi-
tionists or temperance workers of
those cities, but their Boards of
of Trade, Chambers of Commerce,
and Mayors.
Hartman, town built by Pro-
hibitionists and run by Prohibi-
tionists with not saloon in it,
claimed the convention, on that
ground, and said it would put up
a building to hold 5000 people,
for the special benefit of the con,
vention, but Hartman was COM
pletely showed under.
Atlanta's representative in a
fine but funny speech offered the
excellence of its beer as an induce
ment for the convention.
st Louis got it, and will furnish
a hall that will hold
1000 people, and give $1,000 to
pay the incidental expenses of the
convention, such as an increase OF
the telegraph service for the
newspaper reporters.
There will hardly be less than
10000 Prohibition visitors there
from all over the United states.
/ intend to be there and to
take my wife, and thousands of us
will 60 not only to witness the
process of making a Presidential
candidate, and to hear the speeches
that will be made, but to see the
famous Prohibition men and
women, that we have been reading
about.
There will be 1901 delegates
Every fellow will want to be a
delegate from his state, and every
fellow except me will lie about it,
and say he does not want to be a
delegate.
I say right now that I do wanl
to be a delegate, and 1 want to get
our Presidential and Vice Presi.
dental timber out of st. John,
Dickie, John A. Brooks and
George A. Balm, or Demorest.
I believe the woman suffrage
question will be left to the de-
Blue-grass blade., 1892-01-09
How Whisky put q Kentucky
Governors son I'm the Poor
House.

The last part of this story 1
have never heard until about an
hour before / sit down to write it.
l was "a years old the other
day. when / was A years old, my
sister, the eldest child of my pa
rents, married the son of a Gov
ernor of Kentucky. Soon after
they were married they went on
a visit to the Island of Cuba,
E~hich inlthose day was long
way off, While there my sister
wrote me the first letter l ever
got, and l suppose my mother
read it to me at the time and ex-
planned it as far as / was able to
comprehend it. She read it to
me after l got to be older, and I
remember that she cried when
she read it, for my sister died
there only a few months after she
was married. Her body was
embalmed and put into a leaden
coffin inside of another one, and
perhaps the most remote memory
of my life is the great number of
men it took to carry her coffin to
our family burying ground at our
country home, where pine trees
have grown to be very tall that l
saw planted near the stone. on
which was inscribed a beautiful
epith which tells of the romantic,
but sad circumstances of her
death.
That letter to me is written on
the peculiar lace edged paper that
was used to write valentines on
fifty years ago. 1t was written
on Christmas day. l am writing
on Christmas week a half century
after. The letter said she was
sitting in a hotel with the window
open and without any fire, and it
told me about what they call they
''pines" that they were eating
every day.
They were then almost un-
known in Kentucky, and were
what we call pine apples now.
That letter was kept by my
mother in a trunk that was
covered all over with raw hide
that had the hair on it. There
were in that trunk elegant bridal
dresses of my dead sister and some
handsome clothes of my onlder
brothers, who died when they
were little fellow, and they We're
all burned up when our large old
country home was destroyed by
fire during the war.
My sisters husband was a
lawyer. and has for years been a
prominent judge in California. /
have not seen him for more than
forty years. He had a brother
who was also a lawyer. That
brother was very bright, but had
a dreamy poetic air about him.
He was very tall and slim. When
| was about twelve years old.
beautiful sweet young woman said
to him one day, you look so
much like a poet" He said very
gravely. 81 CUES it must be Long
fellow" Not long afterward he
married that young woman. She
was a beauty and a marvel of ac-
complishment, and wonderfully
sweet. They said at the time,
langhingly, that he would drink a
little too much sometimes, but it
was thought to be but a little
"wild oats" that he was sowing,
and it was thought the pride he
Blue-grass blade., 1892-01-09

toxicating fluid, eve- ateehfist-
mas times, it would seem, l think,
a little hard to kill me for it when
/ had not said it.
/ knew all the time that what
Bro. Craddock says in his paper
was true and that what these Lex
ington papers and Cincinnati
papers said about it was not true,
but 1 had no chance to defend
myself, or to correct it, without
using the Judges name, and 1
was not honing after martyrdom
that bad.
They have given me a lot of
taffy about being "bold' and
fearless" and "heroic" and all of
those things, but Col. Craddock
gets away with me. l would not
dare print that Judges name like
he did. 1t is as much as 1 will
dare to do even to print the above
from the K-C., with the Judges
name left blank.
Blue-grass blade., 1892-01-09

