The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1894-06-12
In His Speech at Paris Owens
Arraigns Breckenridge,
AND ATTACKS HIM IN NO UN-
CERTAIN MANNER.

q Col. Owens had become exasperate
by Mr.. Breckinridge's attack on him
speech delivered at Versailles, an
came back in way that made tn
ears of Breckenridge Jingle, thong
he was many miles distant from tn
speaker Among other bitter things
said Col. Owens spoke as follows:
"This wordy WARRIOR" said he
Seems to be laboring under the i'm
preston that in his opening speech a
Lexington he had charged somebody
with slandering him. In my humble
Judgment he is the victim of delu
sion, inasmuch as he then stated tina
everything he had admitted in hii
testimony during the late unpleasant.
ness at Washington was true, and
anything else was false. Does he
think there is anybody in this country
possessed of sufficient ingenuity to
concoct story of shame and dishonor
that could add anything to that con-
fession OF debauchery, hypocrisy and
brazen infamy?
"When he got through confessing
there was nothing left to charge him
with, unless it be manliness or truth
fulness, and / have never heard that
it has occurred to anybody to charge
him with either. beg pardon, there
was one thing left; you know it has
always been the general understand
ing in this part of the country that
several years ago he robbed his clients
of ten, fifteen or twenty thousand dol
lars, and that to save him from expul-
sion from the profession he had dis
graced, his friends had passed the hat
around and raised enough money to
satisfy his clients. In that confession
at Washington, and under oath, he
distinctly denied the whole story. Ia
speech at Versailles on Friday last,
gentleman from Lexington, man
of high and unquestioned character,
charged that that denial was cold
blooded perjury.
"Yet in his speech at Midway on
the very next day, the verbose COL,
while attempting to be sarcastic about
Judge Kinkead's speech, forgot to
refer or to reply to that charge. In
that same speech he tried to make
capital out of the fact that / ran
against Joe Blackburn for Congress,
and short time afterwards supported
him for the Senate. Well, at that time
/ was under no obligations to support
Mr.. Blackburn, except such as arose
from the fact that regarded him as
the better man for the position, and
from the further fact that he was the
choice of the people / represented.
But there was one man who, in my
judgment, was under obligations to
support h i'm; for when that hat was
passed around to save your present
Representative from dishonorable ex-
pulsion from legal profession, Joe
Blackburn-poor man as he was
gave $500 to help him (and by-the-by,
1 understand The $500 has never been
returned). Yet during all that long
and memorable Senatorial struggle,
the outcome of which meant so much
to Blackburn, this man who is now so
full of love for his friends never open
ed his mouth OF lifted hand to aid
the man who stood by him in the hour
Of his need. l am not one of those
who want to be elevated by hanging
on to anybody's coat tails, even though
It be the coat tail of a President, and
It may be that / have not always
shown the same Difference for the
as this creature did when
ne took his mistress into the presence
If Luke Blackburn's widow and as
'ured her that that mistress was soon
% be his partner in those sweet do
nestle relations, outside of which he
las no lifev
"Having jumped himself out, in
ierce deatribe, he grew facetious and
declared that had no chance of cleo
ion, and that even if he were dead 1
ould not be elected. That may be
rue. But unfortunately for the good
Iame of our district and his family,
Ie is not dead, but alive and running
Or Congress, and so / have some