Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-13

while a candidate, he had a regu-
larly equipped dram shop in a
ware room near the polls owned
and controlled by him.
Another elder has two drunken
sons in laws, one of whom had to
leave the state for many drunken
lawless acts.
One of the deacons al this time,
probably the most influential
member of the board in those days
was a wealthy wholesale whisky
dealer. He could drink as much
on the sly as any of them, and
was often drunk. In few years
his fortune was gone and his in
fluence went with his fortune.
One of his daughters married
drunkard; and another died in a
brothel and with family scattered,
fortune gone, his brothers in the
church deserted him, he took his
own life, aud filled suicides
grave.
Another deacon was a retail
LIQUOR dealer. He had a drunken
brother-in-law, who afterward
died in an inebriate asylum, and
a young son who was a gambler
and drunkard.
This deacon become rich, but
his fortune began to drift away.
and being hard pressed by one of
his fellow deacons. he was forced
into anIassignment, closed out, and
left the state a broken hearted
man.
Another deacon had a son
bright and promising, who turned
many thousands of his daddy's
dollars into the gambling hells.
Another deacon had an only
son who was a gambler and a
drunkard, and he was killed by
The elevator, in the wholesale
whisky warehouse of a brother
deacon of the Christian church.
Another deacon who sat in
judgment on good Bro. Marshall,
keeps his wine and whisky, by
the barrel, in his cellar. He has
been often seen drunk, and only
last year, while a candidate for
the Legislature he went from sa-
loon to saloon, and "set EN- up"
and drank with the boys. At the
Bourbon Hotel bar he gave a
carte blanche order to "let every
thing co." and night after night,
during this election, was spent in
drunken dehauchery by the men
and boys of the town; many OF
whom were members of this dea-
cons church.
Another deacon drank on the
sly, borrowed all the money he
could get from the brothers and
sisters, on straw paper, made an
assignment, paid about eleven
cents on the dollar and left the
state.
Another deacon who voted to
let Bro. Marshall slide. has never
been known to drink, but he has
son who is hummer
If all the short coming and
shady transactions with which
this deacon stands charged are
true, then the devil has a first
mortgage on on him, and if these
things OF which many of his own
brethren accused him be true, my
advice to the devil is not to fore
close, for there is danger of this
good deacon owning the devil,
and his kingdom. For verify ''for
ways that are dark and tricks that
are vain" this brother takes the
cake, oven and the whole outfit.
Another deacon was recently
before the Board for immortality
and improper relations with a
member of the choir. He was
asked to resign and has since left
the state.
Another deacon was until COM
PEELED to give up the business by
financial embarrassment, a whole
sale liquor dealer.
One of their prominent mem
bers, who for years has painted for
official honors in this church, and
who can sing, pray and exhort as
good as the best one, retails
whisky at his grocery, and has no
better customer than himself.
He is often drunk and fire
quently too full to act in his Of
fetal capacity as =
Another deacon was about to
be hauled into court for forging
and Misrepresentation, but the
matter was settled, and hushed up
by influential relatives.
We do not care to mention the
scandalous pickings and bicker-
ings of the small fry; for the old
rule holds good here, like rulers,
like people" We do not care to
mention the deacon and the elder
who do not recOnize one another
when they meet,nor the breach be :
tween two deacons, nor of the fail
ure of the two elders to obey the in
junction to dwell together in unity
The above are true and unvar-
nished facts warranted by one
who is a member, and with it
consistent Prohibitionist.
Well, l think that makes the
toughest church / ever heard of.