would naturally feel in being the
son OF a Governor would bring
him around all right, and that he
would "settle down. all right as
soon as he was married.
1 never knew the sequel of
that marriage until a little more
than a hour ago, and l will tell
you about his wife-before / tell
you what came of that marriage.
When l was about fourteen
years old there came to this
country from England a gentle
man and his wife and five daugh-
tiers. / never saw the parents.
The mother and five daughters
were splendid vocal and instru-
mental musicians and the family
gave concerts. The five sisters
were said by everybody nearly,
that saw them and personally
knew them, to be the most beau
tiful and accomplished five sisters
that they had ever seen, / knew
them all, and they were as lovely
as they were pretty.
My first cousin married the
eldest sister who was the pianist.
The poetic looking lawyer.
who drank a little, but whose pride.
as the son of a Governor, was to
save him, married the one who
sang the most beautifully. They
were married about thirty years
ago. [ have never seen her hus-
band since they were married.
Years after they were married
l met her. There were some
ladies with me who bad known
her before she was married. She
was still beautiful and swest BUT
there was just a little touch Ofsad-
ness in her appearance We
asked her to sing. She sat down
to a piano and sang,
al can not sing the old songs
1 sang long years ago
For heart and voice would fail me
now,
And foolish tears would flow "
We knew she meant just what
the words said.
Just before 1 began to write this
piece 1 heard from her again for
the first time Cor years.
In drunken fit he had fallen
out of door and crippled himself
so that he will have to walk on
clutches all the rest of his life.
He has a daughter that is a
beautiful woman. He was 80
cruel to his daughter that his son
drove his father away.
The daughter is now happily
married to a nice man who loves
her. The son has taken his
mother and gone off to a large
city. She and her SON support
themselves-she giving music les
sons.
She sends money when she can
spare it to her husband.
One of the ladies who was with
me when we heard her sing tina,
song. told me just a little while
ago, that the man bad been sent
to the poor house and that he would
sometimes come crippling into
the town, and beg ten cents, and
buy whisky with it.
My family call the poor wife
cousin.
] / have some gentlemen kinfolk:
who are related to her about al
much as 1 am. They are the
most devoted Christians On,
was a first honor man at colleg,
and has been hOnored by his
countrymen. They are all Demo.
1 Gratis, and have a great deal O
sympathy for that poor woman
It's the sam cordial sympathy
that the Republican party has fol
Prohibition.
| A sympathy that prays one way
and votes the other.
| None ofthese gentlemen kin.
folks will read my paper. because
it is so irreligious. They say they
love me personally, but they think
it so strange that 1 am not q
Christian.
| l would rather love my fellow
men, like Abou Ben Addam did
than to love God as they do.
Blue-grass blade., 1892-01-09

Lexington is the county town"
of my county, and you can't buy
a drink of liquor in the county
except in Lexington. I never
voted against liquor selling in the
country, in my life. Didn't have
to do it. The Lexington saloon
men, and the country Democratic
and Republican "Christians" at
tended to that for me.
All 1 had to do was go ahead
and pillow my mule, Balaam, and
the saloon keeper of Lexington,
aud the country "Christians" all
knocked the stufing out OF selling
whisky in the country, and I
didn't even think it necessary for
me to go to the polls to see about
it.
But two years ago at my pre-
cinct-"Dog Fennel," the most
famous country precinct in Amer
ica-a deacon in the Christian
church, who was a Democratic
candidate for Office, against an
other Democrat who was a Sum
day-school Superintendent, fur
nished thirteen gallons of whisky,
and opened free bar-room' in
an unmentionable out building,
made the niggers drunk, voted
them for himself, and beat the
other fellow who didn't have ANY
whisky, about as badly as if he
had been one of these blatant,
blab-mouthed Prohibitionists.
You ask me to "inform myself
from proper sources" I have
done SO. Your official agents, DR.
Alexander and Mr.. Dudley Lo-
gan organized your party here
am farmer, and rely upon farm
ing for my living. Your scheme is
principally to benefit the farmers
You want to do it by formingjust
such ring as made the money
sharks" in other departments o.
business. am opposed to thu
scheme because il is selfish, mis-
anthropic and directly in violation
of every principle of true religion
and of good politics.
You can never accomplish you
purpose, because farmers as /,
class, have not the brains to do it
and because your member
are scattered over too great al
area for rapid conference, ant
because the interest of the AL
lance man in one section is nat
urally opposed to that of an AL
lance man in another section
AMI Alliance man in Kentuck,
wants hemp as high as POSSIBLE
because he makes hi
living by producing it. An AL
lance man in Wisconsin or Min
neasota wants hemp as low as pos
sible, because he can get chea]
binder Irvine, and an Alliance mai
in Louisiana wants hemp cheap s.
he can have cheap bagging for hi
cotton. The Kentucky Allianc'
man wants tobacco as high as pos
sible and every other Allianc'
man wants to squirt around tn
greatest possible amount of it a
the smallest possible cost.
The Louisiana Alliance mai
wants r-.hiGh.=kpl.apY 4the
j. Ak 10 man wants t low.
i Edr party-Or whatever yol
call, it if it is not a party-is nov
in the last stage of the gallopin,
consumption, and will barely,
at all, live to see the presidentia
election in '92.
Your idea of Womns Rights
as portrayed in the postscript
touching. By giving a woman Al
office you mean you will pay he
to run a typewriter if she will d
it better and cheaper than a man
and be a pretty thing to look al
with remote possibilities of matri
mony.
i / want women to note becaus
they have more sense and bette
morals than men.
Blue-grass blade., 1892-01-09

