Blue-grass blade., 1894-04-01

Briggs. Now is an opportunity for us
who call ourselves Rationalists to show
to the world what we mean.
| The man who calls himself Rational.
ist now, and yet will fall in with the ig.
norant Christian hoodlum sentiment
that is reflected by such a paper
as the Lexington Daily Press, that
tries to crush a poor and fatherless
young woman to save burned old grey
headed hypocrite, whose life, for more
than a quarter of a centuary, has been
one unbroken lie, and with this hoodlum
gang will vote for Billy Breckinridge,
should keep his mouth shut after the elec-
ton, when he hears men of more courage
deploring the ignorance and supersti-
ton of the current Christianity, or the
Christianity of any age. feel no dis
position to gloat over the fact that Breck-
inridge has been so signally brought to
grief, and that in an intellectual tilt a
young woman has been able to lay the
great champion of tariff reform across
her knees and link into his exposed rear
with her slipper until he has used his
"silver tongue" to beg like cringing
coward.
The man who sought, and gained, the
bubble reputation at the cannon's mouth,
now pleads through his attorney, and
law-partner, Shelby, that he promised to
marry this woman because he was afraid
of her pop" and actually claims that
the woman seduced him. In the history
of civilization there has never been any
thing that approached this. Beecher
and Parnell have figured in scandals
allied in nature to this; but you may add
to these the "bacarat" scandal Of the
Prince of Wales, and the Senator Sprague
case, and the Carstang-Shaw case, and
the half dozen others i'll American his
tory, and the aggregation does not ap-
proach in atrocity and infamy the indi-
vidual exploits of Billy Brechinridge.
When Eve ate the apple Adam ran his
hand down in his breeches pocket, pulled
out his Barlow knife, cut him off a
chunk and chawed it, and said, like a
man, damned if he would not rather 20
to hell with his wife than to heaven
without her; and that sentiment from
then down until the time that Breckin-
ridge came on the stage in this role, has
been the prevailing one among men who
were worthy to be called men. But as
Raleigh threw his cloak into the mud
for the Queen to walk on, SO has this
man Breckinridge, who has spent great
part of his life in "bloviating" about
"Southern chivalry," been willing to
throw into the mud, and crush unde,
his remorseless heel, this young woman
whom he seduced, and of whose children
he became the father. while he had q
devoted living wife, in order that his
dainty Presbyterian feet, elected" from
in the New Jerusalem, might be saved
II f~o~,p the faS of
What then shall we say of Bill" Owens!
to the point. He is professional gam.
bier; a man who is sufficiently cold
blooded and deliberate to refrain from
drinking liquor in order that he might
win the money of those with whom he
plays cards. This is notoriously true
and is commonly said among his friend.
among whom is Editor Garrett of the
who scoots out when the grand jury Il
about gamblers.
have heard it said of him that he is az
infdel. do not know about it. If hi
is and has the manhood to say so,
would honor him for it, and he would
Il
Christians for their votes Just as much a:
Billy Breckinridge would.
Now what shall we say of Balm? Born
poor man in your midst, he has by in.
dustry and honestly gotten him a beauti
fel home in this city, and is Just as clear
as Billy Breckenridge is unclean
He is known and loved as man and
an orator, from ocean to ocean, and ha:
/ hao,. haoVI h., 10, tsv,.ae
as have heard Breckinridge and Owen.
together.
While those two men were bringing
upon Kentucky the disgraceful reputa
ton that it has, Balm has heroically
labored to counteract this reputation
and has stood among those at the very
head of the national councils of the Pro
hibition party. A more knighly man never
the substantial and genuine qualities o.
a man, he has among women and among
men, a courtliness of address, a snaviteI
in WOdO worthy of Chesterfield, and hi:
equal in all the highest and grandes
essential elements of Congressman
never went from Kentucky to Washing
ton.
i What is Democracy? 1t is an effet,
i'll morals the stencil of which offend.
high heaven, and the doom of which il
even now signed and sealed
} What is Republicanism? 1t is wors,
than highway robbery. 1t has robbed
the treasury of the United States Just a
literally and truly as Honest" Dick Tat,
robbed the treasury of Kentucky, and
worse than Tate, it has used this none,
1 ,,,Ia~ 1,a. nf
the elective franchise for partisan pur
poses.
What is Prohibition? 1t is, in it
moral aspects, the grandest political or
. ganization that the world ever saw, ant
in its financial aspects it is, by far, th'
wisest embodyment of political reform.
!, that has been proposed. There is moth
: ing sectional, sexual or racial about il
The points of the compass do not direc
its movements, and geographical line
no not bound its labors. The world i
its sphere and humanity is its people
Before the law, as we'll as in the home
IT not only puts woman as the peer O
man, but makes her the superior, if an
difference. 1t claims for the black maj
the same rights as for the white, am
, will take its presidential candidates frou
. the South just as soon as from the Nortl
which neither of the other parties vii
dare to do-and it asks no patronage fo
, a Federal soldier that it would not asl
for Confederate soldier.
!, l am All inhdel, open, avowed, defiant
E ask no honor and 10 emolument 70
myself. i have no interest at stakS
! the good of my fellow men. II
5 Ii not the remOtest chance that
t make any money out of this;
r other hand it will cost me someth.
: labor and money; for extend pure
S my own expense, to stump this di's~4.