Blue-grass blade., 1894-05-20
A MIDWAY, KY,
Woman Ever|astingIy Skins
Cousin "WiIIie.

Now that the famous, or rather infa
nous, Rreckinridge-Pollar suit ha
been decided, the verdict given, we will
gladly turn away from this dark pictur,
with all its foulness and polluting in
funces. Man is fallible, and therefore hi
Judgment cannot be infallible, or beyond
contradiction and criticism These ar,
those who would try to find some paliatior
for Breckinridge's crimes by saying tha
Judge Brady was partial and unjust il
his rulings. Be that as it may, there i.
a higher court and an all-wise and JUS
Judge, to whom this smooth tonguet
liar will have to render an account; ant
be that decree as it may, all will silen
be as to the justice of it.
The issue before the people of the
Ashland district today is not between
Breckinridge and Miss Pollard; but
rather between morality as against inn
morality, for has he not made his name
synonym for falseness and immortality
If it was not so small and contemplate
1t would be amusing to read the piece in
the Bourbon News" and copied by
several of our exchanges, trying to cry
out persecution, by saying that Mr.
Breckinridge had not been granted the
rights usually accorded the worst Grim
inal, "a fair impartial trial." as if he did
not select his own counsel. Perhaps
Miss Pollard suggested to Willie that he
had better secure the aid of the illus
trious Phil Thompson, and the dastardly
coward was so much afraid of that pistol
he dare not disobey.
No, Mr.. Breckenridge stands self con-
demned. He has admitted all that his
friends of the Ashland district had felt
sure he could successfully deny He
acknowledged on the witness stand that
he had lied time and again. For instance
swearing OH the witness stand that he
had never defaulted in professional
way so as to require the advancement
from personal friends to save him from
prosecution, or. in other words, from
the penitentiary. That he did become
so involved has been matter of public
notoriety in Kentucky and all of the
older men know it too And yet he
swears to point blank lie that rightly
ought to land him behind prison bars
for the rest of his life, where he could
have time and space for repentance for
the meanness he has been doing all his
life and so adroitly hidden till now.
Are the fathers and husbands, going
to say, by their votes, to the younger
men of our fair land, go default, lie steal
and seduce, flor it has been proven that
he has been guilty of ALL, and we will
stand by you andiuphold YOU in it all?
Men of the Ashland district cannot
believe you are so lost to all that is good
and true as to be willing that this shall
go down to other generations, and be
made fact in history, that cur fathers
deliberately voted for man that has so
shamefully outraged the very name of
decency. Can it be that this is the kind
of man you are willing to send to Con-
gress? Some are saying and trying to
prove that Mr.. Owens is as bad as Breck-
inridge. If he is there is one virtue he
possesses over the smooth tongued liar,
that of not trying to pose as an "angel
of light" make long prayers and honey
coated Sunday School speeches to inno-
cent pure children.
Yes, Mr. Owens is a gambler, and
God knows that is bad enough. They
say "he does not gamble now through
policy" but he had better cease doing
wrong from policy even if there is no
higher motive 1 asl. any right think
ing, fair minded man to honestly decide
which is worse, gambling or open con-
tlnued adultery. 1t was not only with
Miss Pollard, for every club that he has
ever been member of has felt sure of his
business in this respect, and all this
while his pure true wife still lived and
clung to him for that love and protection
that he had sworn at the marriage altar
to give.
Men let me beg of you, think before
you vote, and don't, don't for Gods
sake, your children's and your country's
sake, wilfully put this blot on our fair
land. The words of Capt R. H Fitz-
hugh, a prominent writer and thinker,
have the right ring to them when he
says, 81 am and have been friend to Mr..
Breckenridge, and if thought he would
take my advice would say to him, now
you cannot afford to ask your friends to
drag themselves in the mire by casting
their votes for you" He says he is sur
prised that Mr.. B. should ask his friends
to indorse his immortality, and thus say
to their sons that morality counts for
nothing.
And Capt. J. R. Berry says, 81 am
Confederate and have always voted for
Breckenridge but he has left me no ex-
cuse for doing so now, he has admitted
every thing that the people of the Ash
land district promised months ago to
wait for him to deny. A man that will
lie and impose on his friends as he has
on Mrs. Blackburn, is not the man to
represent ME in Congress" Or will you
say, as some do, that you will vote for
him no matter what he does, or like Will
S. Marshall, well known publisher,
gives his reason for wanting to send
him back to Congress, that he will be
ostracized socially and will have time to
attend to business. Is this the kind of
a man you want to represent you in
Congress; one SO vile and immoral that
society utterly ignores him?
What influence do you suppose he will
have i'll Washington, where his own tes-
was given and it was seen how
he lied i'll every point? Men who ex-
pect to vote stop and think what an
awfully serious thing this is, and of the
good men whom you have honOred and
who have honored you by being true to
the trust imposed i'll them, and don't,
don't disgrace their memory and your
selves by voting for man so stepped in
sin as the smooth, slick-tongued Billy b.
ONLY A WOMAN
Mrs. Sarah Sedgewick, of Mem