much to the ease with which we
could prevent violations of the
law if concessions to the habits
and wishes of a portion of our
people could be made. AS a rule
sumptuary legislation is not pop
ular.-Abram s. Hewitt, Demo
cratic Mayor of New York City.
Then with Mr.. Blaine's influence
as Secretary of State acting as adj
vance agent for the National Beer
Brewers Association to extend
the beer business into South
America, on the Republican side,
and w. c. P. Breckenridge,
Kentucky's silver tongue politi-
clan, who voted in the fiftieth con-
gress to institute and maintain the
original package bill, that liquor
might be transported and sold in
unbroken packages in low a and
Kansas against the wishes of the
best people of that State, coupled
with other notorious defenders of
the liquor traffic, such as Roger
@. Mills, Congressman from the
Lone Star State, and John G. Car.
Isle, United States Senator from
Kentucky, who is known to be a
drunkard, on the Democratic
side-with all of this mighty in
fiuence arrayed against all moral
and spiritual advancement of the
people, l fail to understand how
any man can hope to See any radi-
cal change come through either
of the old parties.
Under the cordial sympathy of
the Republican administration for
fiscal year ending May LIST, 1891,
the beer production tor that time,
as given by the official record of
the internal revenue department,
and reproduced by the brewers
and MASTERS directory, as 30, O2l,
O79 barrels. or a net increase of
twelve per cent over the previous
year. These are not the figures
of some Prohibitionist compiled
for the purpose of alarming the
public. "although the situatian is
alarming" but the figures of men
holding office under the present
administration, the accuracy of
whose report we have no reason
to discredit. For if there is any
one department of government
more likely to be correct then an
other, l would judge that it would
be the one through which the
largest amount of revenue is de-
rived. Therefore we accept it as
correct.
Daviess county, "this State,'
alone boasts of the production of
1875, 900 barrels of whisky last
year. Add to this the production
of Fayette, Bourbon, Anderson,
Madison, Franklin, Jefferson, and
others of less production, than
you can begin to imagine "per-
haps for the very first time in
your life," how deeply intrenched
is this liquor leech, behind all
Blue-grass blade., 1892-01-09

every reason why large beer
maker should vote the Republican
ticket-N. Y. Mail and Express.
These are only a few samples of
such declarations as have been ut
tered against the prohibition of
the American saloon system, and
consequently against the moral
and spiritual advancement of CIV
ilization by the bone and sinew of
the Republican party. And while
that party stands convicted as the
enemy of every principle that has
a tendency to elevate society, mot
by the testimony of the Prohibi-
ton party alone" but by the
virtue of the testimony recorded
against it, as given through its
own representatives, still there are
men who are posing as the very
keystone in the arch of Christi
anity in Lexington and elsewhere.
who are waiting for other wit
nesses to testify before they accept
it as true. l have enough testi-
mony in my possession to fill an
an ordinary newspaper, all of
which favors the saloon, personal
liberty ,anarchism Rum ROmanism
and Rebellion, the devil and every
thing else.
Have the Democrats done any,
thing that would recommend them
"as party" to the oversight of
the churches of this country?
Listen to few samples:
The success of Harrison is in
no wise a thing to,alarm the liquor
men.-Jno. M. Atherton, presi-
dent of the National Liquor Deal
ers' Association.
Law UNNECESSARILY interfering
with the habits and customs OF
any people which are offensive to
the morals and sentiments of the
civilized world, and which are
consistent with good citizenship
and the public welfare. are unwise
and vexatious. President Grover
Cleveland accepting the Demo-
cratic nomination.
Mr.. Cleveland ia also credited
with saying:
There is no pleasanter sight
than to see hundreds of Germans
; with their wives and children in
a beer garden listening to the
music and enjoying themselves as
; good law abiding citizens.
But we desire to impress our
friends with the fact that theil
only salvation from absolute pro-
hibition is by voting solid from
constable to president for the
Democratic candidates.-South-
West, Democratic liquor organ.
I have come to the conclusion
that the law should be modified
so as to permit the selling of beer
and light wines ON Sunday after.
noon, in such places as shall be
specially licensed for that purpose
In view of the fact that a large
portion of our population comes
from countries in which the Sab
bath afternoons, is used for recre-
alton as well as rest, and that the
privilege of taking light refresh
ments in social gatherings il
Blue-grass blade., 1892-01-09
The Kentuckian.Cit Com
menis upon that Judge who
was Going to Kill me.

