Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-08-29
4 WOMAN TO keNrucklANs
Miss Mary psshA's rIsa for the Defeat O
Breckfnridge.


Mrs Mary Desha, sister OF colone'
Breckinridge's irst wife, has written an
open letter to the voters OF the Ashland
District, appealing to them to defea' net
former brotner-in-law. MIss Deshas iet'
ter was sent to this Confessional. and
In full is as follows;
ITO the Men and Women OF the Hiue
Grass:
81 have hesitated for many days before
writing this letter, because KNOW 'ne
prejudices Of Kentucky men ana tne'I
opinion that II q woman liIts her Voics
against the established order Oh iniquity
she is out Of her sphere. But the occasion
Is 30 grave that ! venture, even AT Tue
risk of shocking my friends, 10 tel you
some truths which II Is necessary to'
YOU 10 know, knowing well you VIII never
hear them from Kentucky men who have
been I'm washington. They are bound to
keen silence. either from the feeling OF
LOYALTY. which Is much stronger In man
than woman. or from a fellow feeling
that makes them wondrous Kind.
"rhat Colonel Breckenridge will be re-
turned 10 Congress has never for one mo-
ment entered my mind. The very thought
NJ n is an insult TO the state whose
boast has been that her men were brave
and her women virtuous. BY endorsing
Colonel Breckenridge you would accept hii
and Colonel Thompson's platform-that
oil men are Ibertines. IL all the men Of
tho state are llbertines, the women canno'
ha ,,ra ana your vote for him would be
an announcement 10 the world OF the un.
chastity of your women. j am not trou-
b,ed about his reelection, but am afraid
that the politicians will send some one
like INTO him. IL they succeed in re-
nominating him or some other immoral
man. Will the reputable portion OF the
&C immunity unite on a man, regardless
of politics who can lift the soiled banner
OF the Ashland District, cleanse It's stains
by a pure life and bear II with such honor
that we. who live in Washington and
have been deeply Inundated, may again
be able to say, with uphited heaus' we
are Kentuckians?
"The nlain truth Is that OF all the i'm
moral delegations in Congress that Of
Kentucky has the reputation of being
the worst. With the Taulbee and Breck-
inridge scandals and the low obscenity Of
Thompson you will not wonder at 1t.
what we need from the Ashland District
IL n clean, pure man, with brains enough
n know that it is n mans actions and
not his religious twaddle that make for
righteousness and not brains enough to
fool whole community for half GEN.
fury into thinking him Christian and
| n gentleman when he Is directly the re-
verse. See to ii II you must have allite-
ration on your banners that instead OF
.Breckinridge and brains you have a
name that will 20 we'll with morality
ITO the women of the Blue Grass
give my grateful thanks that tney nave
remembered my sister-her faithful, beau
tiful lfe-and have shown by every means
| in their power their appreciation or IL
and their detestation Of the man who
dishonored her while living, who has des-
ecrated her memory and disgraced her
children.
ITO the Confederate veterans j would
say-living she never forgot you; in per-
secution in trial, In exile, her own peo-
p,e were always remembered. You pass
ed resolutions of respect when she died
and followed her to the grave with almost
the honors given to soldier. Snow mat
your protestations were sincere by retir-
ing to private life the man who has COM
mitted the objectionable sin against her,
and by sending to Congress respecta-
BILE. reputable. honest man TO lift Ken
tucky-the State she loved so well-back
TO its proud place among it's sister States.
with pride in Kentucky's past, with
shame and confusion that even one man
Is left within her borders who is willing
to see her Inundated; with an abiding
trust in the final triumph of law and or
der. decency and morality in her midst,
7 am MARY DESHA,
"a citizen Of the Ashland District of Ken
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