DID MOORE LIE SHARPLY?-In
the war of words between editor
Charley Moore, of the Blue Grass
Blade. and Judge -, one of
the nominees Of the Lexington
Democracy, Judge accused
Moore of having said that every
man on the Democratic ticket
would take drink. Moore con-
tended that he had simply said he
believed they would take a drink.
We lad curiosity to look over
the disputed article, and extract
as follows:
81 will state what I 6eliere to
be facts about them. x x Every
man on that ticket will take a
drink of whisky"
There is so much said in the
space the stars indicate that Judge
was naturally in error in
accusing Moore of lying by saying
he knew every man would drink.
Blue-grass blade., 1892-01-09

In the above account taken
from the Kentuckian-Cit /
have been careful to have my
printers substitute blank where
that paper used the Judges name,
as he has notified me he would
kill me if his name ever appeared
again in my paper
Of course 1 would not dare
again to criticise the Judge
alluded to in the Kentuckian-
Citizen, but 1 would like to sug-
gest as an humble private citizen,
to any other Judge in Kentucky
who proposes to form himself into
a close corporation to discharge
the functions of judge, jury, wit
ness and executioner all by him
self, that the public would feel
safer if he would be as careful as
he can, without too great incon-
venience to himself, to get the
testimony in the case as near
right as it is practicable for him
to do.
While, of course, it would have
been entirely right for the Judge
to kill me, if 1 had insinuated
that he, a leading Kentucky Dem
nnln1iaun0|itiGiap, would. under
Blue-grass blade., 1892-01-09

against us in reply to L. L. John
ston, in No. %. and quotation
from the Shelby Sentinel, to the
contrary Notwithstanding.
l know whereof 1 speak, and in
all kindness, ask you to inform
yourself from proper sources, and
do us simply justice. My oldest
son and youngest daughter, each
editing a paper happens to know
that the Associated Press belongs
body and soul to the money
sharks, and will not tell the truth
against their interest. l am a
Democrat, and love the term
Democracy; ruled by the people
but when my people leave and go
after other strange gods, then 1
am free. No, Bro. Moore, we are
no Third Party-are free to act as
we please.
AS my party-Democracy-is
being swallowed up by the
whisky god, that let's me out. In
proof that we-The Alliance-are
no Third party, l will give you a
point from our ritual.
Before taking the obligation,
and as part of the contract, each
candidate is assured that it will
not conflict with the freedom OF
their political or religious views.
A few extracts from our official
organ-Economist. Washington,
d. Gin proof of lies of the As
ISOLATED Press and others that are
subsidized. National meeting
indianapolis. "Take it all in all
this has been one of the most i'm.
portant meeting ever held by any
body. Thirty-four states were
represented, and all was peace
and harmony; no discord, no con.
tention.
The partisan press seems to be
most exercised over the attitude
of the body towards a third, OF
new, party. There was no such
thing mentioned in the body, mol
was the subject discussed in any
shape"
We believe that our demand.
are more important than party
utilization, and whenever it may
become necessary we will advo
Gates a new party, or adopt any
other laudable means to secure
the demands.
1 now believe every word yor
said about the Lexington gang
Another one of them ought to b
in the Penitentiary for his threat
against you.
It's truth that hurts, and nom
but degraded characters will resor
to bluff to keep their depravet
nature hid from the public.
j. L. HENRY.
P. s. We are consistent OF
Womans Rights, as the Allianc
makes no difference in the dis
tribution of Office on account o
sex, and almost the last resolution
adopted at Indianapolis was as fol
lows. "'That the Nationa
Farmers Alliance and industrial
Union. in Supreme Council as
sembled. cordially approves of tn
general purpose of the "Woman
lCAristian Tempnnnnees& laianrAal
WISHES tne mssnbers OF that or
ganization a heartfelt God-spee'
in their brave pursuit of the right
tousness which exalteth nation.